All the US rentals I have had with Sixt omit adaptive cruise or all the nicer options I get on the EU ones. In Europe it seems to be geared to get you to enjoy BMW ‘at its best’ - often some tricked / optioned out cars. Bare bones stuff in the US - pretty much always a stock X5, X3, etc.

Checked out Sixt at both ORD and a local Chicago branch. To echo previous statements, the cars are typically fairly bare bones (by BMW standards; not by typical automakers). Here's a few examples and I hope this helps.

New 2024+ 530i xDrive w/Premium Package (head up display, gesture control, heated seats)
New 2024+ 330i xDrive w/Convenience (keyless entry, heated steering wheel)
New 2024+ X3 xDrive30i w/Convenience (keyless entry, lumbar support)
New 2024+ 840i xDrive (comes with M Sport as they all do, but no further options)

New 2024 X5 xDrive40i w/Premium & Parking Assistance & Luxury Seating Package - this I believe is the best spec of all Sixt cars as it includes the H/K stereo, cooled seats, multi contour seats, heated armrest, head up display, blind spot / 360 xam - and I checked out 5 different X5's all equipped like this. I believe nearly all of them are. I highly reccomend the X5 too because it comes standard with adaptive dampers - no other Sixt cars (except the rare to find 7 and 8 series) have that, and it has the famed B58 (again, every other BMW would be the B48 4 cylinder).

I just finished a 800 mile road trip in the X5 and got 25mpg with cruise set to 80-85. Oh, and it goes 0-60 in the high 4's... yes, this will be my pick going forward. HOWEVER, NO BMW I could see has adaptive cruise. Which kind of ruins all of this if it's a road trip.

Hope this helps!

Rent Denver January 2025
 

I am going to rent a BMW X5 in January 2025. Will this be automatically an xDrive version or do I need to select the 4wd option to make sure it is going to be an xDrive. I am not sure if they have sDrive on the lot.

Most of the X5 I have seen at Sixt in the US are sDrive and they come with all-season tires. Colorado in winter with RWD and all-season tires is probably not the best idea. I would highly recommend to select the AWD option.

Not one but four Bentleys at Sixt SFO today. Not bad.

Rentel January JFK
 

I got XFAR booked at JFK in January driving up to Toronto and back. Anyone checked out the latest Cars at JFK and got any idea if I should switch the booking class? Sixt Platinum on me if that matters.
Would love to get an X7 but for whatever reason theyre not ready to book for 2025 yet?

And do I need AWD for that time of the season or is the normal X5 fine?

Kind regards from Germany :)

supergraeme Could I ask, what did you end up getting for your rental? I am in a similar situation as you but booking from LAX. I cannot find much online about this "Extraordinary" category so I am not sure what to expect, but I found a great deal so if it is going to be a decent car, I would like to book it. Any feedback from anybody that has rented an "Extraordinary" car from Sixt in LAX or nearby branches would be very much appreciated.

Depends on your category - there’s Extraordinary SUV, Sedan, etc.

The catergory is Extraordinary. I have since found that the Acriss code is XCAR

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Sedan then, very likely you’ll drive a BMW 5 series.

Thanks. Yes, I understand it is a sedan that we booked and BMW 5 series is the main car model in this category. I am just looking to find out what other cars they have in their fleet under this category so I know what else it can be if they don't have any BMW 5 available.

Sixt at SEA early this morning: a few X5, several G60 5ers, a smattering of 4ers/3ers/2ers. a few Volvo S60, and several mainstream cars. No 7ers/X7s or anything larger/fancier.

I contacted Sixt customer services and they confirmed that currently the only car in this specific category is BMW 5 series. Just posting here in case anyone else is wondering...

What is this 5er, 3er? It's a 5 series or 3 series.

Look in Germany, 3-er is just how they roll; it's not wrong, it's just their way of short hand.
Cars has their own slang everywhere and 3er is completely normal in Germany, it's all over BMW's German website (https://www.bmw.de/de/neufahrzeuge/3er.html), and on enthusiast forums.
3 series is Drei-er or Drei-serie, with the Drei being 3.

We have German specificity to thank for Sixt's insistence on BMWs and specific models so relax, grab a pretzel, and make sure you're pronouncing Porsche correctly while you're at it

Tbh I’d prefer getting more specific: which 2er and whether the SUVs LCI to know whether it had adaptive cruise so let’s count the general forum’s blessings that OP didn’t say G60 LCI, G20 LCI, G22 pre-LCI, G42/F74 pre-LCI to specify what’s in the fleet.

3 series wise, I’ve walked up to an LCI F30 instead of the G20 I was expecting at Hertz, was NOT a good day.