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| Off roader??? |
| Troy 2-6-2003 |
Performance and luxury of this car can not be questioned because in my opinion they car surpasses all expectation. However, off road the BMW can not keep pace. On a recent 4WD trip through the Australian outback it became clear that the BMW could always outrun my car on the highway, but off road I'm yet to see anything with the ability of my Range Rover Vogue. I'm not saying the Range Rover is a better car, it depends what you want from your purchase. If you are actually going off road in a luxury 4WD, I suggest you seriously look at a Range Rover. |
| 4x what? |
| crisis 2-4-2003 |
This along with the ML55, Porsche, VW, Audi, Volvo etc incarnations of 4 wheel drives are appalingly cynical exercises in opportunistic marketing. They are all nice looking, high tech, comfortable and powerful but I would not take one of them on a camping trip here in Australia. Give me live axle, coil sprung centre diff lock any time. These cars have had the best aspects of 4 wheel drive and luxury sedans compromised out of them. This means you get something big that doesnt quite handle as good as its conventional sedan brother but is not as capable off road as a Landcruiser or Patrol. Unfortunately we have seen the last of the live axle Landcruisers too. |
| Best luxury SUV hands down |
| Primera 15-1-2003 |
Cleans up the ML55 and the Cayenne, but not the car you wanna take to the great outdoors with at all. But if you wanna cruise around the city in a high class SUV, then this is the one to pick. |
| I was is an X5 one day |
| motorhead 2-8-2002 |
My friends father who drives an X5 here in singapore had brought me back to myhouse after a school concert. The minute i got in i realisec that this was the most spacious vehicle i have ever sat in. The X5 is actually not a SUV it is a SAV which stands for sports activity vehicle. The X5 is the best offroader on road. It is like you are driving a sedan which is a good thing. When my friend's father was at a traffic light junction about 20 metres away from the traffic light the light turn amber and he lifted his feet off the accelerator and i thought he was going to stop but he rammed the accelerator until the tachnometre displayed 5000rpm. I was pinned to the back of my seat during that 10 second thrill. It was like the best day of my life. That shows how good that bloody thing is. BUY IT!!!!!!!! |
| closing time |
| henk4 31-7-2002 |
Thanks for the discussion, may be it is of some consolation to you that judging from other contributions to this page you are not the only one suffering from dislexia. I like your statement about Bush but our views on cars are likely to stay different for a while. |
| actually |
| BlackSunshine 30-7-2002 |
Streight up, when it comes to envirnmental issues, I think Bush has his head so far up his butt he's blinded by his own bullshite. As for the the spelling, back off, I'm dislexic and I'm doing my best. If you still refuse accept my arguements then your lucky, from what I've heard god protects fools and small children. This will be my last posting on this car. Thanks |
| spot a joke |
| henk4 29-7-2002 |
"Thanks for the chemistry lesson, which of cause was all well known to me. My joke about the Pope was based on your rather peculiar spelling of the word catOlytic. I do not know whether you are familiar with the meaning of ""convert"". Anyway, and I am doing my best not to become personal, if you would go back to school and learn how to spell your language, we may be able to talk again. By the way, from what I read you must be a full backer of your eminent president's decision to withdraw from the Kyoto treaty.""" |
| .... almost forgot |
| BlackSunshine 26-7-2002 |
Getting a cleaner burn does more than just improve power and effeciency. It results in less polutants in the exhaust. If you want a better explination, go take a chemistry class, cause I don't have the time. And last but not least, differant grades of fuel, and differant aditives to that fuel combined with a million other things, change the make up of the exhaust. For the most extreme example you can look at hydrogen powered cars... the only exhaust is water. I'm in no way saying that's how clean american cars are, I'm saying that's just an example of how differant fuels or grades of fuel can effect your immesions. Want more of an explination, go find one. |
| definition of Catalytic converter. |
| BlackSunshine 26-7-2002 |
"For some one who seams to love cars, you don't seam to know too much about em. The word Catalyst means ""promoting, initiating, or speed up a chemical reaction."" A catalytic converter causes chemical reactions in the ehaust that convert substantial amounts of polutants into compounds and chemicals that are less dangerous and destructive to the envirnment. American emission regulations are much tighter than European regulations, which is why there are many cars that can't be sold here for road use. And incase your actually that dense, the example of the Ford Excursion was exageration. Thank you, now go back too school and take a physics and a chemistry class and pay attention.""" |
| fuel efficiency |
| henk4 26-7-2002 |
Thank you for pointing this technology out to me. It does not explain however how you would achieve the same emissions burning 20 liters per 100 km in a big Ford (or 30 in a Hummer) and may 7-9 liters in a average european or japanese car which dispose of the very same technologies. What goes in must come out somehow, especially carbon dioxyde. Am I right in supposing that catolitic converters are the secret weapons of the Pope? |
| hmm |
| BlackSunshine 23-7-2002 |
You get better emissions and less polutants by using a differant quality/grade of fuel, by acheiving a more efficient burn, and through better catolitic converters. And it's raiting for safest vehicle ever was not based on assumptions. It was raited the by a crash institute here in the states. The raiting was acheived by size and stability, ABS systems, airbags, vehicles complete lay out and crush zones. Thanks for the offer btw... but I don't play golf. |
| let's call them UV's |
| henk4 23-7-2002 |
