RE: BMW X4 M40i: Review
Discussion
Clivey said:
I can sort of see the point if you live in a remote area / on a farm / down a track etc. and could do with a little extra ground clearance. - Audi's "Allroad", rather than "off road" description works well for these sort of cars - but did they have to make it look so disgusting? BMW haven't designed a nice-looking SUV since the original X5 IMO.
Wasn't that one designed by poached Land Rover staff?
Great car that.
As much as I'd love a BMW M2 it simply wouldn't work in my family. I was only looking on Autotrader for a 3.0 X3 earlier!
The guys who have contempt for this kind of vehicle make me laugh! Get with it Victor Meldrews, nobody wants to drive around in a Passat estate anymore.
As much as I'd love a BMW M2 it simply wouldn't work in my family. I was only looking on Autotrader for a 3.0 X3 earlier!
The guys who have contempt for this kind of vehicle make me laugh! Get with it Victor Meldrews, nobody wants to drive around in a Passat estate anymore.
philmots said:
I'm most probably on my own here, but I even think it looks quite good!
I really quite like it, well out of budget but I'd of certainly looked at one as a used buy if they ever brought it here.
You're not your own I sat in a nicely specced X4 last year and I really liked it. I really quite like it, well out of budget but I'd of certainly looked at one as a used buy if they ever brought it here.
Manages to pull of the same trick as the X6 and those awful GLE things; It looks both offensively ugly and bland enough to send me to sleep, all at the same time.
I don't care how good it is, I really couldn't bring myself to part with my own hard earned money to drive something so gopping. Especially when there are cars from the same manufacturers that are just as good but without the odd proportions.
I don't care how good it is, I really couldn't bring myself to part with my own hard earned money to drive something so gopping. Especially when there are cars from the same manufacturers that are just as good but without the odd proportions.
Timfy said:
I don't care how good it is, I really couldn't bring myself to part with my own hard earned money to drive something so gopping. Especially when there are cars from the same manufacturers that are just as good but without the odd proportions.
I appreciate that there's the choice out there for people, but to me this type of car has all of the disadvantages of an SUV without many of the advantages (for example cavernous boot space, 7 seats)...037 said:
Great car that.
As much as I'd love a BMW M2 it simply wouldn't work in my family. I was only looking on Autotrader for a 3.0 X3 earlier!
The guys who have contempt for this kind of vehicle make me laugh! Get with it Victor Meldrews, nobody wants to drive around in a Passat estate anymore.
It's not just Victor Meldrews / old duffers. I'm 27 and can't see the point in it (any X4). They don't look, handle or go as well as a normal car (e.g. BMW's own 3-Series), they aren't tough enough for off-road (and have road tyres so are useless anyway), they're not that big inside and don't do the normal SUV things well...the only thing they seem to be good at is being brash trinkets for Kerry Katona wannabes.As much as I'd love a BMW M2 it simply wouldn't work in my family. I was only looking on Autotrader for a 3.0 X3 earlier!
The guys who have contempt for this kind of vehicle make me laugh! Get with it Victor Meldrews, nobody wants to drive around in a Passat estate anymore.
The Audi A4 Allroad-type cars are a much better concept if you need an estate with AWD and a bit of ground clearance. - If BMW gave a 3-Series the same treatment, it'd actually be useful...and look way better!
Clivey said:
The Audi A4 Allroad-type cars are a much better concept if you need an estate with AWD and a bit of ground clearance. - If BMW gave a 3-Series the same treatment, it'd actually be useful...and look way better!
But they don't, so that leaves the X3 and X4.They are going after Macan petrol market, but not in the UK where BMW seem happy to loose owners to Porsche given the X3/X4 lineup is dismal fuel only. I've talked to a number of BMW dealers recently that have admitted they have lost BMW custom to Porsche because the X3/X4 lineup is diesel only in the UK.
