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The X5 earned five stars from NHTSA but hasn’t yet been put through IIHS’s full testing regimen, so it misses that agency’s Top Safety Pick award. Active-safety tech is available throughout the X5 lineup, but adding the features will boost the sales price, sometimes significantly, which stands in stark contrast with rivals that offer such items as standard.
Crash Test Results
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the nonprofit, independent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) evaluate vehicles for crashworthiness in the United States. NHTSA assigns cars an overall rating out of five stars. IIHS uses a different set of tests, grades cars on a scale of Good to Poor, and awards the vehicles that perform best across its tests with Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick+ honors, the latter of which requires that the subject’s automated forward-collision-braking system performs well.
Read more about how NHTSA and the IIHS crash-test cars here.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Test Results
2018 BMW X5
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Test Results
2018 BMW X5
Airbags, Child Seats, and Spare Tire Location
In its testing, IIHS noted that the X5’s LATCH anchors were buried too deeply in the seat, but we must respectfully disagree. Our rear-facing infant seat installed easily and didn’t hog too much space behind the front seats.
Active-Safety Features
BMW offers plenty of active-safety features on the X5, but unfortunately nothing is standard. Most of those features require you to shell out for expensive option packages or even to step up to the V-8–powered model, which starts $16,850 more than the base sDrive35i. Ouch. However, one trick the X5 offers that its rivals don’t is a night-vision-camera system. It uses infrared cameras to help detect pedestrians or wildlife in your path when driving at night; it’s a $2300 option but requires the addition of the $1150 Premium package.
Backup Camera
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