This robs you of the sensation of feeling instantly at home with the steering's rate of response (particularly if the roads are damp, when there's very little sign from the steering of understeer or the onset of oversteer), and weighting isn't ideal either - what feels just about meaty
enough at normal pace doesn't translate into any extra weight when you start loading up the chassis, which can be disconcerting.
Aasif Mandvi hits his (very odd, in fairness) role
at about twice the volume and
pace of anyone else, Justin Bartha barely figures, Mia Farrow is sweet
enough, but doesn't make much of an impact, and Christopher Walken is interestingly restrained, adhering to
normal human punctuation for the first time in recent memory, but
at the same time, hiring Walken to play an average suburban dad is about like hiring Jason Statham for a film where he doesn't punch someone in the face.
Even the lowest powered engine is
enough to get the X5 moving
at a decent
pace, but if you want to trade in some of the
normal X5's off - road prowess for some on - road performance, the top - of - the - line X5 M can sprint to 60 mph in four seconds flat and handles far better than any SUV should.