apparently there has been a mile stone reached in the production of X5,s

1,000,000th car has been built recently, so compare that with the number of people on here complaining of poor quality and failing components and i think all will agree they are in the minority.

and my humble opinion is that most catastrophic failings will be due to owner abuse, and not always the present owner but previous owners.

interesting quote


Throughout its life so far the BMW X5 has earned the following distinctions: “autonis” prize awarded by the trade journal “Auto Motor und Sport” for the most attractive design, Gold Award in the J.D. Power Study on customer satisfaction in North America and “Top Safety Pick” for outstanding crash test behaviour both in 2007 and 2008 from the American Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

i,m real happy with mine, its not a race / rally car just a real comfortable and fairly quick means of transport.

if i want to go off road i take my jeep, if i want to tear around a race track i will use my Honda S600, upgraded with a 1300cc motor 5 speed box konis and the list goes on (assuming i ever finish building it)
and if its water sports i guess my 32 foot sports cruiser will do

now for comuting to work and long inter state trips the x will do fine