sorry about that... my original rant about National trying to pass off the BMW X3 as being in the same class as the big Caddy Escalade... one is torture for 5 6-foot-plus big guys like us... the other one is the proper SUV for big guys.

(on a side note, if I had to guess, the 5 of us have a combined weight of a little over 1500 pounds... add 4 full size suitcases, 3 carry-ons... video editing equipment that weigh over 200 pounds,.... probably 2000 pounds total... definitely well over the carrying capacity of the X3)