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Spy pictures: 2010 BMW X5 with twin turbo V8

  • 27-06-2008 11:48AM
    #1
    Moses7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭


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    first pictures of the 2010 BMW X5 with twin turbo V8 undisguised on the Nürburgring.

    Rumor is that the engine is 4.4-Liter 408 HP Twin-Turbo V8 from X6 that should offer serious competition to Porsche Cayenne Turbo.

    Click here for the pictures


Comments

  • #2
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,740 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Doesn't really look too different to the current one


  • #3
    Moses7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭Moses7


    exhaust pipes look different. also bumpers and front lights.

    I guess the main difference is the power.

    I would have hoped for more changes.

    It looks too similar to the one they started with.


  • #4
    JHMEG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,684 ✭✭✭JHMEG


    With oil at $142 a barrel, GM ramping down production of this kind of vehicle as a result, one would wonder how big the market is for 4.4 twin turbo SUV.


  • #5
    Cionád
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭Cionád


    JHMEG wrote: »
    With oil at $142 a barrel, GM ramping down production of this kind of vehicle as a result, one would wonder how big the market is for 4.4 twin turbo SUV.

    I heard some girl(in Ireland) got a €110,000 land rover for her 16th birthday this week :eek:, so there will always be some market anyway.

    How much will that have depreciated in the first year, after which she'll be able to drive the damn thing.


  • #6
    TheBazman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭TheBazman


    Cionád wrote: »
    I heard some girl(in Ireland) got a €110,000 land rover for her 16th birthday this week :eek:, so there will always be some market anyway.

    How much will that have depreciated in the first year, after which she'll be able to drive the damn thing.

    I'm sure it will look good in the drive, or while she is sitting in it with the engine off making vroom vroom noises. What 16yr old girl if asked what 100k motor she would like would pick a land/range rover?


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  • #7
    keefg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,187 ✭✭✭keefg


    TheBazman wrote: »
    I'm sure it will look good in the drive, or while she is sitting in it with the engine off making vroom vroom noises. What 16yr old girl if asked what 100k motor she would like would pick a land/range rover?


    Maybe Daddy owns a Land / Range Rover dealership? ;)

    And it was his choice that she got this motor at considerably less (to him) than the forecourt price.


  • #8
    cashmni1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 629 ✭✭✭cashmni1


    keefg wrote: »
    Maybe Daddy owns a Land / Range Rover dealership? ;)

    And it was his choice that she got this motor at considerably less (to him) than the forecourt price.
    I saw that in the paper alright, but Daddy owns 2 Italian resturants in Kilkenny. (They must be busy resturants).
    The whole party was telivised for MTV's sweet 16 or something, show.
    Maybe Land/Range rover used this "party" as an advertising scheme?? Who knows.


  • #9
    JHMEG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,684 ✭✭✭JHMEG


    Cionád wrote: »
    I heard some girl(in Ireland) got a €110,000 land rover for her 16th birthday this week :eek:, so there will always be some market anyway.
    I know there'll always be some market, but jeez that market must be getting seriously small. How small does it have to get before it's not worthwhile...


  • #10
    Zube
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭Zube


    JHMEG wrote: »
    I know there'll always be some market, but jeez that market must be getting seriously small...

    I haven't seen any signs of the market for Stupid Unnecessary Vehicles slowing down. Porsche make more from their tarted up Toerags than the rest of their range put together.


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