BMW X5 SUV 2020 in-depth review | carwow Reviews

This is the new BMW X5 and it's a bit like BMW's own headquarters in Munich, Germany, because you wouldn't describe it as pretty, but it certainly stands out. In fact, I'm going to do a quick impression of this car, so look at the huge grill, this is ironic, it's like it's blooming its nostrils, this particular carving back here has several pieces of mud on the side, it looks like it's been driving outside. from the road, I haven't done it, it's just design mud that BMW will adapt this car as a The option that is alive just completely invented it, so this car is not the cheapest, but it is a luxury SUV , so it starts from £57,500, but in fact, you can save an average of £1,500 on a car cable.

You click the pop-up button in the top right corner of the screen and you can see how much you can save on a new car. The car. Wow, I thought I'd start this

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at the trunk so you can see the back. This car, which once again is not the most beautiful, but it stands out and this is another standout feature. BMW has kept the x5 split tailgate. I really like it, it's useful if you just want to perch here or push things on another. What I really like is this aspect. This is one of the disadvantages of a split tailgate.

If you want to reach it, you have to put it back, but I like this look. The shaft of the pack, you press a button there and it just slides out. very easily in most cars, it's a disaster. BMW really solved that problem, so let's leave that again and I can show you how to easily slide it out of the trunk, there we'll see that there are a lot of other useful features here, so I have several tie-down places underneath here and I noticed that look, it's on a shock absorber gas, so it stays up, so it feels sleek, which normally would be a spare wheel in there, but this car has run-flat tires, so I just have room that you can store things in and let's go back to this shelf on the portal because look at this, the notes fit under here like that.

I'm trying to figure out how to do it. I know you can do it. I can see signs here. Be patient once you've learned it, although it will be very easy next time, so the space underneath also has little hooks for hanging things, like shopping that rolls around when you turn corners. It has a nice square shape. The actual capacity is. about 15 less than what you get with an audi q7, but still, as you see, it's pretty easy and look, I can fold the back seats down from here and they just fit perfectly into place and it's an almost completely flat floor, just a little raised towards the end, but you can push things straight to the front.

I want to show you this also when I close the tailgate, it will do the bottom. Oh, I forgot to show you something. Look at this. I want to show you this, so if I press. this button here I have an electric trailer hitch and since I have air suspension on this car I can look there is another button here if I press it push it down and then I will press it it should load the car with its air suspension going down so I have my hitch of electronic towing, which is obviously an optional extra, but this lowering feature is standard because your car comes with air suspension as standard, there you go, great, now I can close the trunk again and let's go to the back seats.

I'll get these things out of the way, try not to mark the ivory leather, put the seat back, it's simple, you don't have to release the latch, now get into the mortals of this car, you have huge doors like that, the arch of the wheel. It doesn't get in the way at all the height is perfect to just drop in like this it's great, it's very easy to get in, you have easy access isofix anchor points down here and they are under folding covers so you don't lose the covers, like you do with the that open, there's also so much room back here that it's very easy to maneuver a large, bulky child seat.

Now you can see, look, this seat is in my usual driving position. I have a lot of space. lots of headroom even though we have the panoramic glass roof here, oh that's really bright, that's really good, although when it's dark you have two little lights in there, so it gives you a decent amount of light from reading and often that is not the case for the majority. cars anyway back to what I was talking about so there's plenty of knee room very very comfortable now it doesn't feel as spacious in the back as an audi q7 and part of the reason is you can't slide them in nor recline them. seats but they are super comfortable, there is a lot of support under the legs, they are quite reclined anyway, yes if you want to carry three it's not bad at all, the floor is almost completely flat so there is plenty of room for your feet, The middle seat is a little firmer, so it's not as comfortable, but you can fit adults in the back.

In fact, couldn't you watch our detailed hands-on video? You can see what it's like to have dry waste in the back, so many things you can put in the trunk and how. easy is to fit a child seat talking about children, they will be more than happy here, so the wooden edge is quite low. Also look, the rear windows go down all the way, which is very unusual these days, so that's good now down here. obviously you have your armrest, but you have a cubby there if you want to use it and you have the cup holders there, another storage place, well down here, you have a little area there where you can put a cell phone, there is a 12 volt outlet so you can charge some devices in there, you have climate control down here and you have a vent here to blow towards you to keep you nice and warm, also down here you have airplane style folders on the back of the the chairs are really solid, feel expensive, good place for your ipad.

