German Car Forum

I prefer the X5 3.0d above any of the aforementioned vehicles.

Seriously though, the 4.8iS is more than enough for me, the noise it makes even at slow speeds is wild!

lOl Just_me, My comment wasn`t in defence of Mercedes, it was in defence
of the power figures. My point was the ML63 has 510hp while this LaMans has700hp 190hp more, the Lamans is just 0.3 seconds faster which is nothing.

I also complained about the Brabus CLS with 700hp and a 0-60 with a 0-100km/h time of 4.5 seconds. with that much power it should be more like 3.5s or better. ( I think you remember that) thats just too darn slow imo. don`t you think??

probably a question of grip, instead imagine 0-200 or 0-250km/h, then we talk about several seconds. Or if you do a rolling start from lets say 100km/h. Dont look to much on 0-100km/h figures and who knows it might be faster than 4,7 sec, only BMW has driven this car and it only exist one car. No carmag has ever driven the car, its just a concept

Rolling starts are cool but thay only posted 0-100km/h times. I believe I do have a magazine test of the X5 LaMans, I`ll have to find it. This concept is a couple of years old.

there is a video of BMW testdriver driving the car and talking about the car. Im almost certain no carmag ever driven the car, probably only interviewed the driver.

its not my fault there are only 0-100times but knowing the car is faster than CLK-DTM and 996TT around Nordschleife is all I need to know this car is something special.

Wow! now that is pretty darn impressive!!

I believe the test was done by MoterTrend. Again, I`ll look for it later. I`ll try to look for tests online as well.

You guys realise that the Le Mans needs a new engine every 500 km, right?

Other than that little annoying detail, the Le Mans is beyond cool

its a Lemans engine for crying out loud, the engine is extremly special

Hahaha, yes it is. But a little inconvenient when you have to drive from The Hague to Switserland with your skies

the topspeed is 311km/h, must be scary with a SUV...

Wait a sec, are you for real?! thats crazy and very expensive!


I found an article on the X5 LeMans. Thay don`t give a top speed of 311km/h, thay say it`s 278km/h, still plenty fast. : http://www.bmwworld.com/models/x5_lemans.htm

Munich/Nurburg. BMW is always good for causing a sensation as far as the time for completing a lap at the Nurburgring is concerned not only on the occasion of the European Grand Prix: only a few days before this event the racing driver Hans-Joachim Stuck driving the X5 LeMans completed the 20.8 km northern circuit of the Nurburgring in 7.49,92 minutes, which is an incredible result. In the straight he reached a top speed of 311 km/h. The X5 LeMans concept car is mostly based on the series-production X5 and demonstrates the BMW Sports Activity Vehicle's enormous potential in terms of technology.

So far it has been considered to be impossible for a Sports Activity Vehicle to break the magic 8-minute record in the so-called "Green Hell". The time it took the X5 LeMans to complete the loop has so far been expected only from specially tuned racing cars or thoroughbred sport coupes. By comparison: the BMW 320i completed the famous circuit in the Eifel area at the Super Touring Car Championship in 7.37 minutes. Under perfect conditions it takes a modern BMW sports car like the Z8, that delivers 400 bhp, 8.16 minutes to do this distance.
The X5 LeMans concept car has been modified only slightly compared to the series-production version. It is powered by the V12 engine of the prize-winning car in Le Mans in 1999, which produces more than 700 bhp and a torque of 720 Nm. The suspension has been lowered by 30 millimetres. The external dimensions basically correspond to those of the series-production X5. Inside the comfortable standard seats have been replaced by four sporty bucket seats. Aluminium is predominant all around.
The idea behind the concept car is of technological origin: the BMW engineers wanted to find out in practice and demonstrate the X5's absolute limits. It was a pleasant side-effect that it turned out to be a very attractive showpiece that already caused a great stir at the Geneva Motor Show in 2000.

that depend on where you read. On Nrunburing they reached a topspeed of 311km/h, See Klier article.

Yeah, I know. Too bad BMW won`t produce a version of this X5.