Yes, some of the updates make it feel like a brand new car. It's pretty impressive. My '22 car is among the oldest in the Tesla fleet to be getting Grok because older cars don't have chips capable of running it. That's the only thing I wish the company would improve on, making the older cars capable of receiving all of the newest enhancements. It's a little like buying a mobile phone and I think this needs to change. That's too bad about the X5! That's way too new of a car to stop receiving updates. Do you have to take it to the dealership to get those updates or can you get them from home?
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I can get them from home OTA, except for that one case when update got stuck.
BMW is further ahead than I thought! I think Mercedes' owners still need to go to the dealership for every update. How do you like the X5 otherwise?
We owned this BMW since fall of 2018, the only repair so far has been replaced starter because it uses automatic stop start feature and I guess it got worn out as it must be inferior to the one Toyota Prius has. You have to turn off this feature if you don't want to save gas stopping at every light by pressing a button every time you start the car, which is annoying. At the cost of the starter replacement I want this gas saving feature to be turned off for good...
Otherwise the car is great to drive and gets over 20 MPG on average which is great for this size of a vehicle. It comes with every luxury except air-conditioned seats and massage. Tech is good, but I feel it is behind Tesla's. Heads up display and automatic speed warnings in Heads Up Display are nice. But it is really my wife's toy and she loves it. I still drive my ancient S550 Mercedes most of the time :)
That is a very good track-record if that's all you've needed to replace on a 2018. I've heard certain BMW models are very reliable. I always wondered how much wear and tear the start/stop feature caused to the moving parts. My wife has a '25 Subaru Forestor hybrid. Subaru uses Toyota's hybrid-drive system but the engine in the Forestor runs really rough when the engine turns over after running on EV-mode. My Prius never did that. I can't help but wonder if that Boxer engine isn't getting enough oil during the "starts". Time will tell, I guess.
That X5 sounds like a keeper! Tesla tech is pretty amazing but I don't like that the hardware feels obsolete to owners after around five years. The Tesla software engineers seem to do a great job of using software to optimize the older hardware but, still, I like to keep my cars for around ten years. I keep looking at the new Toyota Land Cruiser but have a hard time imagining going back to an ICE car.