Bone, the HSE is awesome! Charlo used to own one and he took me for a ride once, very nice! But it ain't cheap, if I were you I would get a nice used 2003-2004 model with a few miles on it. That way you can pick it up for almost nothing... It' fucking near impossible to tell the difference between a 2003 and a 2005. Same as BMW they don't change styles often because there is nothing worse than buying a car then the next year they change the style completely. No one wants to drive an outdated vehicle or older class just after they pick one up.
The X5 is actually for my fiance, I barely ever have a chance to drive it but when I do it's loads of fun. Got a ton of balls and it's fun to drive
I personally am starting to gear up for a vehicle to relace my Audi S4, and on my shortlist of vehicles I am looking at a BMW M5, Mercedes E55 AMG, Audi S4 Convertible or Infiniti FX45. I am going to go start test driving vehicles maybe next month or so...
DH