03-17-2018, 08:08 PM | #1 |
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Tri-Cities, Washington
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Just brought home a 2018 X5 Hybrid. Its my second BMW, the other one is a 1M.
We were on vacation recently and ended up with a Ford Fusion Hybrid as a rental. My wife has been driving a Prius for 3 years and loves it, compared to the Mercedes GL450 she had been driving previously. I inherited the GL as my daily driver for the winter, and we still use it as the car for family road trips. Its OK, but its huge and its a gas hog. I do not like the Prius at all. I was pleasantly surprised by how much better the Ford Fusion was compared to our Prius. I started researching that car, and discovered the Plug-in version, and ultimately decided we still needed an AWD SUV. I had not heard of the X5 plug-in hybrid until I googled "plug in hybrid SUV" about two weeks ago, and needless to say I decided I had to have one. My daily round trip is 22 miles, so I anticipate using very little gas on a daily basis. Where I live, electricity costs $0.072/kwh.
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