mmarshall

I'm not sure I see how you can lump the ES and IS together like that. They are two very different products, and tend to have very different comfort and driving dynamics.

djrabbi

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LOL.

Within of a week of ownership, I got a the "Reduce Power" malfunction, which was tipped off by a on going N63 Recall. N63 Recall pertains to the 4.4TT engines, which BMW has started since December of 2014. After all that was fixed, the electrical gremlins kicked in for another $3500 in repair.

TangoRed

N63tu engines are fine though. All that to say the E70 was never reliable during its entire model run.

djrabbi

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Agree'd. The N63tu are great and they fixed all the little issues from 2013+.

I should be rephrase then. Be very careful of the BMW X5 50i. I should have gotten the 35d but the V8 is a monster

GSteg

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I think he's talking in terms of material quality. Neither the ES and IS are at the levels of the LS/GS. The RX just happens to be closer to the ES/IS in this regard.