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Old 12-23-2007, 06:56 PM
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NewsPaper Review - 07 X5

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You could almost guess that the worst car I drove all year would be an SUV. You might not guess that it is the SUV which most of my colleagues rate as the best there is – certainly, one of the fastest, and made by a company whose prod-ucts I generally admire.
But the new BMW X5? No thanks.
Lady Leadfoot and I spent a few days booting around Newfoundland in this car after the Targa competition. This had been our team's support vehicle.
Initially, I thought something was broken in the steering. The big wheels and tires, apparently reacting badly with the active steering system, would follow grooves in the pavement and "tramline," as the Brits call it, in a most alarming manner.
Speaking of alarming, every time we breathed in this thing, it beeped or honked or flashed or squeaked or squealed. Just too much Big Brother, too nanny-ish.
The worst was the park distance control system, designed to tell you if there was something behind that you might bump into. BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP – yeah, yeah, I know there's a pole back there, but it's 20 metres away. I know it's there because the backup camera gives you a decent view of the area behind you.
So I shut the system off – and the camera went off, too! What genius came up with that idea? Give me the camera, but shut the bleedin' car up!
Add to all this the fact that I bumped my head constantly getting in and out of this thing, the lousy ride quality, the noisiness, the unfathomable sat-nav system and that steering – by Day 3, Lady Leadfoot actually asked me to stop swearing at the car, because it wasn't going to get any better by itself.
They sell these things by the thousands, and can't throw a 5 Series wagon off a building onto somebody. I don't get it.
It's as if the German engineers said, "Hah! If these Americans want this type of car, we will give it to them!"
Not to me, though.
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Old 12-23-2007, 07:03 PM
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Sorry nynd, I don't get the point of your post. Some guy who works at the Toronto Star did not like the 2007 X5? Do you care?
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Old 12-23-2007, 07:50 PM
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funny....i never had a problem with any of the items/areas they discussed..

some people will never be satisfied no matter what you give them!!!

no squeaks, squeals, or rattles for me....

i think the vehicle is well made...
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Hey Brian,
Just more of an FYI - this guy is suppose to be pretty good and here it is he has nothing positive to say. With all the high scores in crash testing you'd think they'd be more positive. Oh well....doesn't bother me the least...I guess its all personal opinion and he's entitled to his views.
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Is this the link?

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache...&client=safari

http://www.wheels.ca/columns/columnists/2675
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Old 12-24-2007, 12:06 AM
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Jim Kenzie the author of the article is very impressed with himself. His favourite was the Audi S5. Most other reviewers found that car, while powerful, lacked road feel. Hmm is there a pattern here?
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I wonder how many e-mails he got about his X5 review.......
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Quote:
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Hey Brian,
Just more of an FYI - this guy is suppose to be pretty good and here it is he has nothing positive to say. With all the high scores in crash testing you'd think they'd be more positive. Oh well....doesn't bother me the least...I guess its all personal opinion and he's entitled to his views.
Jeremy Clarkson is also another highly regarded journalist and TV presenter. But he hates the 3 series, finds the X3 idiotic, and sees no point in the X5. Big whup.
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Jeremy Clarkson is also another highly regarded journalist and TV presenter. But he hates the 3 series, finds the X3 idiotic, and sees no point in the X5. Big whup.
But Jeremy Clarkson did admit that the Z4 beats the TT.

Top Gear also did a good piece on the X5 as an alternative to a power boat for wakeboarding!

At least Jeremy has a (self-deprecating) sense of humour. Kenzie is just dour.
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^ actually it was Fifth Gear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npqIw7iV7P8
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