@NosherN Your car looks fabulous. No wonder that you are so pleased with it!
The colour choice for us was an even harder decision than the engine variant! Thankfully, I’ve been able to see X5s in the flesh in every colour (including some Individual ones – but £5k? 😱). I was originally set on Marina Bay Blue, as it’s unique to the V8 X5’s, and when I saw that colour under showroom lighting (on an XM & M5) it looked magnificent. However, the M60i that I had for 3 days was in Marina Bay Blue and it was a lot flatter in natural light (much less sparkle) and really showed the dirt badly.
The dealer had a Manhattan X5 in their new car storage car park which I initially assumed was an individual colour, as it looked more bronze than green, but on a second visit I realised that it was Manhattan. My wife fell in love with it immediately, but I took some convincing, partly because I hadn’t even considered it, as the colour reproduction on the configurator is nothing like the actual colour and makes it look horrible. Nobody would order it without seeing it in the flesh, which makes it quite rare, especially as there are only 350 M60i’s on the road in the U.K. and I suspect that the vast majority are black, white, grey or blue! I kept going back to look at the car in different lighting conditions, and what swung it for me was that it’s very chameleon like, looking khaki, bronze, gold and even grey, depending on the lighting conditions, and has a load more sparkle to it (I guess all the colour flecks in the paint are what make it change colour). I think it looks more classy than the Marina Bay Blue but, like yours, we’ve gone for the 22” gloss black alloys which, along with the black shadow line pack and gloss black M door mirrors also make it look a bit sporty as well 😂
Here’s a US M60i in Manhattan with black alloys;
EDIT – BTW, how do you find the tyre wear with the 22” alloys? The M60i comes with Active Rear Steering (four wheel steering) as standard, which I wouldn’t have paid for as an option as I think it will cause the rear tyres to wear quicker. The largest I’ve had before is 20” and I’m wondering how many miles I might get out of them.
