First Drive: BMW X6 M xDrive X6 M 5dr Auto - Top Gear
3-tonne SUVs were meant to attack racetracks…. …they wouldn’t be 2. 3-tonne SUVs. If you were making a BMW M-car, would you start from an X6. No. So it’s a disaster as a fast car. The M department has thoroughly revised the X6’s twin-turbo V8 so it now makes a staggering 575bhp and 553lb ft of torque. It’s got colossal grunt low down in the rev range, spins to 7000 and never really shows lag. Even when it’s burdened down by all that tonnage, the V8 gives an amazing account of itself. Yet the X6M’s real party trick isn’t its acceleration at low speeds. All the engine needs is a more charismatic noise. It can pelt round at thoroughly improbable speeds, hardly leaning, keeping control of pitch and heave, and then catapult away thanks to that brutal engine and near-unbreakable AWD traction. The X6M boasts an active anti-roll system, clever torque-vectoring diffs, adaptive dampers, huge bespoke tyres, vast six-piston brakes and all sorts of other technologies aimed at bolstering the Newton-defying craziness of it all. But is it any fun. It’s far from no fun. It can’t be no fun given its speed and grip and capability. Source: www.topgear.com
