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So very few people would find that a requirement in a vehicle. So it's irrelevant to the vast majority of people at best.
You must die a fiery restbuttuming the one flash is not from a Landrover driven by a complete nutter:- I watched in my mirrors as a white Landrover gradually fought his...
Perhaps you ought to take advantage of the less obvious sightlines available to aid your observation a little more often, then.
I suggest you look at EuroNCAP's figures.
Basic physics.
Higher mbutt + higher CoG + longer travel suspension + compromised tyres = reduced stability.
There's been numerous studies to prove it.
Hardly "prestige".
the CR-V is marginally worse than the Accord, and the Impreza gets one star of five for Ownership Costs.
Go and look at JD Power on the Merc ML for a fine example. (Mind you, the E-clbutt is panned, too.)
Which bit of "comparing apples-with-apples" do you find difficult?
X5 3.0d Auto - combined 30.1mpg, 250g-km, Euro III 530d Auto - combined 37.7mpg, 200g-km, Euro IV
ML270CDI (W163) Auto - combined 31mpg, 241g-km, Euro III E270CDI Auto - combined 41.5mpg, 180g-km, Euro III
CR-V 2.2CDTi - combined 42.2mpg, 177g-km, Euro IV Accord 2.2CDTi - combined 52.3mpg, 143g-km, Euro IV (and that's despite being "handicapped" by "only" a 5spd box to the CR-V's 6spd)
Primera 2.2TD - combined 46.3mpg, 164g-km, Euro III
Find me some apples-with-apples comparisons where the SUV-soft-roader direct equivalent is even roughly similar.
So not much of a differentiator, is it?
Oh, and in the X5-5-series example, there's just over a £4k price difference. Three guesses which way?
For the same £38k as the X5 3.0d Auto, you can get all the metallic-leather.toys that make something like an X5-5-series saleable when it comes to changing it. Yes, the X5 carries a slight resale premium - roughly the same as the 5-series, so the depreciation loss is similar. That's with the (aging) X5 still being "fashionable". The newer model 5- series is far more likely to hold solid over the next three years.
It means they are probably more likely to be stolen. Half the nicked BMWs are X5s, despite being a small percentage of BMWs on the road? So a higher proportion of X5s than other BMWs get nicked. OK, so it *may* be a skewed data set, if X5s are more likely to have these trackers fitted for some reason.
Actually, I have. On and off-road.
Not in the vast majority of on-road conditions.
