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New Fri 1 Oct 10 13:21 
 BMW - to recall 350,000 luxury cars - VxFan
BMW has announced it will recall about 350,000 luxury cars worldwide because of a problem with brakes.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11452486

The recall affects V8 and V12 engine cars in the BMW 5, 6 and 7 ranges, and Rolls-Royce - a BMW subsidiary - built between July 2001 and November 2009.

Let's hope the car in front isn't a Toyota!
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New Fri 1 Oct 10 15:44 
 BMW - to recall 350,000 luxury cars - ....
Not surprisingly only 10,522 V8 or V12 BMW's were registered in the UK during that time.
Not really a HUGE surprise.

Almost a 10 to 1 ratio of Rolls Royce to big engined BMW's sold. 905 RR in eight years does make me wonder how they manage to make such a small number of cars so relatively cheap.
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New Fri 1 Oct 10 17:42 
 BMW - to recall 350,000 luxury cars - hawkeye
No recall for the non-working indicators then?
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New Fri 1 Oct 10 18:00 
 BMW - to recall 350,000 luxury cars - Skoda
lol
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New Fri 1 Oct 10 18:03 
 BMW - to recall 350,000 luxury cars - Ian (Cape Town)
Lovely.
Just done 600kms in the X5 over the past few days. On some pretty hairy roads and tracks.
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New Fri 1 Oct 10 18:09 
 BMW - to recall 350,000 luxury cars - Zero
>> Lovely.
>> Just done 600kms in the X5 over the past few days. On some pretty hairy
>> roads and tracks.

So it only stopped when the tank ran dry then?
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New Fri 1 Oct 10 18:14 
 BMW - to recall 350,000 luxury cars - Ian (Cape Town)
Zero, the rate some of the lads were thrashing them, it wouldn't surprise me if they were running at 10 mpg...
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New Fri 1 Oct 10 23:37 
 BMW - to recall 350,000 luxury cars - VxFan
Just figured out what the acronym BMW stands for.

Brakes Might Work.
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