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Originally Posted by BMWGUYinCO
After 23 years in the Lexus RX series, my wife decided she wanted to switch to BMW (she loved the tech in my M550) and also wanted to go smaller. So, she told me she wanted an X3 M40.
We went on the BMWUSA custom build site, specc'd it to her exact wants, and boom: less than 3 months later it arrived. This was in '21 during Covid.
So, not too long at all.
Now, she wants an X5 and our dealer is telling us there will be little inventory on BMW lots for the next few months and allocations for a custom build are getting harder to come by. So will be interesting to see how long this next one takes....
PS Anyone hear of the inventory shortage and why this could be? I know several model lines are being refreshed (like the X5) so maybe it's just the gap between models?
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Update to my own post; We went to the dealership this past weekend and my wife HATED the interior of the new '24 X5s; most of the controls/buttons are missing! She just didn't want to hunt and peck on a giant screen to access the audio, then climate, etc. The advisor said "Everyone is now using "Hey BMW" voice commands to control those things and my wife just shook her head. She plays music pretty loud and couldn't imagine having to yell "Hey BMW" all the damn time. Turns out, there is a lot of discussion about this elsewhere in these forums... He didn't have any 23s in stock either.
So anyhoo - we custom configured a '23 LCI X3 M40i with all options, - we were told it will arrive in July. But for what its' worth....the dealer had NO X3s of any kind on his lot, no used ones either and said it would be a few months before he got stock back. He claims that BMW is in the process of ramping up production...