The steering speed can be adjusted with the M-mode settings, but even in the basic ‘Comfort’ mode, there is none of the slight deadness on centre you get with the non-M X6. It’s a surprising easy car to drive around town â€" it works just as well on the race track as well, as Alborz found out at the car’s international launch in Texas earlier this year.
Dial all the Ms up to their full M-ness â€" for steering, power, gearbox and suspension adjustments â€" and the X6M becomes entirely unnecessary in a built-up area. So twitchy is the throttle, we found ourselves regularly tripping the ‘pre-safe’ seatbelt tensioners as the blue meanie rushed up behind slower traffic like the Millennium Falcon entering light speed.
There is so much power here, if you ran it on a treadmill generation, I’m sure you could power a small town for a year.
The 2015 BMW X6M is an impressive car, but its also a bit of a stupid car. You could save $80,000 and go for the X6 xDrive 30D and enjoy 80 per cent of what you do in the X6M.
That said, at $194,700 it is just about $100,000 CHEAPER than the BMW M6. Same power, same engine, same number of M badges, but with more space and more practicality. Does that then make the X6M a solid value proposition?
If you want the X6M then you will love it. It does everything it is supposed to do, and does it well. If you never got the X6 concept, then this enormous sports coupe will continue to make no sense whatsoever.
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