It feels good to drive the X5 again

[alpac]

I have been on business trip for the last 4 days in the New-York Westchester area where I got a Subaru Outback as a rental. I flew back to Raleigh this afternoon and then drove the X5 from the RDU airport back home. The Subaru is a pretty decent car but ... Man! what a difference! The distance between the airport and my home is only 15miles but I enjoyed driving my X again so much that I extended the trip for another 20mns . The problem with that car is that you get addicted to it and can never drive a lesser car anymore.
That is actually how I bought the X5 initialy 7 months ago. I went to the huge Carmax dealer here in Raleigh. I had no intention or idea to by a BMW, even less an X5. As a family man with two kids who one of them will start college in a couple of years I had almost convinced myself that nice and fun cars were not for me anymore. Believe it or not I actually was about to buy a Pacifica that very same day....yea...I know... Anyway, while waiting on the dealer parking space for the rep to come back with some documents, I looked at a near by X5 4.4. I said to myself 'boy! that is a nice car, must be fun to test drive' . Well, I test drove the X5 right after the Pacifica....again ffffouuuu! what a difference! Then I had to explain to my wife why I picked a car with less cargo space and less seats than the Pacifica but for a much bigger price . That was the toughest part... arrrh! they will never understand nice piece of machinery .... Anyway that is how I got into this X5 madness.

[Juanted]

I know what you mean, Alain. When I went up to NJ a few weeks ago, I rented a Vovo S80. Yeah, nice car, but, like you said, the X5 spoils you! Glad to hear you made it safely, and that you're "back on the saddle."

Juan

[vinuneuro]

Hey there, hope you had a good trip. Did you ever find out whose Silver X5 that was?

It's interesting....we ended up with the X5 similarly. We were at the Lexus dealership looking at an ES300. There was a 98 528i that looked cool. So we were like wth, never driven a BMW before, might as well see what it's about. Test drove and . I thought that was love and looked vigorously for a 530i and somehow ended driving an X5 and knew it could NOT get better. The 5-Series is nice, but having the seating position AND the handling is amazing. It's mind blowing that BMW pulled this off.