X5 ///M spy shots, info and discussion thread

[Muz]

Post it notes are more reliable and dont need software updates

[X5audi]

Why?

[LeMansX5]

some new engine spy shots have surfaced showing TT V8. Shots at bimmerfile.com

[CGSTL]

Do you think the TTV8 would be a direct replacement for the current 4.8i? Or, will it sit at the top of the model range and leave the current 3.0 and 4.8 unchanged?

Originally Posted by LeMansX5

some new engine spy shots have surfaced showing TT V8. Shots at bimmerfile.com

[LeMansX5]

There are several versions of N63(same enigne little different settings). The X6 has one, F01 has another and X5. So far it will be for performance model.

[Bimmer4125]

It's a viscous flange retainer for an onboard colostomy bag unit for left hand drive X5's - it drains operator bodily fluids into the rear axle housing for added lubricosity adding a "green" element to new BMW vehicles.

[X5audi]

I wonder why they bothered to disguise the headlamps. Update? Already? Or does the performance treatment give it something special this time around?

[LeMansX5]

Originally Posted by X5audi

I wonder why they bothered to disguise the headlamps. Update? Already? Or does the performance treatment give it something special this time around?

Yes, headlights and bumper are X6 style.

[chilliwilli]

[LeMansX5]

BMW is working flat-out to prep its new X5 performance flagship – expected to debut at the Geneva motor show early in 2009 – which borrows the X6’s muscular 408bhp twin-turbo V8 for a 155mph punch. It’s a step closer to the full-blown Motorsport X5 that BMW had vowed it would never build.

While there’s nothing exactly sluggish about the current top dog X5 – the 4.8i is powered by a 355bhp 4.8-litre V8 that will rocket the BMW to 60mph in 6.5 seconds and on to 152mph – the addition of the X6’s blown 4.4-litre V8 to the range will make the X5 as quick as a Porsche Cayman S. Expect it to hit 60mph in just 5.5 seconds and be electronically reined in at 155mph. That’s pretty brisk for an thick-ankled off-roader that weighs the wrong side of two tonnes...

Hmm…I'm thinking about the fuel bills in this BMW X5

Well, with an estimated price tag nudging £60,000 it seems unlikely that most buyers will be concerned with a car that barely manages 23mpg on the combined cycle and has a CO2 posting of around 300g/km.

You’ll be able to spot it when it looms in your mirrors though – like the X6, the hottest X5 will have a revised nose housing much larger air intakes to feed the blown engine, as well as a more profiled bonnet. It will, in short, look like a right beast. Expect the suspension and brakes to undergo the necessary upgrades, too.