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      01-18-2010, 04:45 PM   #1
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My New 2010 550iGT! Hello Forum!

Took delivery last Dec of my car and am having a great time with it. Glad to find a few others who love it too.
I ordered this car without ever sitting in it or driving it. I trusted BMW and my previous experiences with a 540i6 and 750li. This car is fantastic. Its 3 cars in 1. Its part 7 series, part x series and part previous gen M5.

Hey owners, how is your gas milage? Mine is awful, around 11 or 12mpg. NO I am not dragging at every light
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      01-18-2010, 06:57 PM   #2
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Welcome aboard, the car looks great and I really love those wheels!
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      01-18-2010, 08:59 PM   #3
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I'm planning on ordering one for Euro Delivery for later this year. I like the color of yours, is that the graphite metallic? What's your interior color?
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      01-18-2010, 10:09 PM   #4
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My color is Space Gray Metallic. Fell in love with it when it came on the 3 coupe a few years back. This is a big car and anything light colored adds the pounds. I had done black before and I feel some details are lost with black, so I went for the Space Gray.
My interior is Called Cinnamon. Kinda like saddle brown or terra. The leather looks great but the plastic pieces that "match" look toyish in this color, but you dont really notice it all that much.
My rims are the standard sport package rims, 19". There are 20" options but they revealed too much of the break rotors for my taste. Also the in between spoke in my wheels is painted what I believe to be Space Gray. So it looks custom. The more spokes, the less the break dust!
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      01-19-2010, 03:07 AM   #5
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Congratulations on the new ride. I am loving mine too!!! I do have the 20" wheels. You are right about the rotors being seen...they look like pizza pans!!!
The space grey is nice. Had a 550 before and knew the mileage would suck on this ride too...thus the gas guzzler tax on the ride. But I do love the performance!!!
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      01-19-2010, 03:19 AM   #6
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very nice car! congrats!
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      01-19-2010, 11:08 AM   #7
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I was going to do European Delivery on my GT until I heard about swapping of the wheels. In Germany you have to change from sport tires to All Weather tires in the winter season, its the law. If you do not, you forfeit your BMWED insurance. BMWED doesn't announce this very loudly on the site or brochures so I had to look to the blogs to find answers. What you do is pick up your car and drive a few miles to some guys garage and rent all season tires from him for you stay. He keeps your wheels and tires in storage till you return to swap them out and send your car on its way. (You have to return to Munich to ship your car instead of dropping it off at other ports.)
Luckily my wife's car comes due in July and I hear its beautiful in Europe then
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Loving the colour (space grey) I have changed my order from Neptune blue to the grey (please excuse British spelling!) I have ordered the diesel 530d SE.Can't wait.
Dealer called today,there are some changes to spec on the March build onwards (prof navigation price reduction,change in side view camera spec and price,two new colours (damask red and a beige colour... I think you may already have these) I don't know if these include North American build or are just European build changes.Anyways My heads still reeling!
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      01-24-2010, 06:19 AM   #10
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Took delivery last Dec of my car and am having a great time with it. Glad to find a few others who love it too.
I ordered this car without ever sitting in it or driving it. I trusted BMW and my previous experiences with a 540i6 and 750li. This car is fantastic. Its 3 cars in 1. Its part 7 series, part x series and part previous gen M5.

Hey owners, how is your gas milage? Mine is awful, around 11 or 12mpg. NO I am not dragging at every light
Hi Sorick,
Glad you are liking your 550i GT. I too have ordered a GT (In Australia) without seeing it or driving it first. Have owned 745Li (good economy) and have a X5 TwinTurbo Diesel (Very Good Economy) in Europe. Solution (not available in America is to order 530d which has far better economy and same standard of luxury. (and still has enough performance). US could cut it fuel consumption if it had more diesel cars like in Europe, UK and more so now in Australia. We chose the GT because of its 'crossover between 7 series and X5 is just perfect. Now having seen it in Switzerland I am pleased with look and comfort inside. Have ordered Sophisto Grey (I think this is 'Graphite' in USA) with ivory/black interior. 20" Wheels plus lots of other 'goodies'.
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      01-24-2010, 09:14 AM   #11
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HowieR,

Welcome to the future! This car will satisfy all of your dreams of the 7 + X convergence.
Question for you, would you wait for an XGT? I woulda have gotten that but its not available till DEC '10.
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      01-30-2010, 04:14 PM   #12
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Good to see a F07 with some nice specs at last

The ones at the dealer over here just look boring due to weird colour-combos and ugly wheels
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      02-12-2010, 07:35 AM   #13
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Loving the colour (space grey) I have changed my order from Neptune blue to the grey (please excuse British spelling!) I have ordered the diesel 530d SE.Can't wait.
Dealer called today,there are some changes to spec on the March build onwards (prof navigation price reduction,change in side view camera spec and price,two new colours (damask red and a beige colour... I think you may already have these) I don't know if these include North American build or are just European build changes.Anyways My heads still reeling!
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Nigel i just read your post and since i am expecting delivery of my 535i gt around March , i wanted to ask you few things:
1. About the price reduction do you have any more info because i speced both Nav professional and side view cameras but my dealer has not contact me about any changes?
2. do you know (roughly) what maps are installed in the nav prof. (countries)?
Thank you and keep driving!
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      02-12-2010, 06:12 PM   #14
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1. About the price reduction do you have any more info because i speced both Nav professional and side view cameras but my dealer has not contact me about any changes?
2. do you know (roughly) what maps are installed in the nav prof. (countries)?
Thank you and keep driving!
Hi giol,
You won't have any of the changes,as these apparently only take effect from production week 9.
Your dealer should know about the maps,failing that BMW (Spain) will be able to help (I hope!)
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      02-15-2010, 04:23 PM   #15
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Like the color!

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Hey owners, how is your gas milage? Mine is awful, around 11 or 12mpg. NO I am not dragging at every light
Mileage will come up (probably needs to be broken in). We are now averaging about 17mpg (we do a lot of highway). We chose white, but I really like your color. Looks awesome!
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      02-18-2010, 04:57 PM   #16
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looks great! can you post pictures of the Cinnamon interior?
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      02-19-2010, 10:31 AM   #17
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it's been more that two months with this baby... we need an update... pros and cons

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