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For long trips, I agree with you. You cannot possibly fit everything you need even with a roof luggage box. However, I find those to be the exception and wouldn’t base a multi year large purchase on. 99% of the trips it can handle just fine. Including weekend getaways trips. Maybe not if you got babies but that time period is short. I find the x5 trunk can take 2 strollers, 2 carry ons, plus a few back packs. Plus you can put an extra bag at in the middle seat or at the kids feet as they can’t reach them anyways. |
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I think the expedition is a great vehicle, but there was a day when families used to all travel in sedans, and now we all think the day we have our first kid, it's time to order a bus. Growing up, my mom drove suburbans starting in the late 80s (before SUVs were cool) and I remember her friends thinking she was nuts. Crossover three-rows (X7, GLS, Rivian R1S) at the max will suit me just fine. If I need more than that, I am not traveling light enough.
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We are like 2 feet from putting the expedition in our garage, lol. Maybe if I didn't have my garage fridge and workbench I could cram it in, but it's not worth it. It sits on the driveway.
I can understand people not wa.ting an expedition or Tahoe or whatever. People who live in big crowded cities, small people, or just minimalist people it would be overall pointless to. But being able to have that kind of space, with no dow.sides where I live, is really really nice. |
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We need a large (Yukon Denali) and medium (x5m60i) vehicle to cover our needs. The x5 is much more fun to drive!
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The times when I feel cramped in the car does cause some extra anxiety for me, but again not enough to live with one full time. Renting one for long trips sounds like the best solution. |
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Honestly wish bmw would bring the touring model to the usa again. |
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Quite frankly, I'd put my wife and kids in a literal tank if I could, lol. |
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It’s complicated. I’m now up to 4 kids and driving a massive Expedition Max. Pros for the X3: I like the size of the X3 from a driving perspective. I have a custom ordered, exact to my spec X3 picked up during the height of pandemic prices. I intended to keep it 10 years so it wouldn’t matter. I’ll get hosed in depreciation if I sell now. Neutrals: The X5 has larger seats, but I just sat in them the other day and they’re not significantly large enough alone to warrant changing vehicles. Pros for X5: If I want to take the whole family I cannot in my x3. That becomes problematic if our other car is in the shop. I may still be looking at the X5 with the 3rd row. The Expedition has pushed my preferences a little more toward space and comfort, so the X5 is an obvious choice. That B58 engine. I’m not actively looking to make a change, but not opposed to it if I find the right car at the right price.
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04-09-2024, 09:37 AM | #81 |
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Haha, once you get used to that space it's hard to go back.
I couldn't get a rear facing car seat behind myself in an X3M. Perhaps if I had bought a specific one it would have worked, but not with the big ass Graco we have. I also wouldn't be able to go 3 wide in the back of the X5 with the Gracos. Luckily we decided 2 kids is our limit. I wish we had gone for the Max, for the larger gas tank and the extra space behind the 3rd row. Whenever it's more than the 4 of us it becomes a game of Tetris to fit everything in (we have captains chairs in ours. |
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It's funny how different everyone is on perceived space. I find our x5 feels much bigger than our x3. So does the wife. I find no difference between the x7 and the x5, even though the 7 is pre lci and the 5 is lci. It's just the 2 of us and 2 small dogs. We travel and camp a lot. There is more usable room in the x5 than both the x3 and x7 (we have captains in the x7). Compared to the x3, the depth of the x5 cargo makes a world of difference and the split tailgate is much nicer than that on the x3. We are able to fit the dog kennel on one side of the cargo area in the x5, with the seats up, and still have room on the other side for some cargo. With the seats down I can load all the gear we need, suitcase, etc and keep the kennel in place. This isn't possible in the x3 and is barely possible in the x7, at least for our typical compliment of gear. The fact that the x7's rear seats armrests stay in position, coupled with the fact that the captains don't fold flat, there just isn't enough usable room. If we had to do the x7 again, we'd go with the bench version. It gets old trying to protect the armrest / cupholder area every time we load gear.
For us the x3 is out of here soon. It's OK but not great, fun but rough ride, seems to wander more than I like. Never an issue though, other than 12k of tires during our 73k of ownership. As much as we both like the x7, and we both love the x7, that's probably out soon too. It just doesn't offer that much of an advantage over the x5, other than looks, which is obviously subjective (we both prefer the look of the pre lci x7 to the lci x5 and x7). We will likely be an x5 household in the future as I'm going back to a 2 door soon enough. The x5 is so well rounded, holds what we need, pulls what we need, looks pretty good, it's basically a perfect middle ground. If the next iteration is a styling improvement over the lci, I'd guess that's the route we'd likely go in a couple years. The only other car we're both excited about is the new GX but I want to see some real life use cases before actually considering ownership. |
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I would buy a wagon in a heartbeat. When I was a kid I hated them, and now I think they are the coolest thing on the road. I guess I am attracted to the uniqueness of them. Car handling and SUV space is even better.
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The other things is that with a wagon, you have to drop everything down into it, and lift it all up and out, and duck under the rear hatch to access the cargo area. I get it, wagons are different and we all have these memories of being kids riding in the back of them in the jump seats and nostalgia is a hell of a drug. But there's a reason they don't sell many of them, and it's not JUST the fact that silly EPA regulators effectively killed them. |
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I guess I always expected as much, but it feels weird how BMW has always 'pretended' that the X5's size is a class larger than it really is.
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Renting a larger vehicle for trips can work, but the cost can start to go up. If you have a rear hitch, you might consider a swing-away rear storage box. Lots of companies make them in various sizes and price points. https://www.etrailer.com/Hitch-Cargo...ima/Y74ZR.html Is one that can hold quite a bit of stuff and is one of the larger ones out there.
A roof-top one likely wouldn’t hold as much, will be a fuel efficiency hit whenever attached, and can add a level of wind noise. I’ve carried stuff behind before, and it does not seem to be a noticeable hit on efficiency. You have to be careful when backing up and it may obstruct the rear camera, so there are some downsides to it. |
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