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The BMW X5 M50d is proof that, contrary to popular belief, four into six goes just fine. Suggest that to your primary school teacher and you’ll probably earn yourself some extra homework. Say it to a BMW powertrain engineer, however, and he’ll just nod and smile wryly.
In fact, when four turbochargers are forcing compressed air into the six inline cylinders of the BMW X5 M50d’s diesel engine, there is much that seems to go – and go rather well. This car is the M Performance ‘caretaker boss’ of Munich’s new fourth-generation X5 range, all set to be in charge until the M division lets loose another equally regrettable and inevitable BMW X5 M wide boy.
The M50d’s engine develops 395bhp and 561lb ft. It’s a way off matching the headline figures of what every road tester will feel duty-bound to acknowledge as its mortal rival, the Audi SQ7 – not that many of the M50d’s likely BMW devotee owners, who would probably sooner set light to their annual bonus than spend it on an Audi, will much care.
What’s much more interesting is that BMW is sticking to its guns and continuing to back a high-performance diesel engine for this car, after Porsche has abandoned them entirely and is preferring, along with the likes of Land Rover and Volvo, to look to high-output plug-in hybrids in this kind of SUV.
There will, of course, be a new X5 ‘PHEV’ along in due course, too; but it won’t be positioned at a like-for-like level as the M50d in X5 model hierarchy. Which probably tells you at least as much about the maturing that BMW thinks its hybrid powertrain technology still needs to do as it does about how stubbornly Munich may be inclined to hold onto its long-nurtured performance diesel engine technology lead.
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2016 yılında T.C. Başkent Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’nden mezun oldum. Avukatlık stajımı Ankara Barosu’nda tamamladım. 2018 yılı Mart ayında kendi hukuk büromu faaliyete geçirdim. Avukatlık mesleğime devam ederek 2016-2018 yılları arasında Ankara Barosu’na bağlı olarak İcra Hukuku, Ceza Hukuku, Aile Hukuku alanlarında çalışmalarım oldu.
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Petrol Electric PHEVs are unsatisfactory . . .
. . . Diesel Electrics are far better. That's a terrific engine but I'd rather have it in a PHEV.
Isn't it time BMW actually perfected this thing?
They've had long enough, surely. By rights it should be clocking up 4.5 stars by now.
Anyhow, fair play for sticking with diesel. It's the only viable fuel for cars of this bulk. And while we're on the subject of bulk, and seeing as driveways and garages aren't expanding but vehicles are - the time has also come for Autocar to start including H x L x W (Inc mirrors) stats in all reviews.
Cobnapint wrote:
Keep in mind that this review is by Matt 'in love with anything JLR' Saunders, as are the comments by the ususal suspects that habitually slagg off BMWs and big up RRs in the same breath. In the real world, if BMW products are as "hopleless", "hedious" or "unreliable" as the brand's online bashers claim, the company wouldn't be where it is now, which is very successful.