X5 handling is pretty amazing!!

[Naz24]

Originally Posted by Richard in NC

I have mentioned of my trip with the X5 50i to the Tail of the Dragon on the TN/NC line several times. It is 318 turns in 11 miles, all nice and tight, slightly cambered, perfectly smooth, and some elevation change but not much. But it has almost no run off, room for error, or guard rails on even the steep drop offs. I have been there 9 times, around 50 total runs.

I was chasing M3s and M6s, and they were chasing me. My in car video is good but a friends video, chasing me in his e92 M3 is even better at showing how flat the X5 corners and how well it exits them. He needed to wind out the short straights, and brake deeply to catch me into the next turn many times.

Regarding under steer, just learn to be a bit slower in and power thru the corners. Even full DSC on, I could rotate the X5 a bit with the throttle from mid corner thru corner exit.

And where are these videos?!?

[J.Belknap]

Yes. Videos, please.

[ShantF1]

Same here. I had a 2009 sport pack 48i. It was good… I recently lemoned the car because of small problems that the dealer couldn't fix… long story short, I have an identical car (sport pack 35i) and I agree. Very good car.

[MRV99]

My 11 X5 w/ adaptive drive and 336's was at the dealer for 60+ days(12 is waiting to be delivered) and i had the luxury of driving multiple loaners from the dealer. The last one was a 11X5 50 sport with 214's (no adaptive drive) which we had for about 2 weeks. The dealer gave me my 11 back to drive while for 2 weeks until the new one came in and the only thing i can say is huge difference. Granted I have the air suspension but the two cars handled differently. Without the sport button, the loaner had much more body roll than mine did and with the adaptive drive on it was no contest.

[rh71]

^ The SRX is the best selling crossover right now. How'd it drive?

[Richard in NC]

Originally Posted by rh71

^ The SRX is the best selling crossover right now. How'd it drive?

Much better than the Lexus but it was too long ago to compare to the E70 X5. I had an e39 M5 at the time. I thought the event was a Car & Driver deal but it was fully Caddy sponsored and set up to show the RX330 weakness in handling. They also had a comparison between the CTS and the 225 HP 530i on a course with longer straights and few curves so you could not tell how much better the 530i handled than the CTS.

I just recalled one SRX trait I didn't like was very slow steering, You had to hand over hand a couple of times for any sharp turn. Fast fwd to my X5 50i with active steering and sharp curves are effortless 90 degree flicks of the wheel yet with sufficient road feel.