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BMW X5 arrives just in time for Christmas
New SUV’s main party feature is its astonishing roadholding and ferocious quad-turbo engine
Fans of BMW’s X5 list top-notch dynamic driving qualities in their purchase decision. When it comes to pure thrills only a few SUVs could match the ability of an X5 for athleticism. Apart from wanting to tempt people out of rival brands, BMW’s aim when building this latest, fourth-generation version, and indeed other X models thus far, is to infuse more off-road driving capability into the old recipe of luxury and performance. For those customers who may have coveted a BMW X5 but shied away due to the farm-road impracticality, the company is now able to offer a 20-inch light alloy fitted with all-terrain tyres for more confidence and mitigation against easy punctures. I’d have dearly loved to expand on this revelation but instead my driving partner and I found ourselves facing 40 gravelled kilometres of the Montagu Pass in the Western Cape, not in a BMW X5 armed with the new set of knobbly and grippy Grabber AT3 tyres but the other option — the very road-based 22-inch M Performance...
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