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Looks like a real M-version of the X5 is on is way...

Spied BMW X5 M Prototype Shows New Evidence

The front seems to have the X6 bumpers we 've already seen a couple of weeks ago on an X5... However this time it seems to have also M type of exhaust . It can of course still be a sporty , but non-M version... at least we have something to talk about again

I was checking those pics out on ., you beat me by a minute!

Sorry...I was wondering , if somebody would beat me on these one..
I wanted to start a new thread so badly, at least once

Don't be sorry, being 1st is what it's all about! And considering we have members all over the world, you should be proud of yourself!

My first thought was a new X5 IS version. But the exhaust really looks like a M setup. In combination with the X6-style front it looks to me like a X6-M mule in X5-clothes. Just like they did with the first M3 prototypes in sedan form...

Best regards, south

Likely not an M car, but rather the rumored 5.4 engine as a "sport". Last model, there were suggestions that the 4.6is and 4.8is were going to receive an M badge, but they determined that an X5 just wasn't M material. I expect the same here, but look forward, nevertheless, to owning and driving this car.

its the turbocharged V8 being tested, my money on that.

EDIT:
Our photographer also reported a very different engine sound on this prototype, which pointed to the likelihood of a V-10 or twin-turbo V8 stuffed under this prototype’s hood.

Did anybody notice that the outer exhaust tips are shorter than the inner exhaust tips. Isn't that a feature of all M cars?

For comparison an M5 mule:

[source: m5board.com ]

Besides that does the X5 have a wider track. Too much change for the IS IMHO...

Best regards, south

This are first testings of V10 S85 engine used on X6 platform.

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They are using E70 body since X6 body still isn't in full production, yet only few X6 testing prototypes are cruising around.


BMW used the same method in 135i case: testing N54 engine, brakes, suspension etc in E81 hatch body.

That's what I thought....

Best regards, south

You were spot on! Very nice! I believed you before Eni came in

Just awesome. The X6 with V10 ///M version. This will be the real deal. The SUV that kills ALL other SUVs

Nope, it isn't an SUV. It's an SAC (according to BMW).

BMW X5 M Spotted Again

X plus V = M





We have been aware of a BMW X5 M prototype since it was innitially spotted in the Death Valley in July but news has been sporadic if not completely absent. Multiple rumours about the engines have been surfacing like a twin-turbo V8 (which seems to be finding its way to the next BMW M5). But it is still a safer bet that the V12 engine from BMW's 760i delivering 438 bhp will be powering the X5 M, which would still blow the 272 bhp 3.0 liter in-line six and 355 bhp 4.3 liter V8 found in the regular X5 out of the water. Proof is the 2000 BMW X5 LeMans experimental vehicle which sported the 700 bhp 6.0 liter V12 from the 1999 winning LeMans race car.
And how we can be so sure that this is the BMW X5 M and not just another X5. The two sets of twin exhaust tips are a dead give-away and the front bumper has bigger air-intakes ensuring more efficient colling of both brakes and the engine.
BMW X5 M Spotted Again

I'm curious... will there even be an X5 4.8iS replacement? or will demand for iS and M variants be filled by the sportier X6?


This really is a BIG step-up by BMW in recent times. They have so many projects in the testing stage. New 7er, X6 still not put into production, F5 LSC, and now the X6-M variant being tested under the guise of the M5 body.

Let's just hope they call it X5 6.0iS and not X5 M!

The 4.4 litre TT V8 will replace the 4.8i X5, and there is a high probability that what we might be looking is the X5 with the TT V8 engine in it.

Probably be a X5 5.0i

Not is it uses the 6.0 V12

Do you mean the Lemans concept V12, or the pictures of what is being tested?
If it is what the pictures are showing, I believe it might be the turbocharged V8- I could be wrong though.

No not that V12... but the one form the 760i is also rumoured.

Although I agree with you... the T-V8 is more likely.

More pics

That is bearing the looks of something that is ready to be released for the public.

I agree, but for a TT V8 or V10 i expect some different body kit too.

A TT V8 could be a replacement for the 4.8i X5 hence maintaining the same body style. With regards to the V10, I have my doubts about it in the X5 but probably in the X6.