WTF is that trunk lid? Not good.

Wow. A Murano on steroids.

Wow, the BMW Aztek!

It's, um, ah, um.

Hm.

it looks like it'll be a very aggressively raked hatchback to me if anything that is plastic is deleted. weird.

Great, another big expensive gas hog that I can't see around! Thanks Germania!

woah.

hold the phones.

um. is that guy at the pump wearing CAPRI pants!?

This thing will have sweet rear visability. (Borat Voice) NOOOTTTTTTTTT!

Crossovers are just so ambiguous in nature that they do nothing to move the soul. Good thing BMW is diluting their brand with more of this crap.

I'd have been really pissed if this came out and the 1-Series did not.

@Drive-thru: They might be clamdiggers or pedal pushers, but I don't think they are Capris. Capris have a ventedd slit at the side, no?

Don't these field engineers lose their bonus when a spy photographer gets so up close and personal that the dashboard temperature gauge is visible?

I'm waiting for the day when irate field testers beat the snot out of these pesky spy photographers. But until then, keep the spy shots coming.

@Drive-thru: Maybe, like the X6, he's camouflaged his real pants. Otherwise, he's done a criminal thing.

man, that one looks a lot like a volvo. now I know why thy were interested in bying Volvo from Ford

@Drive-thru: He totally is. I can't believe I didn't notice that. Let's check it in higher-res [LINK] -- yup. Capri pants.

@goatrope:
I think that's happened already, another BMW, even.

The FX 45 sets the styling bar pretty high for me, I don't see BMW's current team outdoing it.

And considering the turgid 6-series, I doubt this will be a handeling champ either.

His silly capris were the first thing I noticed in that picture. Well, other than the fugly BMW that wants to be a Cadillac.

gooooooooooo bmw!

...sigh

@Ray Wert: MAN-pris.

@Ray Wert: We call them Shants. Or Spants.

But they're for riding bikes, not driving ugly gas hogs that shouldn't exist in the first place.

That roofline brings to mind a certain ute characteristic. Dare I say, BMWamino?

Ugly BMW and a guy wearing capris. 'Nuff said.

Why do we get this and not wagons loaded with Bruce?

fail.

mmm hmm... There's nothing left to be said here.

um, maybe it's the wagon CS... or the whole thing was faked, just to throw off Benz.
The strange part is that I kind of like the front treatment. It's better than the 1 series, at least.

Somewhere an engineer for the AMC Eagle is crackin a cold one and having a good laugh.. because there is no way any self respecting suburbanite (yuppie/soccermom/executive) would ever drive a jacked up 4x4 car..

but... behold.. the X6..

suddenly.. redneck is in.. Next thing you know the germans will be drinkin old milwaukee, breeding hounds, and developing their own precise gun racks for them..

With all that cladding on, it looks like a Mercury Grand Marquis with the De Sade option.

@scotte:

You win the internet!

@WheatKing:

Sigh...and what a good day that will be to.

it's a trap!

Okay.

This has so much plastic, and yet, so many "I'm a BMW" styling cues, I'm inclined to ask:

What makes everyone so sure it's a BMW?

The sides are very fake and show a completely misleading swage line (look at the fuel filler). The interior seems to have cloth seats, and some hardware that looks like VW stuff. The front fenders don't look right.

Getting a BMW sag wagon is peanuts for a company trying to keep a new design under wraps.

Capris + ugly BMW CUV? That guy's ranking pretty damn high on the Jeremy Clarkson Cock-o-meter.

I'm really not sure what the perceived demographic for something like this is. People who might otherwise buy a Cayenne?

@legerdemain - while the rear seats may look vw, the gauge cluster is certainly NOT vw, the thick rimming in satin finish, bold font, and sky blue LCD aren't congruent with a single vw made today, or the last decade, this is most certainly not a VAG product unless VAG has elected to ditch the MFD they've been using for decades, and dumb down the gauge cluster - which is about as likely as me buying a veyron tomorrow.

Ha, Its is me or the picture with the two guys standing and the third one hooking up someting that looks a chain or rope to the new X6 to towed, look closely to the picture......LOL

Having seen the prototype in a focus group (it's been a while, but the shape looks the same although the proportions have grown), i can tell you one of the features they demonstrated was the two piece hatch. You're supposed to be able to open it in one piece (as seen in the spy shots) OR you can flip down the lower half (below the hatch glass) like truck tailgate to be able to access the cargo area. And yes, that back seat is ridiculous, I'm just under 5'6" and I hit my head getting in back there.

@Mad_Science: Ever thought of buying an Audi instead? Keep your fingers crossed for an S4/RS4 Avant.

@cerulean_moon: You've got to be kidding! You could probably even fit in the back of a DSM at 5'6"

Well, at least it's not ugly. And considering BMW design of late, that's a rather big achievement. That rear incline is so steep, though, it looks like the CUV market is evolving ever closer to station-wagon-on-stilts looks and functionality.

@Aaron, indeed, it would appear everyone's gravitating towards Audi's long in the tooth allroad idea, interesting - yet so pointless for european car makers who already have such mature lines of wagons. What's the point?

Looks like BMW's attempt at a Dodge Magnum crossed with a Chevy HHR and PT Cruiser....or something like that.

On the plus side, there's a lot of cargo room in which to haul Bangle and his team into the desert...

...and leave them hog-tied to cacti in the 128 degree heat of the afternoon sun.

I finally realized something! I knew I'd seen the dash before. I figured the photo was taken of the photog's dashboard, just to illustrate the temperature. It's an '07 Jeep Wrangler dash, so yeah, the gauge cluster isn't VW, but it's also not from the "X6" in the rest of the photos.