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BMW has unveiled the production model of their neither-fish-nor-fowl X6 "sports activity coupe" (SAC) at the North American International Auto Show. The high-rider all-wheel-drive hatchback features less passenger space and less cargo room than a normal SUV, at a much higher price. Bimmer's planning a hybrid version, along with diesel variants. Meanwhile, BMW is still touting their SAC as a "first," but the model joins an illustrious group of jacked-up AWD passenger cars like the AMC Eagle, the Eagle SX4 and the Subaru Outback sedan. And we all know how successful those were, don't we?
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The E39 5-series and E36 3-series were the high water mark for BMW IMHO (I’ll even add the E46 3-series, but they were starting to get kind of porky.) If BMW continues down this road, I have my doubts I will ever own a new one again. Pushing the whole X-series line off a cliff would make me very happy!
Although this car is an abomination, I’ve always wondered why nobody has tried to make a good looking coupe or sedan that is also capable off road. I don’t see why off-road capability has to be restricted to a two-box wagonlike bodystyle.
Well, there’s always the Schlesser buggy…
http://www.schlesser-aventures.org/
or the Mitsubishi Pajero Evolution MPR13…
http://www.valeo-motor-sports.com/the_car_description.html
Wanna do 220km/h OFF ROAD (and I don’t mean gravel roads, I mean sand trails, gatch roads and worse)?
Mmmmmm. Tasty.
~R
I think that, by the end of this thread, we’ll see that the fervor with which BMW fans defend/ dismiss the recent styling direction from Munich via Ravenna, OH will be second only to that in the Subaru thread.
I’d take a Schlesser buggy over any of them…especially a more recent diesel one.
They had a Subaru Outback SEDAN? I had no idea, I thought that was just a Legacy. The jacked up sedans look odd to me, we already have tons of them here in south Georgia. Take a late 80’s or early 90’s Caprice or Regal, put 22-24″ rims on it and jack up the suspension 8″ to fit those rims into the stock wheel wells and you have a car with a sill height 14-18″ off the ground. They are usually painted in a “stylish” green, yellow, purple or but usually and orange color. They look like horses to me, and these new CUV’s look the same minus the killer paint.