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With the 2000 X5, BMW has hurled itself into the ever-growing sport-utility vehicle segment. Yet how does one prove that the folks at Bayerische Motoren Werke didn’t just slap its button logo onto someone else’s truck, dangle a $50,000 price tag in the window and assume that would be enough to carve out a healthy slice of the market? First Drive takes it for a spin along Pacific Coast Highway.