New car added to my "collection"
 

I bought a 2003 X5 4.4 for my youngest son.. It has sport pack and cold weather pack... Pretty cool, and it only has 50k miles on it.

that's a lucky son! i'm guessing its his first car?

Yup... And the e53 models are soooo rigid

Good for you. I bought my X5 almost 4 years ago primarily for my kids to drive. It spent it's first 1 ~ 1 1/2 yrs in the household going to the high school. And teachin' the youngster bracket racing.

It weathered all those duties quite well, but to this day I don't understand how he never got a ticket 'cause I KNOW he hauled ass more than occasionally (the apple doesn't fall far from the tree :D ).

The X has been fun enough to goof around with that I took it back and bought his ass a Camaro so he'd leave the X5 alone..................

I never understand those people who can go from a Japanese car back to an American car, and worse yet from a German car to an American car. It is so plain to see the shortcuts taken in craftsmanship and quality of materials once you have owned something like the X5.
I use to purchase about 3 or more cars a year, 2008 I went through 6, I love changing cars. They were always mid to entry level Japan and German (VW, Altima, Armada, etc). In 2007 I purchased an E Class and still have it. A couple years later I got my X5. Now that I have both of those, the only way to go is sideways to a new version on those. I lost the urge to continue looking at new cars; nothing compares to these two name plates.