Interesting the engine in this X4 M40i is essentially the same modified N55 as is in the new M2 hence (just software tweeked for less top end power)
I prefer the X3 to the X4, really don't see the point of the 4 or 6 over the 3/5, but hey, lots do.....and if this was being sold in the UK, I would seriously consider it over a Macan. Instead I might have to wait for the new gen G01 X3M when that comes out in a few years time....if I haven't bought a Macan instead by then.
Kill it with fire. Crush it by dropping a concrete-filled skip on it from a crane from 100ft. Blow it up. Rake it with machine-gun fire. Chuck it into a giant shredder. Crash it into its own production line Make sure that everyone who sanctioned its development, design and production is forced to watch its gratuitous destruction. Then, tell them to stop coming up with this crap, go and drive some older BMWs (up to about 2009) and rediscover what made them enjoyable to drive and so good-looking too.
This thing may share a badge and grille with my E39s - but it's not a BMW in the sense that any enthusiast of the brand could recognise.
Meanwhile, Porsche and Jaguar are both offering some seriously good-looking rivals to this. BMW deserve to get hammered sales-wise over this abortion.
This thing may share a badge and grille with my E39s - but it's not a BMW in the sense that any enthusiast of the brand could recognise.
Meanwhile, Porsche and Jaguar are both offering some seriously good-looking rivals to this. BMW deserve to get hammered sales-wise over this abortion.
This and the new X6 seem to have been given a much to heavy handed "thin and not as offensive" design, to pacify the people who complained constantly about the old X6, in doing so they both look pretty good at the front but rear quarters and back end look a bit too focus grouped, and even after seeing them on the road I still can't tell them apart, think the 6 has gills on the wing?
RoverP6B said:
Kill it with fire. Crush it by dropping a concrete-filled skip on it from a crane from 100ft. Blow it up. Rake it with machine-gun fire. Chuck it into a giant shredder. Crash it into its own production line Make sure that everyone who sanctioned its development, design and production is forced to watch its gratuitous destruction. Then, tell them to stop coming up with this crap, go and drive some older BMWs (up to about 2009) and rediscover what made them enjoyable to drive and so good-looking too.
This thing may share a badge and grille with my E39s - but it's not a BMW in the sense that any enthusiast of the brand could recognise.
Meanwhile, Porsche and Jaguar are both offering some seriously good-looking rivals to this. BMW deserve to get hammered sales-wise over this abortion.
I had an E39 once. Didn't like it. It constantly irked me that the makers could not be arsed to move the windscreen wipers the other way round for RHD. This thing may share a badge and grille with my E39s - but it's not a BMW in the sense that any enthusiast of the brand could recognise.
Meanwhile, Porsche and Jaguar are both offering some seriously good-looking rivals to this. BMW deserve to get hammered sales-wise over this abortion.
Cheapskates.
Newer BMW's are properly set up for RHD. They are therefore superior.
Having had right-handed wipers in my E46, I far prefer the cantilevered LHD wipers in the E39. They spend less time in my field of vision and clear all but a tiny corner in the top-right which is well outside my field of vision. Vastly better than normal non-cantilevered RHD wipers.
Even if the wipers were crap, which they aren't, it's still a brilliant thing to drive, the majority seem mechanically bombproof (although my 520i has been no end of trouble), and they look lovely. I saw a dark blue 03-reg 530i saloon yesterday and was struck by how well it has aged and what a pretty, beautifully-proportioned shape it is, devoid of over-fussy detail. The F10, on the other hand, already looks very old and dated, because the designers didn't know when to stop drawing. It's a confused mess of too many shapes, surfaces, lines and slashes - and it looks more like the E39 than it does this X4 abortion!
Even if the wipers were crap, which they aren't, it's still a brilliant thing to drive, the majority seem mechanically bombproof (although my 520i has been no end of trouble), and they look lovely. I saw a dark blue 03-reg 530i saloon yesterday and was struck by how well it has aged and what a pretty, beautifully-proportioned shape it is, devoid of over-fussy detail. The F10, on the other hand, already looks very old and dated, because the designers didn't know when to stop drawing. It's a confused mess of too many shapes, surfaces, lines and slashes - and it looks more like the E39 than it does this X4 abortion!
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