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BMW X6, Part Three

Why you should buy this car:
Odd vehicles fascinate you. You're open-minded and prepared to accept that a big, tall, heavy SUV can out-drive many a sports car. You always wanted a Lamborghini LM002 but are locked into a world of lease agreements. Your heart says sports car but your head says, "You live at the end of a dirt road in mountains that are snowbound nine months out of the year." Your own personal project car hell is creating the ultimate Dakar racer.

Why you shouldn't:
You think that lightness and simplicity are the be all and end all of automotive greatness. SUVs offend you. You need an SUV for off-roading and hauling manure. You have small children. The thought of $5 a gallon gas sends you into deep depression.

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12:00 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Wes Siler
3,749 views, 26 comments

Latest by zamafir: @j6r: w00t brand whorage ftw! more »

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BMW X6, Part Two

Exterior Design: ***
Like many parts of the BMW X6, its looks are promising yet flawed. Doing a great job of disguising its bulk — the X6 is huge, that lip on the rear hatch is taller than an F-150's tailgate and the pictured wheels are 20-inchers — they're nevertheless awkward in some places — the huge rear end — and disappointingly conservative in others — the boring front. It's an extremely color sensitive shape; white showing off its surfaces best while the burgundy version is just boring.

Interior Design: **
In short: conservative and impractical. By opting for a CLS-style rear console BMW unnecessarily reduced the X6's people capacity to four, but haven't made the interior special enough to justify its lack of space. It's also very color and spec sensitive; the dash looks great covered in dark leather, but the beige plastic found in base versions is just plain tacky. The rear window, big on the outside, looks like little more than a slit from the front seat. The low roofline doesn't compromise rear headroom as much as it looks though, I'm 6'2" and could sit there all day, legroom is equivalent to an X5.

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12:30 PM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Wes Siler
8,160 views, 52 comments

Latest by brownie: @Pope Dearthair the Awesometh: There is no S6 Avant and certainly no RS6 Avant offered in the US. Nor the RS4 Avant, for that matter. Clearly Audi hates America. more »

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2009 BMW X6, Part One

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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12:01 AM on Sat Apr 5 2008
By Wes Siler
20,719 views, 134 comments

Latest by weatherman: @Wes Siler: well said. more »

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Mini Sports Activity Vehicle to be Built by Austrian Magna Steyr

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 »

9:15 AM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Ray Wert
1,292 views, 13 comments

Latest by oneswellfoop: The one thing that would make me buy a mini today is having an all wheel drive drive-train on it. I guess I can't get one today, but I want a cooper S wih AWD. Give me this more »

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Ford's SAVvy European Minivans to Debut in Geneva

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 »

7:27 AM on Wed Feb 22 2006
By Mike Spinelli
923 views, 5 comments

Latest by Mojo: Why would ye want the Galaxy anyway? And the Smacks or whatever it's called sounds like a tool for familiacide. more »

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Spy Photos: Ford European SAV Minivan

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 »

Spy Photos

7:09 AM on Sat Jul 23 2005
By Mike Spinelli
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