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New X5 - Innovative Technology and Even More Powerful Engines.
Tue Dec 04 12:42:28 CET 2012 Press Release
Thoroughly upgrading a wide range of important features, BMW is making the highly successful X5 even better. Some four years after its market launch, the world’s first Sports Activity Vehicle remains very popular among customers the world over. Now, to increase this high level of popularity even further, BMW’s engineers and designers have thoroughly upgraded the large off-road athlete in the BMW X-family, giving this outstanding vehicle a wide range of both technical innovations and design updates.
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The new, intelligent xDrive all-wheel-drive system, new and even more powerful engines, and the improvement of striking design elements, are the highlights of this model update. As a result, the X5 will remain the perfect vehicle for the sports-minded driver also in future, the individualist seeking to combine the magnificent handling and driving behaviour of a BMW with the unique commanding position and a very wide range of applications and purposes also off the beaten track.
New engines: more power, more driving pleasure, more economy.
Together with its update, the X5 is re-entering the market with no less than three new engines: A new 4.4-litre V8 petrol unit, the new 3.0-litre common rail diesel, and the new top-of-the-range 4.8-litre V8 high-performance engine (available from the second half of 2004). In its performance on- and offroad, the X5 3.0i furthermore benefits from the new six-speed manual gearbox and the xDrive all-wheel-drive system.
The new BMW 4.4-litre V8 petrol engine with VALVETRONIC valve
control,
bi-VANOS and fully variable intake manifold has already
set the standard
in terms of performance and motoring refinement
in the new BMW 7 Series. Now this engine, modified to meet the
requirements of a Sports Activity Vehicle, is presenting its benefits
also in the X5 4.4i. Developing maximum output of 235 kW, the
4.4-litre V8 accelerates this outstanding model to 100 km/h in just
7.0 seconds. Top speed, in turn, is 240 km/h, provided the vehicle is
fitted with a sports package (including V-rated high-speed tyres).
Fitted with H-rated tyres, in turn, top speed is limited
electronically to 210 km/h.