We turned the head of a guy in a Porsche Cayenne Turbo about a month ago. More than a 90 pan as he drove by. Get out!

His was about the same color as my PG. Perhaps he was wishing he had such a stylin' car as mine :).

ahh are you a fellow cornellian? if you come up to cornell, i have two friends each with black 4.8is, we can do a mini xoutpost meet :thumbup:

Now that is murdered out on 214s it does, now I have to decide if I want to paint the calipers bright green...

- today a couple guys in their 20s were staring at me at the train station as they were stopped in traffic
- last year another guy at the gas station asked me what year mine was as he checked it out
- other male SUV drivers do look once in a while, the women couldn't care less - and other E70 owners - sometimes I wonder if they even know if they're driving the same car, they just go on about their day. ;)
- and I definitely still stare at it

Depends how much you do it up from stock as there are a ton out there already. I still don't even see that many with 214 wheels - definitely not even 1 in 10.

Same here---bought mine in '01 and people couldn't believe BMW had an SUV. Now, all X5's are dime a dozen. Let's be honest, unless you are rollin' in a Bugatti this topic is over.

The biggest question I would get would be regarding the tires....people wanted to know why I put race tires on it. Those 87's wrapped in 315's were hella sweet......Phil

Yeah, did grad school there. The mini xoutpost meet sounds cool though I will probably not be driving from Cali ;)

BTW, on the topic itself, I do get occasional stares but no-one has approached me. As someone said, unless you are rolling in a Bugatti, Lambo, Ferrari etc., even Porsche's don't count out here in California, the topic is pretty much over.

Gonna irritate a lot of people with this, but I think the V8 and the sport activity with the fender flares and staggered 20" wheels look awesome. Otherwise X5s with stock 19" wheels and no flares look very very plain.

For looks I'd get a Range Rover Sport, or Porsche Cayenne.

I get compliments on it, usually about how much better it looks than other X5s, and they ask if I have any exhaust mods (I don't).

Removal of the roof rack and lowering it, as well as keeping it extremely clean, makes it stand out in a crowd.

Just leaving the grocery store tonight, I started it up in the parking lot and a Grand Cherokee owner did a double, triple, then quadruple take as I drove away, then was looking at it driving down the street when he caught up to me. Must like em :)