Better way to cleanly handle nested XML with LINQ

Better way to cleanly handle nested XML with LINQ
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I’m working with XML that was designed by somebody who got paid by the level of nesting. The different xml files always looks something like this:

<Car>
   <Color>
       <Paint>
          <AnotherUselessTag>
               <SomeSemanticBs>
                   <TheImportantData>

With LINQ its easy to get what I want: ( not exactly, but you get the point )

from x in car.Descendants("x")
from y in x.Descendants("y")
from z in y.Descendants("z")
select z.WhatIWant();

I’m asking if there is a better way to do this? Some way of navigating the DOM with Linq?