Comments on: Taking a “crossover” offroad means trouble

By: assassin

assassin — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:18:58 +0000

what was your feeling when you got stuck a meter away from the street?
this is embarrassing man.

By: mohamad

mohamad — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:55:36 +0000

porsche doesn’t give us cars they give us (planes) and rockets. and as ali said an suv should have offroad abilities.
my friend took a training course in their service center in dubai.
and he was shocked that most X5s are suffering because their owners
tried to take it of road (for ex. the sensor for the leveling of the head lights in most X5s that did an off road experiance are dameged). and really you can’t compare the off road abilities of the X5 to the porsche
cayanne or touareg (lets say it in other words, X5 is made for on-road driving and really i know it is very good in that).
its really shocking (two meters away from the pavement)

By: ali

ali — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:40:18 +0000

you are all talking too much.an SUV should have offroad abilities.full stop

By: Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury

Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:40:24 +0000

Jakomo, Porsche and Audi does not give us cars, and Mercedes never has anything in their press fleet.

By: diego

diego — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:36:38 +0000

yeah yeah ciby singh

By: jakomo

jakomo — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:42:31 +0000

How do you compare this X5 to Cayenne, Q7 and ML?

By: cb

cb — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:23:19 +0000

lol diego im not saying mash is wrong. i do agree that awds will not perform as good as proper 4wds offroad. but criticising awd vehicles mainly for its offroading ability does not really do justice to it and is misleading. look at the 1st post 4 eg. “its hilarious”

By: Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury

Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:18:35 +0000

Diego you dumbass, cb was just repeating to me what I told him six months ago.

By: diego

diego — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:14:58 +0000

hahah. bowled mashfi. hehehe. hope he learns a lesson…yo cb

By: cb

cb — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:16:28 +0000

not really. most people who buy awds drive it where it is meant to rock: onroad. in the case of the x5, compare its handling with lets say the landcruiser. u know the result. nowhere does it say that a vehicle with better ride height than cars must perform well offroad. besides the taller than car height is an advantage in city traffic. n why get a proper 4wd when one is sure they will not be doing any dune bashing? but i have to say that people who get offroading vehicles like landcruisers and use it strictly 4 daily purposes may fall under the above mentioned category

By: Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury

Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:08:13 +0000

“u get a awd when u want something that gives u a higher ride height than cars but still handles very well and can do some light offroading.”

In other words, to be a poseur.

By: cb

cb — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:23:44 +0000

why do u get mixed up between truck based 4wds and car based awds? The x5 is NOT a 4wd vehicle. its an crossover AWD suv. you buy a 4wd when you wanna do some serious offroading. u get a awd when u want something that gives u a higher ride height than cars but still handles very well and can do some light offroading. awd is there to enhance the handling and for light offroading like an occasional trip to the beach. like u said, awds will easily handle moderate flat sand and the occasional dunes under hard throttle but they were never designed to challenge a proper 4wd with low range gearing (for eg. a land cruiser) in an offroad competition.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:31:59 +0000

thatz y im buyin a vw touareg v8 instead of an x5!

By: diego

diego — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:41:24 +0000

feel so sorry for you friend… you should haev callled me,, would have helped you for sure…with my car lol

By: a fan

a fan — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:02:43 +0000

ouch

By: ali

ali — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:07:59 +0000

for thousands of $ ,and cannot offroad;its hilarious