Sometimes writing a long-term report can be on the tricky side ? and this is one of them.

See, all that happens these days with our BMW X5 3.0 sd is that it seamlessly goes about its business of providing ultimate top-end driving pleasure kilometre after kilometre.

No problems, no drawbacks, just pure motoring perfection.

Walk up to it in the morning, key in handbag and it knows you?re coming and unlocks automatically. Load the schoolbags in the boot, get the kids strapped in and finger the start button.

It quietly comes to life, a bit of a rattle, but most noticeably a typical BMW six growl.

Select R, check the surroundings as the monitor demands and just watch the screen to reverse.

Next thing you are on the road, amid the hustle and bustle of the daily grind and you hardly even notice you?re driving between controlling the kids and listening to the fool on the morning drive show.

Drop the kids, get back in the traffic and before you know it, you?re touching the door handle to lock it and rushing into the office.

Then it?s time to rush out to get the kids from tennis to soccer to violin to drama to the Kentucky because it?s too late for cooking dinner and then home to fight through the homework and finally bed?

So who notices when you?re driving perfection anyway ? all you need to worry about is everything else. It only needs fuel every two weeks and a service once a year, so even that?s cool.

Then you wake up and it?s Saturday and the routine is broken and hubby takes over the wheel.

You hate the way he insists on picking up young hooligans in their GTIs and rushing along with them to the next traffic light and the fact that he thinks the X5 is a racecar.

But he?s quite cool on the open road as the X5sd simply eats up the miles and seems to never even want to be refuelled out there?

It?s so comfortable ? does everything else right too, your big friendly family Beemer. Little wonder they are becoming so popular in the school parking lot ? and that it?s so difficult to find something to write about an almost invisibly perfect car?