@kezo I test drove a BMW X5 40d the other day. Nice car and very quiet, even with 22” alloys. It was a used one but still £50k. The guy tried to talk me into a new one, but even with the VAT knocked off it was still almost £70k. I just don’t do enough mileage these days to warrant that sort of outlay (decent cars are just ludicrously expensive these days). Another spanner in the works was that the 40d is more expensive than the new 50e X5 which, although a PHEV (which, as you know, I’m not keen on) has a realistic EV range of around 50 miles and it’s paired with the legendary BMW 3.0 six cylinder petrol engine, giving a combined power output of almost 500 bhp. I’ve since watched a number of YouTube reviews of the 50e and they all say that it’s absolutely superb. Back to the drawing board
Thats the problem, they are alot of money 10ish thousand miles per year. Not like the olde days where grandad would rock up in a Jag and do no more than a couple thousand milese ayear – How times have changed! The other thing on my mind, is the X5 is perhaps to big in the sense some parking spaces round here, Ican struggle to get out of the Tucson if a car is parked in the next bay, if out on my own.