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Despite the enormous size and weight, the BMW X6 M is just as fast around the Nurburgring as the last BMW M3. But why did BMW's M division build the world's sportiest crossover? More »
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Exterior Design: ***
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The 2009 BMW X6 isn't great on a racetrack. This thought occurs during my third lap when I realize — the throttle wide open, exiting a corner at 100mph — this may not be the best sports car out there. My next thought is "But this is a 4,993lbs SUV." And that's the point where you realize what we have here is something entirely new.
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BMW's just revealed that they've contracted the building of what's alternately been called the MINI Monte or MINI Sports Activity Vehicle (SAV) to the Austrian auto manufacturing company Magna Steyr. If you think Magna Steyr and BMW sound like familiar cohorts, it's because they are. Magna was in charge of production of the BMW X3. So now we get to see if they're able to build something a wee bit smaller. Full press release after the jump. But, if you want to see the latest purported spy photos — the Road that is ever-Winding has some here. More »
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With room for seven and a turbocharged, 217 hp five banger right out of the European Focus ST, Ford's S-MAX minivan (pictured) courts Europe's lead-footed footballer-moms, while its larger Galaxy sibling (after the jump) targets their violin-recital-enduring half-sisters. Both small minivans (MPVs?) will show up in Geneva, where a year earlier, Ford unveiled the SAV concept to which the S-MAX owes its life. The Galaxy replaces a previous model jointly developed with Volkswagen (see also: Sharan). Americans won't likely see anything like these before the end of the century. More »
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When Ford showed off a prototype of its progressive SAV minivan earlier this year in Geneva, it made the Freestar look like an apple cart by comparison. Finally, we thought, someone was considering the minivan as a style player, not just an egg-shaped people-mover by default. Two months later, Ford announced it would build the SAV (for the European market), and less than a month later, a test mule was spotted ahead of its Frankfurt unveiling in September. The new, seven-seater will be known in Europe as the E-Max, and in the US as "What the heck is that thing?" More »
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