How many miles will a BMW 5 series 530D do?

[Paddy]

FFS not another aging boring BMW on the road.
Get a Citroen C6. A bit different, comfy as hell, great motorway cruiser and cheap as chips.
Oh and according to a mate who has one, the diesel 2.7 is brilliant.

Not forgetting that the C6 has great off road capabilities unlike the BMW. There was a T/C Jeremy Clarkson comparison and the C6 knocked the spots of the BMW

[sasguru]

On a side note, does Swindon really have so many businessmen driving BMW's?

Swindon is famous for unemployed chavs who live in starter homes and drive beaten up old BMWs, didn't you know?

[sasguru]

Not forgetting that the C6 has great off road capabilities unlike the BMW. There was a T/C Jeremy Clarkson comparison and the C6 knocked the spots of the BMW

Off road? really? i wouldn't have thought either car was built for that.

[original PM]

it was to do with using it is a camera platform for horse racing - apparently they have used citreons for years due to the pnuematic suspension

so not really off road but more grass tracking

[sasguru]

it was to do with using it is a camera platform for horse racing - apparently they have used citreons for years due to the pnuematic suspension

so not really off road but more grass tracking

I've been in my mates C6 - it really is like a magic carpet, not sure if has the old hydro-pneumatic suspension though as on the DS. Didn't go on motorway, but on urban crappy potholed roads its great.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I've been in my mates C6 - it really is like a magic carpet, not sure if has the old hydro-pneumatic suspension though as on the DS. Didn't go on motorway, but on urban crappy potholed roads its great.

You wanna go and setup another thread about Citroens FFS. I can't stand french cars and I wouldn't go near one with a barge pole.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Not forgetting that the C6 has great off road capabilities unlike the BMW. There was a T/C Jeremy Clarkson comparison and the C6 knocked the spots of the BMW

I'm not after an off road car.....

[original PM]

You wanna go and setup another thread about Citroens FFS. I can't stand french cars and I wouldn't go near one with a barge pole.

I'm not after an off road car.....

picky fecker aren't you!!!

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I am gonna be the first CUK BMW experiment.

Gonna go and view it this week, get it checked by BMW. Will let you know how it goes.

[OwlHoot]

You wanna go and setup another thread about Citroens FFS. I can't stand french cars and I wouldn't go near one with a barge pole.

Tell me about it, if they're anything like those ghastly rattly underpowered and insufferably noisy 2CVs, which a friend recently gave me a mercifully short lift in.

Why on Earth would anyone want to drive bangers like that these days, when there are so many quieter and more reliable and cheaper cars around?