In fact, you can get special mounts that attach to the back of the seat, then you can mount your ipad and then charge it here with USB C plugs, which is very modern nowadays and finally, the rear door compartments look like this . They are absolutely huge, there is plenty of room for my dobby flask in the front, even bigger, as I will show you now, I think every space in this car is actually very very good, I mean look at this, these ingredients are huge in terms of other storage up here. You have two cup holders in there, they are big enough for a decent sized bottle and this is a great thing in this car.

I can choose to cool my drink or I can heat it up to keep my coffee nice and hot down here you have There's another USB charging point there and you've got wireless charging for your mobile phone so just put it in there and let it charge. I'll cover it when you're not using it. You have more storage down here. it's actually a pretty decent space and there's another usbc input there also the glove box yes it's full of junk it's an average size and the last storage space is down here check out a small storage area there you can store money or whatever you want There is a design trend.

I'll let you take a quick look at it personally. I think it's much better than any previous x5. It's a big step forward. I think the design is really nice. I also like the way the vent pattern is. It's actually imitated here in the interior light pattern, that's pretty cool. One part I'm not too sure about is that this here on the dash scares me a little bit, but overall I think it's a very nice car, I like the way it's compartmentalized, so all the controls The driving controls are here in this single module, then you have the stereo controls here and they are also touch sensitive, then you have the climate control here, everything is very easy to use and there is the quality, so everything you touch, smooth, smooth there, smooth up there, smooth, smooth down here, and it's absolutely solid, plus the quality here I think is better than any other SUV at this price, it's absolutely beautiful, you get electric operation too. from the steering wheel there are a lot of adjustments in the seats I also like the fact that I can extend the front of the seat and look at this, I can move the back electrically and this car has upgraded leather, it's a thousand extra, but it's super soft, another improvement What it has is something called glass elements for the interior, it weighs 550 pounds, includes some pieces of glass for the star butter, the switch for the stereo and, most notable and horrible, the gear selector, it just looks a little vulgar yes Ask me what I can't complain about is the screens you have in this car.

First of all, let's talk about the driver's display. It's our standard on the x5 and you can do different things like view the satnav and check it. several elements, the only thing I don't like very much is that the rev counter runs backwards like on a Peugeot, which is a bit strange, but that doesn't mean that they can free up enough space between the dials to fit the The navigation map by Satellite is there at all times if you want it, the main infotainment screen is really good, very clear, the picture is like someone painted it, the graphics are very sharp and you can operate it in many different ways. use a spinner like that, you can use things like gesture control, i.e. to do the volume, i.e. to change tracks, there we go, it's recording it here, but actually those gestures are a trick, too you can use the buttons. on the steering wheel or on the rotary world or of course on the touch screen if you want, but the last thing about this new infotainment system is the intuitive voice command so you can talk normally, you just have to activate it by saying "Hello BMW , ride me". to the car wow perfect car now it actually takes me to carlisle you just lose a few points there bmw I'm afraid, well then it doesn't suit the midland accent very well but you get the idea of ​​the actual infotainment system itself. you just use it normally as you would.

I drive very easy to use, you can scroll through the menus right on the left side. The satnav looks great and is generally fine. The only thing I found with the satnav is that it's not the smartest, sometimes it just wants to put you on a main route, even though secondary routes would be faster. Yes, it's not up to the standard of Waze or Google Maps, I think for routes, but overall it's pretty good, as I say. really very good now to find out more about the infotainment system of this type, click on the pop-up bandwidth in the upper right corner of the screen to get more details about the interior of this car and all the technology.

Now let's talk about some of the equipment, so overall it's pretty good. in this car you get 19 inch alloy wheels you get a leather interior you get the air suspension I was talking about you get climate control step up to the m sport which is what this car is and what everyone will pretty much have , then you get a sporty body kit, you'll get 20-inch alloy wheels, upgraded brakes, sportier elements on the interior, like this sporty steering wheel. Now it's definitely worth moving on to car articles, check out our configurator and enjoy building one of these cars or any other.

Car, actually, play with it and see what kind of deals you can get on the BMW X5 or any car you choose, now it's car time. Wow, five annoying things about this car and I like it. In many other SUVs the doors don't seem to cover the thresholds and get completely dirty so when you get out you end up rubbing the back of your pants against the threshold, as you can see this happened here which is why this part is all clean . now on the whole back of my trap sir if you have the high end wilkins stereo bags you will get this beautiful metal center speaker cover here on the dash this car has the less expensive harman kardon system so It just has this unpleasant stickiness. cover, yes, it reminds you that you don't earn enough.

