BMW X5 review (27/03/2014)

IT IS said that the older you get the quicker time passes you by and that certainly has not been lost on yours truly as the years dash past.

It was something of a shock to the system to note recently that it is 15 years since BMW first shook up the 4x4 market with the truly revolutionary X5.

Before its arrival in 1999, apart from the Range Rover, there was absolutely nothing sophisticated about the genre, but since then the rush to copy — or at least claim some of the massive market share the X5 claimed for itself — the BMW machine seemed to be unduly rushed, if understandable.