Your right,

Having adjustable ride height in the old X5 (E53) was good, droping it I think was a big mistake. The self-levelling suspension with Adaptive drive is good but having the new E70 ride height set at 212mm ground clearence is a little poor.

I have to drive to my beach house each weekend which means I have to do 28klm of actual beach driving (no road) and with the E53 I had 225mm clearence and that was bad enough. Low tide is ok but at full tide it is rally driving through soft powder beach sand and I often get bogged.

If you follow the tracks made by a Toyota Landcruiser they have 230mm clearence means I will bottom out.