You can get a digital key for your mobile phone so you can open it without having to use the key. The only thing is that it only works with an Android phone. The car isn't available with Android Auto at all, just Apple Car Play, so you need an Apple phone to operate the stereo. An Android phone stops right at the doors. He is a logical captain. It's supposed to be a luxury car, but you don't get luxury. items like lumbar support which helps prevent back pain on longer trips as standard you have to pay extra for it you know what I'm not going to pay I'm going to use this instead yeah just save some money if you want it.

You can pay more for a digital key that allows you to do things remotely in the car, so just operate the windows to control the climate, but look at the screen, it's very slow to respond, it's like one of the first mobile phones with touch screen, luckily this car has a lot of cool features to help make up for all of this here are five, there are some little lights on the steering wheel that change color to give youinformation about the driving aid you're using, so when they're green it means I think it's good to go, but it can go from orange to red to give you a warning.

With surround view cameras you get a panoramic view of the car that helps you when you are parking or going through tight spaces. Also check this out. This will change to a See Above so you can see how close you can get to an obstacle. Check out this other feature. If I just slide this out, go to the 3D view. I can actually see a graphical image of the car and then I should be able to just look around. using gesture controls there let's watch the call we're filming there I'm not playing a computer game the optional laser lights can shine up to 600 meters down the road and are up to 10 times brighter than normal LEDs, but you would have to worry by oncoming traffic because they can obscure part of their light so as not to dazzle other drivers with the optional reversing assistant that the car offers.

Constantly remembering your steering movements while driving at low speed, so let's say you are in a busy parking lot and you are doing a lot of maneuvering in and out that way, the car will remember your movements for the last 50 meters, so let's say you come to a dead end or face someone coming from the opposite direction and you need to reverse anything. I have to do all those steering movements again, but the other way around it's going to affect my head, well, don't worry. you put the car in reverse, press the steering assist button, the car will then play your steering movements backwards so you can basically go through all the obstacles you just drove through a piece of cake, look at that if you get the roof panoramic glass.

It has 15,000 individual LED lighting elements, so when you change the cabin's ambient lighting, the roof color changes too. Look, it's orange, blue, now let's make it green and finally purple, it's like being in a brothel I imagine, so now I've looked around the car, let's see what it's like to drive this x5. It may be a big car, but it's not too difficult to drive around town. You have a good view because you sit quite high, in fact, you feel like you are sitting. This car instead of doing it like you do more in an Audi Q7, you don't sit as high as you would in a Land Rover Discovery, so it's still not as good for people-watching.

Visibility in all directions is everything. At that point, the rear window isn't that big, but there isn't too much of a blind spot next to the rear pillar, so it's a good thing the eight-speed automatic gearbox works lovely, you can be in normal cruise mode and you step thoroughly. It responds quickly and starts and has a quick engine. This is the three-liter inline six-cylinder diesel engine with absolutely great performance. Now the other engines you can get with this car are a three-litre petrol engine, but that's pretty thirsty. There is a more powerful three. liter of diesel with four turbos that is very fast but also very expensive this is the sweet spot in the range correct price correct economy speaking of economy I am getting I think 29 miles per gallon is not that good it can be improved only I have been shaking it up a bit all models come standard with air suspension and the air suspension is lovely it lets you float over the bumps it's really good now when you accelerate which is very easy to do with this diesel engine from 0 to 60 Around of six and a half seconds on the highway, it is very quiet, you hear almost no wind noise.

The only thing you can really hear is the tires and that could be due to underinflated tires because they make a little more noise than normal tires, yes. on the highway it's safe, an easy card for long distance travel and with the push of a button I can put things in sport mode, although obviously in sport mode you get a slightly stiffer suspension, greater throttle response, weight and direction can be really fun. SUV, that's fun, it feels like driving a BMW. Yes, you have all-wheel drive to give you grip, but it can send more power to the rear, so it feels a little more like a sports car and some of the alternatives, oh yeah.

Like if you want to see the best deals you can get on the new x5, click the pop up button in the top right corner of the screen to go to car wow and our x5 special deals page. Okay, my verdict on this car should be. avoid it if you consider it if you select it or should you just go ahead and buy it right. I think you should go ahead and buy the x5. You know it is a luxurious item, comfortable and practical to drive and full of technology. said if you enjoyed this video, click on our logo to subscribe to this channel or to see more content in the bottom right corner;

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