Xoutpost.com - X5 Facelift Pics and updates( w/ Leaked Official pics)

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Originally Posted by Edge647 (Post 659195)

Interesting post at the bottom of this site
New Spy Photos: BMW X5 Facelift

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BMW sales says:
September 10, 2009 at 10:36 pm

For clarification, the X5 will indeed get the two turbo gas engines currently offered in the X6 stateside. These are available around March 2010 production I’m told. The hatch/tailgate combo will remain the same as current, not a single lift hatch. However, if you look at the pics, you see the turn signal is moving from the bottom corner up to the top corner; very interesting.
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Wonder if that "BMW Sales" user is truly an inside person.

Cheers

Those are old spy pics Palbay posted above. We already know about TT.

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Originally Posted by LeMansX5 (Post 659220)

Those are old spy pics Palbay posted above. We already know about TT.

Yeah - it was more the comment that was posted on that site yesterday that I thought maybe people were interested in...thought maybe it was really a "BMW Sales" guy :)

Palbay is the best !! we knew about that days ago :p

cant wait to change my rear taillights to the facelift-ed !!

What the hype of the new taillights? Will it be a simply retrofit?

Odd, how they are amber colored on top.

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Originally Posted by LeMansX5 (Post 659228)

Here's new meat, new M-sport pack and X5

Sweet pics!

And why are taillights not lined up--I'm guessing it's just it's a test mule but it looks funny.

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Originally Posted by mtech8 (Post 659257)

What the hype of the new taillights? Will it be a simply retrofit?

Odd, how they are amber colored on top.

New taillights have new 7-series like wide CELIS LEDs.

Retrofit these exhaust tips too. ;)

http://www.xoutpost.com/attachments/...s-dsc_1456.jpg

With the E70 seating 7 people and the X6 introduction, I think BMW was rethinking the concept of the original X5. The Original X5 was the midle sized sporty SAV with a remarkable character... today, unfortunately, the X5 is turning into a mini-van with 7 seats (no matter how they try to hide this fact with putting new bumpers with stupid jet intakes) while the X6 SAV coupe is taking all the sporty attributes to the extreme with 4 seats...

Why I say unfortunately? because I think that many people like me identified with the E53 because it was the middle sized sporty SAV having-it-all... today i feel the X5 has become so huge for me (I don't need 7 seats and a lenght almost 5 meters) and the X6 is so agressive and non-practiacal for me (3 tons of steel to transport 4 people)...

So BMW did a huge mistake in leaving the ground to Porsche cayenne to take over the customers of E53... I believe they were dragged into this mistake by Japanese cars like Nissan pathfinder/Armada and Nissan Infinity FX... what they did not realize is that the Original X5 had its success because of its character, so why follow Nissan/Infinity strategy for huge living room / extreme sporty? who said it's better??

For me, I would have created the X7 to have the 7 seater luxurious SUV and the X6 to compete with the FX, while keeping the characeter of teh X5 unchanged...

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Originally Posted by bgsquad (Post 659860)

With the expanding X family, the new X3(coming early next year) will be bigger than current one(to differentiate more with X1) and X5 will be the family hauler. People who do not like X5 will have X3 or X6 to choose from.