[Diver]

OP, thank you for sharing. Sorry about the Atlanta airport, but it happens to be the worst one in the US for delays. As for Chicago, you have my sympathy. I go up there regularly and it has one brutal winter.

I think it is a masterful marketing idea to provide customers with this sort of experience. A 5 week delivery time is amazing. These are the kinds of things it is going to take to take a chunk of RX 350 sales away from Lexus. The RX 350 is very well equipped for the price, but it drives like a marshmallow.

I am often amazed by the fact that my 3400 pound 135i has the same N55 engine that is the base power plant in the two and a half ton X5. The diesel has tremendous low end thump which I noticed when driving a 335d loaner.