Will a BMW X5 Accomodate 2 Bikes in the back??
 

As the Twin Turbo 911 does not lend itself to carrying bikes (except on a roof rack which I do not want to fit), I am thinking of a second hand 4WD with some class to use on bad weather days AND to take a couple of bikes in nice evenings , to the forests.
Will an X5 do the business?

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Welcome to the I have more money than sense thread ...

an X5 :Suspiciou

It can definitely fit a small child on the back seat, I have visually confirmed this every morning whilst driving past our local school! :Whatever_

As the Twin Turbo 911 does not lend itself to carrying bikes (except on a roof rack which I do not want to fit), I am thinking of a second hand 4WD with some class to use on bad weather days AND to take a couple of bikes in nice evenings , to the forests.
Will an X5 do the business?

The answer is not unless they are strapped to the outside! Get an old Landie it'll get you to the moon and as waaaaay more class the X5!

911 Turbo and you want to ride a push bike, have a word with yourself, tell you what I will drop you and you bike off if I can use the 911 :D

People carriers are better for carrying bikes than 4 * 4's, lower to lift in and less space used for superfluous running gear, and since when did an X5 have class, flash : Yes, imposing : yes, classy Noooooooo, RR Sport, Cayenne and Touareg are the same, just says loads of money and doesnt care who knows it.

Class is a Morgan, an old Merc, a Bristol etc, if you really must a Range Rover, a mint 1980's vogue is quite classy.

get it right man! It is a TWIN TURBO 911.

Are you suggesting that Dave is fulfilling a kind of Passive NACRO style role ?

We are getting a little sensitive to discussion of wealth on here, I think NACRO has made it get a little Socialist Workers Party.

Dave, I am sure your post was done in good faith but perhaps it would be better so say,

I have a really old, practically ancient two door car, made by a spin off from Volkswagen you know, wheezy old thing with the engine in the back, a bit like a Beetle that some idiot has seen fit to attach a pair of these hairdryer shaped things to in a vain attempt to make it drag its sorry arse along a bit faster than walking pace, anyway It isn't suitable for carrying my bicycles so what cheap car could I buy that would enable me to carry said bicycles. Obviously it would have to fit in with the communist party ethic and be really agricultural, would the Bavarian Motern Werke XXXXX be a suitable coinveyance ?

tut tut another spelling mistake :D it is Bayerische Mist Wagon.

porsche has to be better for carrying bikes than the ferrari though dave :D

I'm thinking it would have gone down better if you'd said "my other car does not lend itself to carrying bikes" It does seem a bit NACRO ish in approach to be honest...

That's what I was thinking. Anyhow, I'm thinking of selling my Enzo as I can't fit my gallon drum of caviar in the boot. Anyone recommend a stupidly impratical and expensive 4x4 so I can fit it in for my once a month trip? ;)

You can probably get 3 bikes in the back and if you are lucky enough, a slapper in the passenger seat :D

Steve

Dave,

I've got the new style X5 - wouldn't entertain the old one as it just didn't have enough boot space. I've certainly had 2 bikes in the back of mine.

Any pics of your 911? I've maybe seen it going through Dyce - fancying a Porker myself to replace the STi V3 I've got tucked up in the garage.

Thanks for the SENSIBLE reply. I was hoping for more like this than an attack on my choice of car. However, I hope the others who responded in other ways feel better now!!
Yes, it is likely you have seen me in Dyce as my office is behind BP.

:confused: Picked up a 53 Touareg sport for 13k hardly loads of money is it :wonder:

And a 1980's vogue = classy. have you been inside one? may have been at the time, but now it's an old nail :p

Oh, I can't see the Touareg fitting a couple of bikes in, cant check ours now because of a ruddy great gas tank being in the way, so out goes the Cayenne too. They may go in an old ML, but they are pants to drive, Petrol 5.0 is fast but steering wheel gives no feedback.

Discovery may be the answer, the new one is the same chassis/interior as nicked by the RRS and at least you could use it off road!

Alright, perhaps the Touareg isn't quite as bling. Old Range Rovers are classy if obviously owned from new by the truly posh, granted on a manky council estate with a 10 inch lift and a shaved headed bruiser driving it, it retains none of that. The new RR does look classy, trouble is round here its full of them, the Sport is nice but there are so many of them.

I kind of like 4 * 4s as they wind up the greenies and for now kind of divert attention from performance cars but unless I had a need for off road ability I wouldn't buy one, none of the posh ones really have that much space for carrying bikes, the X5 isnt that big inside, we had a Sharan before and you could get 3 mountain bikes in that with the seats out, with them stood up, in 4 * 4s you would need an Amazon, Patrol or something like that to get the same space. I appreciate no people carrier is cool or classy but space wise they are great, depends whether the ego can cope with driving one !

You get used to it, honest.

No no no no no no no no no..!
 

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Thule do classy roof-racks :thumb:

Personally I hated my x5. Not that big inside warning lights kept flashing on and off at random for no reason and tyres were £250 each and did not last very long. BMW 's just are not reliable compared to Subarus etc.

Landrover 110 defender! There is nothing else to say is there????

The problem with these posh 4x4s is you would be constantly shouting at the kids if they scratch it getting their bikes in and out of it or if you had to take it off road. Landy 110 defender is tough as old boots and you can take it off road without worrying about scratching it. If it gets scratched you just touch up the paint.

What are you on about? Touching the paint up? :confused: For God's sake, man, listen to yourself. You shouldn't be able to see the paintwork of a 110 for all the mud it's covered in! :rolleyes: Everyone who knows anything about modifying 110s will tell you that the first thing you have to do is remove the mud flaps!

;) :D

yeah! What he said :D

The second modification is installing either a working dog, or a gun dog :D

Heaven forbid you might actually ride your mountain bike instead of just posing around with it in some chav chariot. :lol1:

Defenders are crap though. The seat does not move back so you cannot sit in one comfortably unless you are 4ft high they drive like a truck, the heater does not actually blow out any hot air and look at one cross and it gets scratched.

X5'S are crap..are ya a man or a mouse,get a proper offroader..get a Landcruiser

Would the average Defender owner worry about a scratch :D

Dont use an X5 paradigm on a Defender.

Given the blatant willy waving in the opening post what did you expect? As Jacko said it's not de rigeur to come over all Harry Enfield 'I'm considerably richer than yau!'.

FFS Guys, the guy only asked a question, good luck to him. :thumb:

2 bikes wont fit in the back of my ML but try the GL its got loads of space plus the back seats fold down electrically.

I've just been out to the garage and I can confirm that I can fit a Matchbox BMW X5 in the saddle bag of my mountain bike!

Not sure if that helps? :cuckoo: