BMW X6 M: A powerful sports car that fails to deliver - MarketWatch
The 2015 BMW X6 M costs $109,995, as tested, and is yet remarkably useless. Your head starts to spin the moment you open the driver’s door: Whoa, the cabin is tiny. This four-door, five-seat super crossover (mechanical twin of the X5 M) shares a rough length and wheelbase with other BMWs built on the compact, all-wheel-drive architecture (193. 8 inches and 115. 5 inches). It is also 5. 6 inches taller, 6. 3 inches wider and nearly 1,200 pounds heavier (5,185 pounds) than, say, a BMW 335i xDrive Gran Turismo, so you figure they might have carved out some interior inches somewhere. As compared with the Gran Turismo, front headroom is down 1. 4 inches and front legroom down 1. 7 inches. Rear legroom is down 3. 62 inches and rear headroom similarly constrained. Like that fastback roofline. In terms of living space, this car is like the genie’s bottle in reverse. Many who take a hard look at the X6 “sport activity coupe,” as BMW calls it, cannot figure out what is and moreover why it has sold about a quarter-million units world-wide since 2008 and nearing 50,000 in the States. But I propose this phenomenon is not unknown in automotive history, when it’s the intimacy of the cabin, the close-coupled personal space, the shared privacy, the upholstered exclusivity that’s the main attraction. Source: www.marketwatch.com
