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Year:2003
Mileage:95575
Location:
tiny, Ontario, Canada
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If you are looking
for a minivan, you have come to the wrong page. This is no
ordinary car. This is the
car “the little old lady from Pasadena” would have loved to own. The
“Ultimate Granny Wagon” a BMW 540I Sportwagon (or “Touring”) in Europe.. A 2003
model, the last year of this series known as E39, and the best year. BMW stopped
building station wagons for the next two years as there was little demand for this type of car outside of
Europe. The North
American consumer equated the term “station wagon” with “mini van”, something
for the wife to take the kids to school, and could not understand why anyone
would want to own a superb high performance car like the BMW 540I, with
anything other than the conventional sedan shape and styling. Especially with a
price tag of over $ 60,000 ! Only about
500 cars made it to the US and a few to
Canada, this being one of them. If you are
interested in owning a very special and unique BMW, read on to find out more
about this car, in particular. You probably
know that it powered by a 4.4 litre V8
with 292 HP, enough for comfortable cruising and enough acceleration to
put most Sports cars to shame. The handling is superb and the comfort amazing. Fully
equipped with leather interior, memory seats, heated, with lumbar support, that
lets you drive 800 highway kms in 8 hours and step out feeling fresh. The winter
package has the ski bag pass-thru and heated steering wheel to get you there on
a cold day. Sun/moon
roof, steptronic 5 speed automatic transmission that is shiftable, window
curtains for the back windows, etc. This is a
two owner car and has been in our family for the past 9 years. Imported from
the US, properly documented and registered. Maintained
at the highest level at a BMW dealer, with all service records available. Mileage
just under 96000 miles (152921 km). Owned by Non-smokers. Colour is
Black Safire Metallic outside and tan coloured leather interior. Keys, books,
extra floor mats are all there, as well. Cosmetically,
it has a couple of flaws, as per the pictures. The hood has a small dent from a
flying rubber cone flipped up on the highway, the sides have a couple of dings
from runaway shopping trolleys, (or people who hate Bimmers), and a couple of scratches , a “kiss’” from a
parking garage post. Only reason
for selling is that the grandchildren are getting bigger, and we need an all-wheel drive
vehicle for the upcoming winter. The car has
spent most winters garaged, however it gets tru the snow quite well with snow
tires. We do have a set, mounted on very smart looking
rims, that we will include with the sale, if the buyer wants them.
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