Safety
Standard safety features include antilock brakes, side curtain airbags, active head restraints for the front seats and an electronic stability system.
For a full list of safety features, visit the Standard Equipment & Specs page. To see how well child-safety seats fit in the X3, check out MotherProof.com's Car Seat Check.
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Exterior & Styling
The 2011 5 Series is further proof that BMW is pulling itself out of an
awkward design era. Recently, the only element that had seemed to tie one model
to another was an ill-conceived — and poorly ...
The concept
The vehicle alarm system responds to:
Opening of a door, the hood or the trunk lid.
Movements in the vehicle: interior motion
sensor.
Changes in the vehicle tilt, e.g., during attempts
t ...
Functional readiness of the airbag
system
When the ignition is switch on, the warning
lamp in the instrument cluster lights
up briefly and thereby indicates the operational
readiness of the entire airbag system
and the belt tensione ...