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Old 05-23-2007, 01:02 PM
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My new BMW company car finally arrived at the dealership and I am now facing an agonising wait for the plates to come. Anyhow I managed to take these pictures with my mobile phone, just for pain relief. My car happened to be the only E61 on the lorry today, all the other cars were X5s...

LCI 520d 150 hp business pack - Sapphire black - black Dakota sport seats - alu trim - Sat Nav Pro - HUD

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Congratulations Fox72, welcome to the e61 club.

I hope you but not specially your company enjoy it !

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congrats and enjoy
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Congratulations on the new ride! Hang in there, and you'll be enjoying it before too long.

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Congrats on your vehicle Enjoy.
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Wow! Congrats!

Does your new car have xenon ? OR does all the LCI lights look that way ?
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Great News - you're going to love it - more than you know.
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My Ride: F11 520d Touring Imperial Blue, sports automatic, VDC, black leather sports seats, M Sport steering wheel, HiFi Professional, 18" 328 wheels, Xenon, PCD, electrical tow hitch etc... E87 120dM -10, Titanium silver, xenon, PDC, Hifi, 18" wheels etc. E87 120d M sport- 08, Le Mans blue, xenon, PDC, Hifi, 18" wheels etc. Sold: BMW 525dT Deep sea blue, xenon, PDC, leather, Hifi, USB etc.
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Congrats, but your car has 163 hp and not 150, unless you down trim them in Belgium.
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Many thanks for all those nice words. The headlamps are regular halogens - no xenons. All LCI cars appear to have these fashionable lit circles around the centre.
It is 150 hp instead of 163 hp to avoid a higher tax level. But there is no doubt the car will be remapped to 185 hp after the break-in period.
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Originally Posted by gorban' post='427838' date='May 24 2007, 12:38 PM
Congrats, but your car has 163 hp and not 150, unless you down trim them in Belgium.
Nope, in Germany there is also the same version, it's called the "Fleet Edition". As stated above, on paper the engine is downtrimmed to 150hp to avoid higher tax levels. Usually these cars are only available to large customers, being corporations.
Some people took their "Fleet Editions" on the test machine, and they proved to have just as much hp as the regular 520d. So its (fortunately) only a downtuning on paper.

P.s., the fleet Edition is also available as the 320d (in Germany).

@fox72, nice car, congratulations!
I really love the looks of it, the black combined with the nice rims. Good combo.


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