and note that it did not look like it had a rising rear window in this spy photo either yet we know now that it ended up having the rising rear window.

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...fdre/X33AB.jpg

I think what LeMans is saying (unfortunately) is that his sources are telling him that the X5 WILL have a rising rear window line like the X3 and the X1.

Very unfortunate because the consensus (at least on this board) is that the E70 window line is more attractive than that of the X3 and X1.