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Originally Posted by Quadruple VANOS
If I'm so concerned about saving money that I consider diesel power trains; why would I be buying such an expensive car as a 7 Series BMW? That connection has never made sense to me.
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If I recall correctly, in 2018 when I purchased mine, there were only 4 engines available, 730d, 740d, 740e (in G11/G12) and 760 (G12 only) so just as the US don’t get 730d/740d, we couldn’t get 740i/750i, and if you do lots of miles 760 isn’t really a viable option given the high cost of fuel here. It is now > $10.50 a gallon for petrol and > $11 for diesel.
LCI reintroduced 740i, 750i and 740e was replaced with 745e in the UK market.
The 740d engine is just fantastic in my opinion (I have had other VW group 3.0 diesels and 4.0 and 4.2 V8 Jaguar Petrol, and it trumps the lot). It is powerful, and regularly gets over 850 miles between fills, and when road conditions force it (average speed cameras etc) I get even more. In sport mode on country roads, the acceleration is blistering, and makes passing traffic really easy. The onboard trip computer MPG is about 3 MPG too generous. My average since new is almost 45 MPG, and on a tank containing 4 x 100 mile trips, the majority stuck at 50-60 MPH, that tank was 49.8 MPG (onboard trip reported 53.2 MPH). When I had the V8 petrol’s , I felt as though half my life was spent in gas stations.