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RodneyWright
 Post subject: this real?
PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:42 pm 
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Ok you bimmer heads out there, while coming back from lunch today I saw an e39 based BMW that was badged as a 550i. Looked nice and had all of the normal trim pieces blacked out. Is this a real bimmer?

I did a quick google search and this doesn't appear to be real....

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Aaron Buckley
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RodneyWright wrote:
Ok you bimmer heads out there, while coming back from lunch today I saw an e39 based BMW that was badged as a 550i. Looked nice and had all of the normal trim pieces blacked out. Is this a real bimmer?

I did a quick google search and this doesn't appear to be real....


What years are the e39 chassis cars? I have seen a few 550i's at work. - AB

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Steven Carter
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The only ones I know of are E60 chassis 550i's. I enjoy parking very close to them at work-- I think they retail in the 60s....IIRC the E39 chassis had the 540i--Maybe the E39 owners did a swap of some kind?

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Steven Carter wrote:
IIRC the E39 chassis had the 540i--Maybe the E39 owners did a swap of some kind?


I bet too it was a swap, or just a rebadge. - AB

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RodneyWright
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Aaron Buckley wrote:
RodneyWright wrote:
Ok you bimmer heads out there, while coming back from lunch today I saw an e39 based BMW that was badged as a 550i. Looked nice and had all of the normal trim pieces blacked out. Is this a real bimmer?

I did a quick google search and this doesn't appear to be real....


What years are the e39 chassis cars? I have seen a few 550i's at work. - AB


'98 to '03 are the e39 chassis years

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Aaron Buckley
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RodneyWright wrote:

'98 to '03 are the e39 chassis years


Then yes, likely a swap. The 550i's I believe were offered in 2006+. - AB

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Fake. Kind of an odd swap though, assuming someone actually did it. Replace a 4.4 liter V8 with a 4.8 liter? 300 HP to 360 or so?

Next time snap some pictures with your phone and let us see.

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Pete Guthrie
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there is a guy on youtube. In europe who did a v10 swap in to a e30 bmw.
that would be crazy.

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