Run a 3.0 for a bit. In the city, I was impressed for over 7 years with my little (big) six. Plenty of oomphff down low all the way to surface street sanity. I put down a number of other SUVs who thought the X5 was a peach.

But to your point, the V8 on the highway is intoxicating. Where my 3.0 would die off around 75, 80.. the V8 just pulls and pulls. I start to feel anemic at around 120/130. I'm not sure it's the car as much as it is me. Like the 3.0, I feel a great deal of pride when I run with those who don't know what it can do. Unlike the 3.0, my V8 takes a minute to get there. Still really quick of course, but I would be surprised if the 3.0 and V8's weren't neck and neck for the first 8th or more of a 1/4 mile run. And lets face it.. by the time you've exceeded a surface street speed limit, you should be walking back any way.

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