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      06-19-2017, 09:04 PM   #45
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What's that in the center of the lower front grill? The active cruise on my e90 is about one third that size. Is that the night vision?
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Beautiful car- perfectly optioned out.

Now, if I can only find $100,000 worth of lost change in my sofa.
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Congrats on the new ride.
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Congrats on the ride, fabulous car - but at $100k custom order I'd have loved to see a midnight blue with ivory nappa interior - the Darth Vadar look is not making your car look $100k (anyone who gets one of these off the lot will have literally the option of shades of black and gray....and will be $40k less).

I'd personally have forgone some of the options and put it towards individual paint...

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      06-20-2017, 03:49 AM   #49
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Nice G30. But it's really a shame that the car does not have the fully digital cluster. Any reason why that is? Was your M550i build too early?

Other than that, congrats on the car. But I agree, F10 looks much beefier from the back.
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Looks real good!!!

It still bothers me that the "US" couldn't get full digital dash.
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You didn't own an E12! Therefore not all the 5-series generations!
...as I said in my post. ;-)

The wording of the Bimmerpost title when they pulled out my post was not my choice.
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      06-20-2017, 04:50 AM   #52
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Nice G30. But it's really a shame that the car does not have the fully digital cluster. Any reason why that is? Was your M550i build too early?

Other than that, congrats on the car. But I agree, F10 looks much beefier from the back.
Yes, full digital cluster (6WB) in US is not available until 7/17 production. No one at BMWNA could tell me why, but I assume it must have been for some US regulatory approval (as it was also already available in Canada, another BMWNA market, from SOP).

But then, regulatory approvals wouldn't explain why the 668M wheels were also not available in the US until 7/17 production, but were available in Canada... ;-)

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What's that in the center of the lower front grill? The active cruise on my e90 is about one third that size. Is that the night vision?
That is the Full Range Radar (FRR) sensor for Active Cruise Control.

Night Vision is a camera behind the left (from driver's perspective) kidney grill.
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Congrats on the ride, fabulous car - but at $100k custom order I'd have loved to see a midnight blue with ivory nappa interior - the Darth Vadar look is not making your car look $100k (anyone who gets one of these off the lot will have literally the option of shades of black and gray....and will be $40k less).

I'd personally have forgone some of the options and put it towards individual paint...

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No accounting for taste, right? :-)

I think a lot of the other color combos look beautiful, but I'm partial to black.

Agree that it isn't "unique", but it's unique to me — if cost for something that "looks similar" to a casual observer were the only concern, I could have easily gotten a base black 530.

Or a black Honda City. ;-)
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Nice. How are the front massage seats? I wish I had that option when I got my 16 F10.
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Nice. How are the front massage seats? I wish I had that option when I got my 16 F10.
This is the first time I have had upgraded seats, and I have to say they're comfortable. I have seen a lot of people say they're too soft, etc., compared to the sport seats; I don't find that to be the case. Not necessarily worth the money IMO, but very nice seats.
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As an audiophile.. I can tell you ...

- stock speakers are from Harman Kardon - ( yes.. the speakers, along with the electronics)
- Harman Kardon speakers generally are rarely available and if you found a set for sale and listened to them critically.. I'm you would be disappointed.. (ask me how I know!)
- with the above info... I am pretty sure that if you have ever heard a B & W speaker... you now are well informed on how this was an easy decision for daveschroeder to pull the trigger on... even as a non audiophile.

Excellent comment from OP on the typical SOURCE for listening to music in a vehicle these days.. which are.. Radio....vs your choice of compressed audio from many locations....Fortunately.. it does look like there is a CD player in the center stack still..
As an FYI, my M235i will play uncompressed FLAC files from a USB thumb drive; so I imagine that this beauty will do the same. Much better sound than any compressed option...

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As an audiophile.. I can tell you ...

- stock speakers are from Harman Kardon - ( yes.. the speakers, along with the electronics)
- Harman Kardon speakers generally are rarely available and if you found a set for sale and listened to them critically.. I'm you would be disappointed.. (ask me how I know!)
- with the above info... I am pretty sure that if you have ever heard a B & W speaker... you now are well informed on how this was an easy decision for daveschroeder to pull the trigger on... even as a non audiophile.

Excellent comment from OP on the typical SOURCE for listening to music in a vehicle these days.. which are.. Radio....vs your choice of compressed audio from many locations....Fortunately.. it does look like there is a CD player in the center stack still..
As an FYI, my M235i will play uncompressed FLAC files from a USB thumb drive; so I imagine that this beauty will do the same. Much better sound than any compressed option...

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Percentage of bmw owners that actually do this ? Or actually bother to save songs to their " insert favorite device " in an uncompressed format ?

About the same number that have actually heard a B and W speaker or less... ..
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I think it is safe to say a lot of people will not play uncompressed or "lossless" formats through such a system, meaning most people will not be fully taking advantage of it (like I am not). But then my ears and brain are not discerning enough to appreciate the difference — it does definitely sound good even with satellite radio as the source. Though even I can tell the difference between satellite and lossless formats, of which I have some.

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Nice car, but 99k is in M5 territory.
Perhaps, but between corporate fleet and discounts, I didn't pay that. There is also a story behind the configuration:

I added all options (except night vision pedestrian detection) to see how the option codes broke out while doing research and to share on the forum during the ordering process. The vehicle entered production a week earlier than expected (the morning I was going to remove unwanted features, in fact), so the configuration was frozen. The 669M wheel set also added an inordinate amount (IMO) to the sticker price, considering the stock set is lost. (Note: the VPC is apparently launching a program to allow customers to keep stock wheel sets when an accessory set is installed at port.)

Between that, not really being able to wait for F90 M5, and the M550 ending up being a good "compromise" of sorts between the M5 and what I originally thought was going to be a non-M Performance 550, the M550 looked like a good option. I do agree that various F90 M5 configurations will probably be in this ballpark.
how on earth does a company cover this as a corporate car? so incredible, I wanna work wherever that is! congrats on the badass ride
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I understand that, but still 99k is still seep for 550. Also F10 M5 base price was 94k so I don't expect new one to be more than 10K from F10 base. Nevertheless car is beautiful.
again, I'm in agreement with you. I think when G-M5 comes out. All bets are off. The M550 will look less attractive from a value perspective.

But then again, OP did add about $10k of extras on the car that isn't performance mods either. So, you can walk out with a $85k-ish M550 if you're careful.

At $85k, you'll have to wait for 1 year to buy a preowned first year model G30 M5. If given the choice, I'd prefer to wait.
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Thanks for all the audio comments. Sound quality is very important to me and I only keep lossless codecs. Nice to know FLAC files are supported in the M2. It gives me hope. The M550i seems like a bargain to me especially when considering M5 prices.
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Wow, I did not like G30 until these pics. Looks very clean! I would probably go with white interior on this, but its your personal choice. Love the debadge as well, I would do the same 100%.

Waiting for the m5 to come out as I am missing my F10! Best of luck!
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