For BMW fanboys the stuff that breaks down is the price to pay for the awesome ride, and the awesome handling through the curvy roads (as if they take their cars to the track every day)...
But for the realists, BMW quality sucks big time.
Not in a million years I will recommend any BMW to anyone, or purchase another one. I miss the BMW of the 80s, the rock solid 1988 325 that racked up 280K miles, and was running like a champ without constant fix-ups...
Good old days.
When BMW decided to make more of their cars, and sell it to the over leveraged US consumer who can mostly afford a BMW by subsidized lease payments or paying with loans that stretch to 5 years, while acting like a millionaire just because they are driving a BMW, BMW as a company stopped caring about quality, and started caring about selling the most amount of cars for the highest profit.
I do not blame BMW for taking such a route, because they as a company lost their core, and there was the credit credit give me more credit, put me in bigger debt customer that thought of driving a BMW as making them "someone" with a "social status" and BMW made the most profit out of it...
In any case...
Only my personal opinion.
I lol'd
A member of our board is saying that BMW X5 is a performance vehicle...
Great marketing department by BMW...
X5 a performance vehicle?
What performance? Driving a person from point A to point B? That can be done by millions of other cars/SUVs out there.