Monday 1st March 2010

Lumma Gives BMW X6M 641bhp

A lot of power but dubious style for tweaked X6M

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If you feel that the 'cooking' BMW X6M is already bordering on the sacrilegious, then this, the Lumma Design CLR X 650 M is quite likely to make you throw your cup of coffee at the computer screen.

Read the PH Team's views on the X6 M here

But behind the oh-my-goodness 23-inch alloys (yes, really), suspension that's been lowered by 40mm and the bodykit that taste forgot there is at least an interesting amount of power.

The CLR X 650 M uses the same twin-turbo V8 as the factory-standard car, but with a tricky exhaust system and, crucially a fiddled-with ECU. This brings power up from 547bhp to 641bhp, and torque to 612lb ft.

Oh, and Lumma has removed the speed limiter to bring the top end up to 184mph. no doubt useful when you're desperately trying to outrun the taste police...

[Remagel2507]

I dont think it looks that bad compared to the AC Shintzer Falcon thing I saw the other day - then again I have a Cayenne so what the F*** do I know

[PascalBuyens]

Headlights style E46....

[the Fantom]

Something about that works. Lowered and with the huge wheels it looks better proportioned than the unmodified version. But put it next to a normal car, even a large normal car, and it would look huge and bloated like it really is.

[Escort Si-130]

Suprisingly it seems to hide some of the X6's ugliness, I kinda like this. In the pics it looks like some ordinary hatch, apart from the second to last one. Although when seeing it on the streets its a different matter altogether.

[ewenm]

Escort Si-130 said:

Suprisingly it seems to hide some of the X6's ugliness, I kinda like this. In the pics it looks like some ordinary hatch, apart from the second to last one. Although when seeing it on the streets its a different matter altogether.

Nothing to give scale in the pics...

[soad]

A fairly nice creation. At least it looks half decent. I'd have one.

[cheadle hulme]

I quite like it on the internet. It'd just look stupid in real life.

[stinkysteve]

As much as i hate this car, having that much power is respectable.

[vintageracer01]

Dooshbag said:

As desireable as the plague... I score it zero.

Then we are already two! A zero from me!

[James Junior 14]

I don't think I have ever seen a car that shouts 'ahole' quite so loudly.

[RichardD]

stinkysteve said:

As much as i hate this car, having that much power is respectable.

I think it also means that future M5/M6 models will be easily tunable to these levels!

[Bladedancer]

1st place in the contest for most pointless car.

[CraigGTI6]

Get back to the loser lane, I'm coming through!

Strangely, I quite like that...

[havoc]

Those are 23" rims?!? They look like 17"s...shows how big that thing really is...

[Mr Gearchange]

I actually think this looks much better resolved than the standard 'car' - especially in side profile.

It's still unnecessarily ugly but now it looks less like a cat that's been started while crimping one off.

[matthew watkins]

It looks like a 'slight' improvement over the standard model, I passed a white X6 the other day, fully blinged up. It looked grotesque and justs shouts hey! look at me I'm a t**t. Give me an Overfinch Vogue any day.

[CraigGTI6]

havoc said:

Those are 23" rims?!? They look like 17"s...shows how big that thing really is...

And imagine smashing into one of the several thousand cavernous potholes that are around at the moment!

[Kazlet]

Spectacularly ugly, are they just trying to compete with porsche for the ugliest car in the world crown?

[Dibby]

Crass

[paddymarsden]

Theres just no need lol

I cant believe it has 23" rims!