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Beyond impressed with my 4.8i in the snow I am a true believer in X-drive!
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I also think of the X-drive as an afterthought and I agree they need to start promoting it more. Good experience with it last month. I'm not saying it's better than my other SUV that does great but this should be a strong selling point for an SAV/SUV and they hardly ever mention it.
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yes,, we got 10 inches here over 24 hours. I pulled right out the parking lot. I had all the people watching me see if i get out.. It was good when i just pulled right out, (and the thumbs ups I get from all the on-lookers)
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BMWs current ad agency is fairly rubbish. Their previous one was sorta cool, with nice soundtracks of the E46 and some neat twists in their adverts. But all the new ones seem to talk about is Ultimate Service.
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totally agree with np2004 on this one i also have the 19'' allseason on right now and with 25cms of snow here in waterloo this X5 is a tank!! i can only imagine wht it would perform like with snow tires on
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Although we have not had any snows that deep here in Kansas City this winter we have had almost continuous snow and/or ice from before Thanksgiving until last week. I have driven in very challenging snow & ice conditions in North East Iowa when visiting our daughter. I grew up with four wheel drive vehicles in the mountains of Western North Carolina and have many hours behind the wheel in severe off road conditions as well as deep snow & ice. The X-5 beats them all (even with standard 19" all season tires).....I would not subject it to those kinds of off road conditions....but for snow & ice it beats everything I have ever driven. I feel safer and more in control in hazardous driving conditions than in any vehicle I have ever driven. If you keep your distance from other vehicles and remember to allow for increased breaking distances you are probably safer in an X-5 than in any other vehicle you could drive in those conditions. I agree that BMW (and BMW owners) need to get the word out on this.
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What a great "review", np! Sounds like a great experience!
We got about a foot here in Cincinnati and we chose to leave the E70 burried. It had NOTHING to do with not trusting it in the snow, we just didn't trust OTHER people driving in the snow. We have other AWD/4WD cars to use so it just wasn't worth it. We had it out in some of the smaller snows over the past few months and it never once struggled. Sounds like next time we get dumped on, we are going to have to take it out there and experiment! |
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I echo np2004 comments - I replaced the 20's with the 19's as well for winter and yesterday we got like 40cm of snow and the X surprised me as well!!
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Why is it a suprise to you guys that the X-drive is that good?
I mean, in huge test, it's been doing better than Quattro systems and also beaten Subaru (is it Haldex?) So the X-drive IS really that good! |
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