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Beautiful Blend of Luxury and Performance
Bought a 2024 BMW X5 m40i about a month ago. Totally impressed! Exterior styling changes further enhance the beauty of the car. Interior is clean, simple, and elegant. Engine and transmission powerful and smooth. Very quiet ride! I carefully compared to Mercedes GLE 450 before purchase. GLE body style looked a bit dated and stodgy to me. Reviews of GLE touted interior luxury, but to me, the BMW is hands down more luxurious and up to date looking. During driving test, the GLE was not as tight and nimble, and I felt some roll in curves. BMW driving performance was superb and superior. For me, the choice was easy. BMW X5 delivers an excellent blend of luxury and performance that is best in class.
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An Impressive vehicle
I have owned the X5 for four months now, and I am extremely pleased with it. The base engine is powerful and smooth, and I’m glad I didn’t get the 50i. The interior is beautiful and very comfortable. The technology package is also well worth it, for the self-driving feature. Multiple times now, I’ve been able to engage it on a highway, let it drive for 30 miles or more at a time. It does an nice job. My only complaint is about the lags and glitches with iDrive 8. But I just bypass it and use CarPlay.
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Great car , marginal dealer
We’ve had the car now for almost a year. Very pleased with the vehicle, less so with the dealer. No maintenance issues after about five thousand miles. The handling, acceleration, and technology are superb. It takes awhile to learn the tech but that’s true of ALL new vehicles. Most of it is pretty logical. A couple of minor nits: some glare from the driver’s upper air vent reflecting into the side mirror …should use black rather than silver. Too many button pushes instead of knobs for heat and air. Garage door refuses to pair with our opener …had no trouble with 6 other cars. The car DOES run fine on regular and despite the howls from the purists, it states right in the manual that using regular gas WILL NOT hurt the engine. Fuel mileage is outstanding for a vehicle of this weight and performance… I routinely get 28 mpg, even if traffic. Quiet and elegant. The dealership experience, however, both in purchase and in routine service leaves much to be desired. BMW apparently only allows one dealer per midsized city and they can pretty much do as they please regarding add-ons and junk fees. I negotiated to get my price but it wasn’t pleasant. They insisted on 5 star reviews when the delivery for a luxury vehicle was 3.5 stars , maybe. The salesperson was upset when I gave them an honest review. A scheduled routine oil change took nearly 3 hours ! Another 3 star review…no follow up to ask why. I bought a second BMW 9 months later because I was impressed with the car but drove two hours to use a different dealer. Much better treatment. BMW management, are you listening?
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Great car, if it doesn’t die on you
1st BMW for us. X5 50e. Great, loved the car. 3 months after purchase, 3003 miles, suffered “drivetrain malfunction” while going over the Grapevine in California. Towed to dealership in SoCal where the car sits to this day. Day 32 now. Service advisor said “Germany is making all the decisions”. Took 3 wks to figure out what is wrong. Need to replace the high voltage battery and some battery control module or something. No ETA on when parts will be available for repairs. No end in sight. BMW North America - talk about NOT being helpful! First and LAST BMW for this family. I’ve driven Hondas all my life, all my kids now drive Hondas… BMW lost a repeat customer for the next 30 yrs because of the poor service, not the crappy lemon they sold me. Was more than willing to give them a second/third chance, but not with poor customer service I experienced. Starting process to have BMW buy it back and get my money back. We’ll see how that goes…
Smooth and Fast
I've had my X5 50e for 2 weeks now and it is just so smooth, quiet, quick, and comfortable. Love all of the tech and after some time spent getting myself familiar with all of the tech I am now very comfortable just getting in and driving. I shopped it against the GLE 450e and the Range Rover Sport PHEV. If you know what to look for when looking at vehicles to compare build quality, it is just simply built better than the MB GLE450e, plus you get the rock solid BMW inline 6. The Range Rover Sport PHEV is well built, but doesn't feel as planted and is not as enjoyable to drive... plus you would pay a great deal more $ for questionable reliability. I don't buy cars for show. I mostly use electric driving around town and it's wonderful. If I want to punch it, the power is immediate and just downright fun. I love this SUV! I am very happy with this X5 50e. It puts a smile on my face every time I'm behind the wheel. My wife also enjoys the comfort of the multi-contour seats and the massage feature, so bonus that my wife loves it too. Right now I've averaged over 90MPG and the ability to drive around town on electric power and still have the use of the hybrid/ICE for longer trips without waiting around 30-40 minutes to refuel like a full EV is the sweet spot for me. I'll be happy to go full EV in the future when the charging infrastructure is better built out and battery technology has improved. The only con I would have for the X5 is less than desirable backseat legroom. It's not something that affects me, but being 6'1" when the driver's seat is in the most comfortable position for me another 6 footer behind me could use a couple more inches of legroom.
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