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Originally Posted by Fentomized
I'm shocked about these consumptions of the car. We currently own the M40i and while we did expect it to be quite bad, it's weird that you guys with the smaller engines are going through the same trouble. We are currently doing 11.3 l/100 km (20,8 mpg) and we do sometimes floor it a bit too. I wonder if it's our driving style that does this, or if the new X3 in general that's being weird.
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Being a fairly heavy car that's not aerodynamic the smaller engine will be working quite hard. The M40i won't be working hard so economy isn't that different. If you could work the M40i hard most of the time then economy would really suffer.