RE: BMW X6 M: Driven

[M3DGE]

cerb4.5lee said:

Pickled said:

cerb4.5lee said:

I really liked the old model and I like this one too it is a totally pointless car but I think that is strangely why I love it so much.

And its a big 2 fingered salute to ecomentalists

The only single thing it has going for it. 93 grand?? To quote the old anti-Cayenne spoof add, 'because a Range Rover just isn't expensive enough'.

[Amirhussain]

M3DGE said:

cerb4.5lee said:

Pickled said:

cerb4.5lee said:

I really liked the old model and I like this one too it is a totally pointless car but I think that is strangely why I love it so much.

And its a big 2 fingered salute to ecomentalists

The only single thing it has going for it. 93 grand?? To quote the old anti-Cayenne spoof add, 'because a Range Rover just isn't expensive enough'.

Sure BMW dealers would give you a nice discount...

[HighwayStar]

macdeb said:

As an engineering exercise FAB no denying that, but the car has to be THE most Vulgar, unappealing, ugly piece of crap out there and everytime I see one I think, why?. To show that you have more money than sense? X6 no, and at £90k+

I have no desire, genuine need or the necessary wedge to own an X6M but... Seeing how their very existence provokes such anger and winds up so many PHers, if I had the necessary, I would have to buy one. Purely for my own amusement... people thinking they knew me, the sort of person I am simply because of what I drove. Well, that's obviously how you get to know the real person lol
If I'd bought a more expensive 911, Ferrrari, Lambo I would be a discerning, lucky bd petrol head who knew his cars. In reality I could still be a poseur with more money than sense.

[macdeb]

^^^^ Yes, you said once already.
Though having read it again I still don't understand the message. Is there one?

[Escort Si-130]

Bullst, surely that is not entirely true.

Kawasicki said:

These vehicles are needed so BMW can get the money to build cars that are more fun to drive, a 125i for example.

[PGNCerbera]

Darsettian said:

If by 'cool' you mean fashionable, yeah, it probably is. If you mean it possesses effortless style then I beg to differ. And there's no madness to be found here – it'll appeal to conservative folk who want to go one better in the ubiquitous SUV market. This is no ground-breaking car; rather, it's safe – both conceptually, and as a transportation device.

Safe is a Passat. Safe is a C-Max. This is not 'safe'. Far from it given the responses to this thread.

And making a SUV look like a coupe and go quicker than a new 911 is madness. Good madness. And I applaud it.

[Fire99]

Here is a car that needs every statistic divided by two, then it would be a far better car (rather than a mobile block of jelly-mould flats!)

[anonymous-user]

PGNCerbera said:

Safe is a Passat. Safe is a C-Max. This is not 'safe'. Far from it given the responses to this thread.

And making a SUV look like a coupe and go quicker than a new 911 is madness. Good madness. And I applaud it.

Quicker in a straight line...

Push it through corners and it must be a tossup between whether you have to stop for petrol or tyres more frequently.

[Kawasicki]

Predates the first X6.....

[Darsettian]

PGNCerbera said:

Safe is a Passat. Safe is a C-Max. This is not 'safe'. Far from it given the responses to this thread.

And making a SUV look like a coupe and go quicker than a new 911 is madness. Good madness. And I applaud it.

You think high performance in an over stylised SUV package is mad; I think it's entirely rational and predictable (read safe) given the design paradigm (read fashion trend) of the last 15 years or so. Vive le difference.

Edited by Darsettian on Wednesday 4th February 00:46

[shipoftheseus]

Presumably they build these for the "one percent". Well, if the profit allows them to build M2s for the rest of us, so be it. Rather proves that wealth has no direct connection to class or taste. Glad I don't live in Wilmslow.

[Darsettian]

Kawasicki said:

Predates the first X6.....

Nevermind the X6; this looks like it predates history. Should be in the Natural History Museum.