2019 BMW X5 Rolls Into Dealers in Time for Turkey Day
When the redesigned 2019 BMW X5 goes on sale some two weeks before Thanksgiving, the top-end, V-8-powered xDrive50i will set you back $76,745 with destination, or about as much as America’s priciest restaurant turkey dinner. Unlike the latter, the X5 does not proffer foie gras stuffing or caviar-topped potatoes. But it does pack a 456-horsepower, turbocharged V-8 and standard all-wheel drive, plus two 12.3-inch dashboard screens, adaptive LED headlights and a panoramic moonroof.
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Minus the V-8, the six-cylinder X5 xDrive40i serves as the base model for 2019 as of this writing, and it starts at $61,695. That gets you a turbo six-cylinder engine good for 335 hp, plus all the other features at a price that’s $1,200 north of the outgoing, turbo six-cylinder X5 xDrive35i.
Standard features in the five-seat SUV include the dashboard screens, LEDs and moonroof mentioned above, plus driver-adjustable shock absorbers, a navigation system, a blind spot warning system and forward collision warning with low-speed automatic emergency braking. Optional features are air springs and active stabilizer bars, as well as cabin comforts like heated armrests, Bowers & Wilkins premium audio, and heated and cooled cupholders. (Balk all you want, but the trick cupholders have been around for a while.) Eventually, a third-row seat will also join the options.
With the outgoing X5, BMW offered a base rear-drive variant called the sDrive35i that started at $58,195 — $3,500 less than the least expensive 2019 X5. The automaker may yet reprise the lower-priced variant, however, as spokesman Oleg Satanovsky told us BMW plans to offer a rear-drive X5 40i at some point. It also plans to cook up plug-in hybrid and higher-performance versions of the SUV — both available with the outgoing generation — but announcements are still to come. A diesel version for the U.S. “is a possibility,” Satanovsky added, but a decision is pending. The 2019 X5 goes on sale Nov. 10.
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