A couple more quibbles about changes in the new X5...

The rear seat headrests appear to no longer be removable. So even though you are on a long trip with the rear seats folded down and loaded with baggage, you can no longer remove the head rests to make the rear foot well more easily accessible. FWIW on road trips we would remove the rear head rests and keep a small ice chest and food container in the rear foot wells. The passenger could easily reach behind the seat to get a fresh drink at any time and the driver could do similarly at a stop light, etc. Now the head rests barely clear the back of the front seats and pretty effectively block access to the foot wells unless you stop the vehicle and get out whether or not it is blazing hot, raining, snowing,, blowing up a gale, etc.

The location of the rear passenger cup holders is no longer as handy for front seat passengers. Once again when on road trips we regularly used the cup holders in the back of the center console to hold extra drinks/emptys. In the old X5 the rear cup holders were easily accessible from the front seat without having to pre-plan to have the center seat arm rest down.

Funf Dreisig