Our lavish 7-series has us pondering a Colin Chapman approach to expenditures: add cheapness.
Date: December 2010
Months in Fleet: 12 months
Current Mileage: 35,655 miles
Average Fuel Economy: 18 mpg
Average Range: 391 miles
Service: $0.00
Normal Wear: $0
Repair: $0
Damage and Destruction: $3940
Can a car be too luxurious? We're asking ourselves that question as the 750Li nears the end of its 40,000-mile test. We're still smitten with the way the big BMW gulps miles, but the logbook has begun to fill with entries concerning different ways of making our 750Li better. Most of the time we wish our $120,675 7-series hadn't arrived so lavishly equipped. One driver wrote, "Even the most basic 7-series has enough luxury to satisfy any Louis XIV wannabes; I don't need the $6500 M Sport package, I'd pay $2400 to get rid of the $2400 active cruise control, and since I always have the driver nannies shut off, I could live without the $1350 Driver Assistance package." Another oft-criticized option is the $3700 Luxury Rear Seating package, which reduces the seat count of this giant car from five to four. Whether a family wants to take the big BMW on a road trip or five of us are running out to lunch, the 750Li never seems to have enough seats.
- Subscribe to Car and Driver Blog using Google Reader
- Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
