Nauseous Passengers ?!?
 

Recently, passengers driving with me have complained about being nauseous while driving on the highway in my 2011 X5 35i. I'm driving at normal highway speeds, no lane shifting, just cruising on the highway.

I shower often, so would anyone know why people would feel nauseous? Could it be the turbo lag? I never heard this complaint during the 5 years I had my 4.4i.

One trip, same group of passengers?

Or has this happened with different groups of passengers, different trips.

Seems nonsensical to me, (never heard of this as a complaint in 200,000 posts I've read) but lets see.....

My wife always gets sick when she rides with my but I think it has more to do with me driving then the X. :D

If it's just passengers and not you, it's not something in the air...

If they're not looking out the window like normal people, then that would be an answer cause if you notice when you bury your head and read something while moving, you can feel that way...

The other answer is I don't know.

I've had my 4-year-old daughter throw up couple of times on long drives. I don't drive harsh, so I assumed that the truck ride might have caused it as she is very much used to the soft ride of my wife's Honda Odyssey...

That's funny you say that. I have had my Mom, Spouse and a few friends complain that my '08 4.8i E70 and my now '11 35d make them nauseous. Also, my bff has a 2008 X3...and her in laws and kids do not want to ride in her X3, because it makes them want to barf. So odd!!

I am the other way. I don't have a problem with BMWs but in the back of a Suburban on a 6 hour interstate trip, I kind of felt that way, even though I'm almost never bothered by that.

Could it be the X simply allows one to take corners faster than most are used to?

I've made someone nauseous with an X3 (on a test drive, the purchase was vetoed in favor of a 5-series because of that), but never anyone in one of my X5s except myself!

The upper deck of a highway here had just been repaved and there was still a depression at every joint. Going over those rhythmic bumps for a few miles made me oh-so sick.

OP, do you have adaptive drive? I personally think that the current flock of E70s are pretty bouncy without it. Perhaps that's what set 'em off. My E53 had the 'you can't change the setting' sport suspension (ie teeth chatteringly stiff), and both my old E70 and new E71 have adaptive drive. I drive in sport mode almost all the time because I can't take the 'bouncy'. (Except today when I had 700lbs of rocks in the back -- I'm getting all kinds of eyes loading that kind of stuff into an X6 :) )

Good thing to know I'm not totally alone. I can't stand more than an hour in the backseat of the X5.

The closest anyone has come to throwing up in the X5, was while my brother was driving me home from my bachelor party on the morning of my wedding day. :p