C & D Comparo: Acura MDX vs. Audi Q7 vs. BMW X5 vs. Land Rover LR4 vs. Lexus GX460

[LeMansX5]

2011 Acura MDX vs. 2011 Audi Q7 3.0T S-line, 2011 BMW X5 xDrive35i, 2011 Land Rover LR4 HSE, 2010 Lexus GX460 - Comparison Tests


2011 Acura MDX vs. 2011 Audi Q7 3.0T S-line, 2011 BMW X5 xDrive35i, 2011 Land Rover LR4 HSE, 2010 Lexus GX460 - Comparison Tests - Auto Reviews - Car and Driver

[Kloogy]

Is it just me, or has Audi gotten carried away with the DRL LED's ? I had one park next to me at the Pharmacy yesterday , and it looked way over lit.

[FSETH]

Dated dashboard in the BMW, really? The interior of the e70 looks very modern, imo.

[BGM]

The LR has to be the most dated of the group. And I wonder why no ML 350 in the group. It's interesting that the 3.5 with 20"s beat the MDX on the skidpad by only .01--I wonder how much better it would have done with Adaptive Drive.

[XXX555]

So four points out of 200 or so seperate the top four players? Don't want to piss off your advertisers do you C & D?

http://www.caranddriver.com/var/ezfl...568592dfbc.pdf

[XXX555]

Originally Posted by BGM

The LR has to be the most dated of the group. And I wonder why no ML 350 in the group. It's interesting that the 3.5 with 20"s beat the MDX on the skidpad by only .01--I wonder how much better it would have done with Adaptive Drive.

Or worse with the standard 18's.

[motordavid]

Originally Posted by XXX555

So four points out of 200 or so seperate the top four players? Don't want to piss off your advertisers do you C & D?
...

Aha, I think someone has broken the code!

Imo, C&D's 'comparo' tests lately, are cars maybe 1 or 2 posters here would ever be 'able' to own, or cars of similar ilk in style but with varying degrees of less/more options and thus, not exactly apples to apples.

I recall when the comparisons ran for several pages, and they really went out of their way to make the cars being compared very similar in equipment. And, the testing was much more thorough. Course the mag 'then', had double the pages, both editorial and ads...

Interesting to read, but doubt an car enthusiast would buy one over the other based on that 'comparison', imo. But, I still subscribe to the damn thing because they make the annual sub so inexpensive.
GL, mD

[stockguru]

So puzzled. BMW decided to send a car with summer performance tires for a test drive in MICHIGAN in the winter?

[deutsch100]

Originally Posted by BGM

The LR has to be the most dated of the group. And I wonder why no ML 350 in the group. It's interesting that the 3.5 with 20"s beat the MDX on the skidpad by only .01--I wonder how much better it would have done with Adaptive Drive.

The LR4 probably has the newest interior design of the bunch. For 2010 the LR4, Range Rover Sport and Full Size Range Rover all got awesome new instrumentation, dash layouts, all new buttons/dials and materials!

[deutsch100]

Originally Posted by FSETH

Dated dashboard in the BMW, really? The interior of the e70 looks very modern, imo.

I hate to admit, but I agree 100%. The E70, 3 Series and the now cancelled 6 Series are the only BMWs that still use the "dated" dash instruments, standard & boring all orange lighting, and just the 2 rings for Speedo and Tach. Look at the new 5er, X3, 7er, Z4...the instruments and interior layouts looks really modern, refreshed and pretty cool.

I LOVE my '11 35d, but when I compare the dash instrument and the HVAC controls to our '11 Range Rover, '10 750i, and my neigbors '10 GL550 and S63...the E70 dash and HVAC controls looks spartan, dated, bland and the digital print for the onboard info, odometer and the HVAC looks primitive and very old!