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My wife's lease of a 528 is about up and we are going to an X540e. This is after trying many other alternatives. Audi Q5 is very attractive, but it's front-biased weight distribution offends me. Volvo 90, and new 60 could be a winner, but I'm not going to buy a Chinese car. New Land Rover Velar looks really good, but when I went with off-road driving group when I lived in Australia, my Toyota Land Cruiser always ended up towing back one of the Rangies. The Hondas and Mazdas are probably the smart buys, but I'm not going to a non-prestige brand. I'd prefer the size of the X3, but in several back to back drives and 2-day loaners, the X3 is a very fine SUV, while the X5 is a limosine in SUV clothing. It will ford to 20", which is the only SUV characteristic I need in Houston (as compared to crossing the Simpson Desert, the Gunbarrel "highway" and the Birdsville track in Australia--for which the Toyota LC is unequaled).
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