"A weekend ago I visited the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which is devoted to real sports and racing cars. Unfortunately BMW showed up with the X5 Le Mans (see elsewhere on this excellent website) a totally pointless effort to prove that putting a V12 (on loan from the Le Mans winning sportscar) could propel an ugly piece of metal very fast around the Nordschleife of the Nurburgring. These things have nothing to do with sport (unless you count the carrying of golfbags). This car was about the only mismatch in a terrific field of exquisite racing cars. Black Sunshine has nicely described the utilitarian purpose of these types of vehicles, and I absolutely do not deny you the right to use your truck in this way. However any connotation with ""sport"" appears to be a horrendous blasphemia, so why not call these things simply ""UV's"", so that everybody knows that we are not talking about real cars. May I further ask where you store the carbon dioxyde which inevitably escapes while burning fuel? Otherwise your reference to the mileage of European cars makes no sense at all. You are in for a disappointment if you really believe that Texas has as much oil as you claim it has. Please read some issues of the Oil and Gas Journal, dealing with global oil reserves. Sorry for failing to notice that you stated any facts in your previous message. The ""fact"" that this is safest car in the world may be based on the illusion that people appear to be invulnerable once sitting in it. Might also be true for an Abrahams tank. That the thing is agressive and imposing was the subject of my very first comment. That drivers behave accordingly, read the second comment. Next time when you are in Europe you are invited to join me in my hydropneumatically suspended Citroen for real confortable long distance driving, and although easily capable of doing over 200 kph it still will average about 1 litre on every 18 km. (I leave the recalculations up to you). You can bring your golfbag, because it's an estate.""" |
| Re: winter in Texas |
| BlackSunshine 22-7-2002 |
"Not every one uses 4 wheal drive for snow genious. Alot of people here have farms and ranches; yes ranchers make enough money for a BMW, Licholn, Lexus, or Mercedes SUV. And just so you know, it snows quite bit in Texas. Exspecially in the pan handle and the mountains out in west Texas; granted almost none at all in the south. As a forigne you probably wouldn't know this and are completely blind to the fact that Texas is larger than MOST European countries. So these vehicles use a lot of gas, well in America (where 90% of them are sold) our emission standards are tight enough to make the imission of a Ford Excursion (largest SUV on the market) cleaner than that of many European cars that get twice the mileage. If it's the cost issue your worried about, what do we care? Texas alone has more oil than any 2 (yes 2) OPEC nations in the mid-east. You think a Lincoln Navigator is too big? I drive a 1 ton, cru-cab (four doors), long wheal base (8ft bed), Dodge duelly with a 440 in it. Why you ask? Because I need it; I work in it. I mean manual, hard, exhausting, back breaking, stump pulling, and trailor towing work. If you don't agree with SUVs and big trucks that's fine, your entitled to your opinion. Don't buy one. But don't go making assumptions with your obvious lack of information. I noticed that you didn't respond to a single one of the facts in my last posting, could it be denial? You don't live em, don't buy em; but some of us use them. """ |
| winter in Texas |
| henk4 22-7-2002 |
It is always very stimulating to read Americans complaining about others imposing theirs views on other people. It is obviously a type of behaviour totally unknown in the US. I wish Black Sunshine good luck in Texas, where the four wheel drive advantage during winter times must be very great, judging from the enormous amounts of snow that must be falling there each year. Incidently, black sunshine might be the condition we will be reaching soon if we let all these gas guzzling devices have it their way. Finally even for a non-Brit it is frightening to see how Amercians deal with the use of English. May I suggest the use of a spell-checker from time to time? I am considering buying a Lincoln Navigator, do you think that is too big? |
| what the...? |
| Black Sunshine 20-7-2002 |
Ok first off, WTF is a lorrie? That like a truck or something? If so this, this isn't a truck, it's an SUV there's a big differance between this and a truck. The first being a truck is built in a body on frame fassion. This is built on the freakin 5 series platform. Second, don't go emposing your ideas on other because of your ill-conseived and highly skewed misconceptions. Third, I think this is a beautiful machine. It's got smooth curves, an agrssive stance, imposing looks, proportioned deminsions and the trade mark kidney grill. It's also been declared the SAFEST VEHICLE EVER MADE. IF you don't like one, don't by one. But for those of us who like performance and luxery but are in need of more space and capabilities (so long as it's not too offroad), this is the perfect automobile. You think SUV's are too big? (I'm assuming your british from the lorrie coment) Well that's what you get for puting your entire freaking country on one tiny ass island, you want space... FREAKIN MOVE!!!! Here in Texas we got all the space in the world for truck and SUV's 4 times this size, so don't go screaming your complaint at other people, cause while a few may agree. Most of us just don't give a rats @$$. |
| keep it real |
| blechi 19-7-2002 |
when i first bought this car i knew i had hit the best target.not only does this car have a beautiful body it also has the best interior ever.keep it real for all of the bmw owners. |
| thank you |
| henk4 8-7-2002 |
...thank you for so adequately supporting my description of the mentality of these lorry drivers. |
| see le mannes |
| kudosdude 4-7-2002 |
Just wait till it runs you over... |
| most tasteless car |
| henk2 20-6-2002 |
This car (no, too much honour, it is just a vehicle) competes with the Lexus RS300 and the Mercedes M class for the award of the most tasteless and useless car. This however surely is the winner. We should call a halt to the American influence that bigger is better, regardless of the claim on natural resources that these vehicles have. The nature of these lorries is also 100% reflected in the style in which most drivers use them, imposing, threatening and speeding. Let's start a general SUV boycot now |
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