BMW X5 owners, your help is needed!

The new 2010 BMW X5 LCI: Yes, it’s extremely able on the road, and the mechanical enhancements put the gloss on an already highly capable machine.

But are looks so similar to before a help or a hindrance?

BMW says that you guys requested this – you wanted your quibbles, such as weighty low-speed steering, rectified, but you didn’t want any LCI facelift to stray too far from the look you already had.

It has responded by comprehensively re-engineering the X5 mechanically, but making only the most minor styling tweaks:

•    New front and rear bumpers with more body-colour bits
•    Larger air intakes
•    Repositioned fog lights
•    Redesigned rear light clusters
•    New headlights (with vivid white daytime running lights on Xenon units)

Is this enough? Is it too much? Is it what you wanted or too similar to before? What are your preferences for companies updating vehicles?

The debate amongst the press corps is that as it’s so hard to see the changes, the big improvements in some areas of the new X5 may pass unnoticed by casual car buyers seeking the latest thing. Who, after all, form a significant proportion of this market.

We’re not the ones buying it, though. You are! And so are better placed than us to judge BMW’s approach.

To help our debate, then, we’d like your input! BMW X5 LCI – too much, too little or just right… and why?

Slide and share your thoughts below for the all-important feedback…