My younger brother who use to drive an Evo 8 which handles like a porche (they call it a poor mans porche anyways) and now drives a SRT8 grand cherokee was in town visiting. I loaned him the X5 to drive and he reported back an experience. He was driving my X5 down a mostly empty 4 lane interstate when a pickup truck about 3 car lengths in front of him had a wheel barrow fly out of the bed. Now when he tells stories he gets very vocal and uses his arms and everything else which I kind of got caught up in but I remember the jist of the story. It consisted of the wheel barrow landing in front of him and he naturally braked and jerked it one way to avoid it landing through the windshield but it also bounced darted the way he tried to avoid hitting it so he had to jerk back the other direction at the same time smashing on the gas... blah blah blah (keep in mind he's dancing around telling this story). In the end he was amazed that he didn't end up hitting the flying object that he said would have killed him if it had landed through the windshield. Of course now he too is a true believer that the X5 and its superior handling and power and braking capabilities saved him. I'm lucky to not have needed to use the full potential of my X5 but i'm glad it's there if I need it! Of course I'm glad he didn't hit it either but after his story I did do a full inspection of my X to make sure it was indeed a close call!