BMW X5 X5, E70
Fast, heavy and comfortable, and it still drives smaller than it is. Every consumable on it is sized to match the car rather than your budget.
Overview
The E70 is the SUV BMW X5, built 2006–2013 and facelifted in 2010. 3 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €6,500–€27,250, and 1 of the 3 carry a risk level of 4 or 5; the facelift cars sit at a premium over otherwise identical pre-facelift ones. The cheapest way in is the 3.0d M57 from €8,500, while the 30d N57 is the lowest-risk engine at €15,000, so which engine you buy matters more here than which year. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.
BMW X5 SUV (E70) · photo BMW E70 X5 3,0d pre-facelift by JaayJay · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
| Body style | SUV | Production | 2006–2013 |
| Platform siblings | sold in this body only | Facelift (LCI) | 2010 |
Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 2006–2009
The 1 variants sold before the 2010 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.
| Badge↕ | Engine | Fuel | Years↕ | Power↑ | Torque↕ | Risk↕ | Issues | Price band↕ | Good buy↕ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0d | M57 | diesel | 2007–2009 | 235 PS | 520 Nm | R4 | 8 | €6,500–€16,000 | €8,500 | Buy w/ conditions |
Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 2010–2013
The 3 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.
3 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.
Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →
Model-year availability
Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.
Rating map, price against risk
Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.
Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.
Prices across the range
Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.
Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. M cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.
Every standard engine · cheapest first · 30d N57 highlighted as best value
at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile
Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these
Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.
Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 3 times: M cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.
Buying summary
Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.
Best value: 30d, whether M57 or N57, since both are strong and the fuel bills stay sane. Tyres, brakes and suspension are the real running cost, and a set of four tyres costs what a small repair costs on an ordinary car. Check the transfer case actuator and the air suspension on any car so equipped. So scan the whole car rather than the engine alone and treat electrical faults as normal here rather than as a reason to panic.
Cheapest and dearest in this chassis
The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.
Lowest entry price
3.0d M57 : from €6,500, risk 4
30d N57 : from €12,000, risk 3
xDrive35i N55 : from €13,100, risk 3
Lowest risk
30d N57 : risk 3, good buy at €15,000
xDrive35i N55 : risk 3, good buy at €16,100
3.0d M57 : risk 4, good buy at €8,500