Yeah. Whatever the DMV gives you.

How does it handle the transition from the driveway to the street? Our driveway rather steep and I’m concerned it’ll reverse too fast and bottom out on the front.

Assuming you have a recent version of parking assist pro, it seems to work best if you’re creeping slowly along. I don’t use it often, but when I have, it’s worked very well.

I mostly use the various modes to avoid curbing my wheels in drive through and parking lots.

Depends what your priorities are. For me, comfort is important, and an X5 is very comfortable.

For something sportier, maybe an X3 (M40i because you’d miss the engine otherwise). Or maybe one of the grand coupes.

But, me? I’d get another X5.

All you have to say is no. When I bought my 2024 X5, the finance lady was visibly frustrated and then just went into not caring mode. I said no to everything that I didn’t want.

There was some stupid car tracker thing.

“No”

“But it’s already on the car”

“No”

It really is that simple.

As far as the deal, once you know what you want, call every dealer within a few hours and tell them you’re about to place an order and will they give you an offer. Some may say that you have to come in, to which you say it’s not worth your time.

I had four dealers in SF Bay Area bidding against each other. Got a decent discount off MSRP.

As far as what to order, for me, the must haves were

Driver Assistance Pro which you have to order with the parking one, but it’s good too.

Multi -Contour seats - This ups the comfort level on the standard seat by a lot.

Premier package or whatever the one below exec is called. You want the HUD and at least the HK stereo

Climate comfort pack

The packages I ended up getting in addition

• M Sport - The suspension is a nice feature. Also, the base trim looks awful and cheap. Those unpainted fenders and back bumper look like something off a Ford Edge. The front bumper is also weird, but passable. Also, the base steering wheel looks and feels cheap. The M sport wheel is a huge upgrade.

• Merino leather : The sensafin seats are ok. They’ll likely require less maintenance. But, if I’m spending over $80K on a car, I don’t want fake leather seats. The Merino looks and feels much better. If the option was Dakota or the other cheaper BMW leathers, then it probably wouldn’t be worth it, but Merino is their best leather and it’s really nice.

• Exec package- hadn’t planned on getting the exec package because most of the features are dumb, but the base console controles really detract from the interior. The sky lounge thing is really dumb and it has to be dark above to really see it so no streetlights. The soft touch doors are really pointless and is probably something that’ll break. The shades are nice but you can order that separately.

Whatever model BMW you have is the worst design ever and the older version is better. Also, your grille is all wrong.

Welcome and don’t curb your wheels

The grille/front on the left looks like an iX and Lexus had an ugly baby.