The 4.8is was an awesome car... This is kind of an interesting topic especially because over easter i was driven in the new X5 down to Sandiego and the old E53 fl X5 up from san deigo. The new X5 is better than the old one by a huge margin. Not only does it look better, its more comfortable, the seats are better, the interior is more organized and it has cool features like traffic avoiding GPS and hidden back up cameras and all that shit....It really is a fantastic car-heres a pic of the one we drove down-not a 4.8 unfortunately.