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Written by Vijay Pattni
This is the new BMW X5, and it is big. Really big. Longer, wider and taller than it"s predecessor, and much longer, wider and taller than the very first generation of the ground-breaking Sports Activity Vehicle" BMW launched back at the turn of the century. We"re now on the fourth generation of X5, and it"s just shy of 5m long. The first one was 4.6m. Think about that, because there"s still another SUV that"ll be bigger than this X5, called the X7. We suspect there"ll be no mistaking this one for any other X5 that has come before it, though: it looks tauter, squarer-jawed, angrier. And that kidney grille is just getting out of hand now. Underneath the sharper creases sit four engines, three of which you can buy in Europe, and one that you can"t. The one we don"t get is a hefty 4.4-litre petrol V8 (badged xDrive50i) that pumps out 460bhp and 479lb ft of torque and together with an eight-speed auto box and four-wheel-drive can hit 62mph in 4.7secs.
Date written: 6 Jun 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12117
This is the new BMW X5, and it is big. Really big. Longer, wider and taller than it"s predecessor, and much longer, wider and taller than the very first generation of the ground-breaking Sports Activity Vehicle" BMW launched back at the turn of the century. We"re now on the fourth generation of X5, and it"s just shy of 5m long. The first one was 4.6m. Think about that, because there"s still another SUV that"ll be bigger than this X5, called the X7. We suspect there"ll be no mistaking this one for any other X5 that has come before it, though: it looks tauter, squarer-jawed, angrier. And that kidney grille is just getting out of hand now. Underneath the sharper creases sit four engines, three of which you can buy in Europe, and one that you can"t. The one we don"t get is a hefty 4.4-litre petrol V8 (badged xDrive50i) that pumps out 460bhp and 479lb ft of torque and together with an eight-speed auto box and four-wheel-drive can hit 62mph in 4.7secs.
Date written: 6 Jun 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12117
