RedFive

That's the spirit !

Notice how many of the "ooh, it's so anti-social" posters often complain about this world being "too damned PC".

M444GY

iTrader: (72)

x5 is a **** car anyways . u can pick em up for about 15 grand now and stick any x5 plate on it.

they are like clitorises , every ***** got one !

driven by bleached blond slagbags droppin of little wayne and beyonce to school!

i hate them to , u might of guessed

Tiggs

thats an interesting point of view, you've certainly moved the debate forward.

TopBanana

Yes I too am intrigued by your input.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

So, to recap, to make yourself very unpopular on Scoobynet, drive an X5,

Somehow, I dont think things are quite as simple, there are perfectly ordinary law abiding moderate X5 drivers and there are outside lane hogging, Disabled space parking, agressive, rude, intolerant X5 extremist nutters. and these are the ones that need rooting out and sending back to the Proton dealership. The Police are reluctant to prosecute these people as they are afraid of the backlash, they have good representation and can be very clever, I personally think a week in a Saab would calm them down.

davyboy

I need to get an X5 just to make a bunch of losers on a website so angry....

12 pagers of hate for a car and it's owners

I guess that is fairly insignificant to the pages and pages slagging off Impreza drivers on this and other BBS.

Tiggs

got to admit i have seen a few around of late and they are starting to look pretty cool

X5 section in the members gallery

RedFive

"Black X5 corner here"

Diablo

I'm thinking about going one further and sticking an "X5" badge on my soon
to be delivered 1 series

Mixing the ugly, overpriced, can't afford a "real" BMW tosser image with the big, overpriced, image obsessed BMW tosser image

That combination should make them go apoplectic

Diablo

Mark,

There is one parked outside my office at the moment in a dark metalic gray with the big BWM rims, no chrome, no blacked out windows and it looks very, very nice and night and day removed in the class stakes than the cheap nasty looking blobeye sport wagon in WR blue parked behind it..

Brendan Hughes

Absolutely PMSL - do you think you can get a scooby bonnet scoop on it too?

jonc

...and don't forget the gold wheels and perhaps big bright red mud flaps rally stylee.

JamieMacdonald

Photoshop photoshop photoshop

It must be done

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

I can't pin point my dislike for the car. Actually I don't think it is the car, it's not jelousy, as I regulary enjoy the equivelent 5-series counterpart (which is a better drivers car) and its not fashion or desire, as my preference is small super light cars with huge engines, and not wallowy pseudo off-roaders.

I think it is more so the "type" of person I typically find driving them, granted, not everyone is the same but you can't ignore demographic tendencies

As I like BMWs, but I can argue that the brand, amongst others attracts certain types of poeple to buy then. I think the best label for the types of poeple I'm trying to describe are the "plastic poeple" or "plastic society", the ones who ride on a whim of fashion and like to think they are more than they really are - both mentally and physically. The poeple I love to show up for their true worth (a bad and rude, but amusing habit, I will admit ).

I'm tempted to start a Mini thread - is it me or do people tend to drives these as if they are "small" cars (which they are clearly are not...compared to an old Mini), forcing their way through gaps only big enough for mopeds.

Spring Heeled Jack

Or you could use the flipside of the argument - '12 pages of losers trying to justify their poor choice of car'.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Ali, very nicely summed up, I suppose its a case of the X5 being a good vehicle but a lot of 'car' people dont want to be associated with that much negative baggage (does that make us equally shallow), I suspect as prices drop it will get worse. Part of me likes them, but it does make me slightly queasy seeing ranks of them outside TK-Maxx, why ffs would you buy a 40 grand car to go and root through 5 year out of date 'designer' tat, or perhaps thats the point, its got to have a label for some.

I do sympathise with the more knowledgeable, urbane, empathetic, enthusiast X5 driver, I expect if I had one I would have to explain why I bought it and why I am not really like that and no my shirt isnt from TK-Maxx.

Despite all the protestations, the X5's image is probably the most polarising fact about it, you either would sell your granny for one or not be seen dead in it, how is it the Volvo XC90 doesnt illicit such opinions because its just as big, I see an XC90 and I think, hmmm, quite nice those, is it perhaps because the typical owner is less aggressive ?

However there is some relief for the X5 owner, the Cayenne is getting more common and the Range Rover sport is flashtastic and thrusty looking, I am expecting great things from its drivers, saw one mount the kerb to get past traffic in a busy shopping street the other day.

Patt@firstime

What a prize ***** you really are