BMW 640d Gran Coupe M Sport
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I've had a 640d coupe for the last three years, mainly for 3-4 hour journeys. It's a phenomenally competent car for that kind of use, comfortable, lovely place to sit, fast enough, plenty of range and economical. The HUD is great.
It's not remotely fun or interesting to drive, and even the coupe is a big, heavy car. Definitely get one with the 360 cameras, you have no idea where the front corners are from the driver's seat.
Mine started to get high-maintenance about 90k, it's now on 110k, still drives and feels great but it's taken a fair amount of work to achieve that. Suspension arms and springs, various engine sensors and relays, glow plugs, leaking vcg, engine mounts, guibo, rusty brake lines, alternator, belts and pulleys and the fun one when the intake manifold was 70% gunked up. I've done most of the work on it, or it would have been seriously expensive.
When I bought it there was nothing remotely close in terms of the balance between performance, running costs and purchase cost. If I was doing it again now I think there are petrol cars that can do much the same job and a wildly complicated high-mileage diesel wouldn't be my choice. Obviously your use case might be different.
It's not remotely fun or interesting to drive, and even the coupe is a big, heavy car. Definitely get one with the 360 cameras, you have no idea where the front corners are from the driver's seat.
Mine started to get high-maintenance about 90k, it's now on 110k, still drives and feels great but it's taken a fair amount of work to achieve that. Suspension arms and springs, various engine sensors and relays, glow plugs, leaking vcg, engine mounts, guibo, rusty brake lines, alternator, belts and pulleys and the fun one when the intake manifold was 70% gunked up. I've done most of the work on it, or it would have been seriously expensive.
When I bought it there was nothing remotely close in terms of the balance between performance, running costs and purchase cost. If I was doing it again now I think there are petrol cars that can do much the same job and a wildly complicated high-mileage diesel wouldn't be my choice. Obviously your use case might be different.
I bought a 2017 640d GC back in 2020 planning to keep it for 3 years. 5 years later and still loving it. A car that I think is one of the nicest BMW designs. Even Mr Clarkson is a big fan of these (make of that what you will).
Mine has been totally reliable, very comfortable, effortlessly gets a move on and i've had 45mpg over the 65k miles i've done in it. Long journeys are an absolute dream and it is a true mile muncher.
Yes it's a big car but for me that adds to the character of driving a large GT car.
Mines now got 80k on it. I should change it at some point but I would be adding c£40k to the value of the 6 and would likely miss it. Will probably keep going for a while longer.
If it's a good one then there are not many cars that offer so much for the money.
Mine has been totally reliable, very comfortable, effortlessly gets a move on and i've had 45mpg over the 65k miles i've done in it. Long journeys are an absolute dream and it is a true mile muncher.
Yes it's a big car but for me that adds to the character of driving a large GT car.
Mines now got 80k on it. I should change it at some point but I would be adding c£40k to the value of the 6 and would likely miss it. Will probably keep going for a while longer.
If it's a good one then there are not many cars that offer so much for the money.
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