It’s hard to remember, but the original BMW X5 was quite a departure from the SUV norm when it was launched at the end of the 1990s. While most of its rivals were heavy, bulky machines with a ...
As a result, the E53 became both the first X5 generation and BMW's first SUV (in case you're curious, E53 is the factory code for the first BMW X5 generation). BMW's goal at the time was to create ...