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You need gadgets in the car to make your car "sparkle like a holiday" to steal a saying from Rainman. BMW has to market to it's own crowd AND attract new customers. You care a lot about total performance. Most car owners want to be entertained 24/7 including their 11 minute putt putt drive to work and the store each day.
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Saw one on the road yesterday.. it looks every bit as weird and awkward as it does on photos. Love the interior minus the weird crystal glass gear shifter, but the exterior is a let down. My F15 Msport looks many times better to me.
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Oh don’t even get me started on the crystal shifter lol
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In all fairness to BMW, I understand the front grill needs to be larger to accommodate and allow much more air flow for these engines. That has been the auto trend for many years (bigger grills) I think started by Audi and Lexus almost a decade ago. BMW of course is late in the game. But I wish BMW designed the huge grills a bit more sporty. The X7 is a joke too.
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We were at the dealer today, and they had a nice white one there. Laser headlights, M-sport package, 50i. Sticker was 90,750. I too hate the rear end, but the inside is actually quite nice, and the new X5 as a whole is not that bad, it looks good. Except for the rear end, that looks like a Jeep, or Durango, or Mini-van, or any other main stream vehicle on the market....
It is leaps and bounds better than the 2018 X2 I just spent the last two days driving. I will NEVER EVER buy one of those.
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Are you sure it was an X5? Could have been an X3! I can't tell them apart!
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Agreed, X1 and X2 are both horrible.
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The G05 grill connects in the middle and appear to be one solid grill. I think that might be the main difference, proportionally they seem to be identical.
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It’s the extra 3 inches on the bottom side of the grill that throws it off. I saw one at the dealership sitting right next to an F15 and immediately realized what they had done. F15 has that extra cut out under our kidneys, but G05 got rid of that and just extended the kidneys south an extra few inches, making it look ridiculous.
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I think the front view of X3 looks proportionally better than the X5.
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