2000 BMW X5
FRANKFURT - BMW offers its X5 as an alternative to all those clunky sport utilities currently clogging our traffic arteries. Unlike those truck-based station wagons so popular with today's soccer parents, the X5 uses an independent suspension both front and rear. The vehicle also incorporates a unibody structure, as opposed to the body-on-frame design found in most of today's SUVs.
While its design is clearly carlike, the X5's recent crash-test scores should give it a fighting chance against even the largest of trucks. In both frontal collision and offset crash testing, the X5 scored top marks by European, Japanese and US standards. It also scored five out of five stars in side-impact collisions because of its advanced B-pillar design and integrated head airbags. Of course, avoiding a collision altogether is the best way to avoid injury, and the X5 comes standard with dynamic stability control as well as automatic differential brake technology to maximize driver control.
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