[hufington]

This car is BMW's Trojan Horse to distract buyers and increase prices of all other offered vehicles.

[jmxtrem]

its pretty spec...............................

[jcal65]

The one in my dealer’s showroom is $186k with ADM, I wished them luck. Hideous, but I am sure we all be proven wrong when some SAP eventually buys it and gets hosed for even more add-ons in the finance dept.

[guy_incognito1420]

Originally Posted by humisfum

I don’t get how this car got approved. A performance SUV still is oxymoronic to me, because it is so limited by its weight and size. Maybe if it looked cool- not just different- you could excuse it.

I don't like how the exterior looks at all, just too busy and incoherent for my tastes but since you live in Northern VA, I'd imagine quite a few people around here will want one.

No different than the folks who like G Wagons and the Urus. Except the XM is much cheaper than the Urus and I'd imagine a bit more comfortable than the G Wagon.

A "performance SUV" basically has to do the same thing any performance car has to do, accelerate quickly, make loud exhaust noises and be mostly comfortable on the highway which is what these cars will be doing 99.9% of the time.

[Ilikemike]

Selling my BMW stock…

[guy_incognito1420]

Originally Posted by pookiemalibu

6.) Wait til the battery dies on that sucker. Then let's talk about maintenance. I think all cars save maybe a Subaru is going to require some modicum of maintenance over it's lifetime. I don't have that issue: I lease.

Not disagreeing with you necessarily, I haven't driven one or seen one in the flesh. As others have said, perhaps the market isn't the US, maybe it's China and I'm all for exporting stuff from Spartanburg to Beijing. But for the American audience i'm not sure where the XM fits in at all.

Generally speaking I agree with you but I'd imagine the battery is under the same 8 year/100,000 mile warranty as BMW's other batteries. Besides, you can also lease the XM with the same shitty residuals as other M cars these days.

I'm going to some event next weekend where I'll finally see and drive one of these in person as well as the M3C and an i4 M50 which I'm not interested in driving since I already have one but will be interesting to see how it drives. As for the last comment, BMW has specifically stated that it expects the US to be the XM's biggest market and that it expects that many traditional BMW owners will hate the car....which has shown to be true so far.

[guy_incognito1420]

Originally Posted by Ilikemike

Selling my BMW stock…

Yeah it's up what? 20% YTD? 30% over the last year? Sounds like a smart plan.

[Ugly Kar]

This thing makes a Pontiac Aztek look like a Ferrari. It is not going forward with modern futuristic designs. If fact it's just the opposite. It's going backward to the 70's where everything was weird, didn't flow and was out of proportion. Everyone thought the new fads then were really cool, but we also know what happened to them.

And as mentioned, the M5 is a better performing, better looking vehicle for a lot less. At least BMW hasn't screwed it up yet.

[Cabby]

Ah good ol' Doug... dramatic pauses and sweaty exuberant hand motions. The best part is watching a 30 minute video of a review where he exclaims it's the best car he's ever driven, Doug score - 68 out of 100! uh ok...

[humisfum]

Originally Posted by Ugly Kar

This thing makes a Pontiac Aztek look like a Ferrari. It is not going forward with modern futuristic designs. If fact it's just the opposite. It's going backward to the 70's where everything was weird, didn't flow and was out of proportion. Everyone thought the new fads then were really cool, but we also know what happened to them.

And as mentioned, the M5 is a better performing, better looking vehicle for a lot less. At least BMW hasn't screwed it up yet.

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen.

[humisfum]

Originally Posted by Cabby

Ah good ol' Doug... dramatic pauses and sweaty exuberant hand motions. The best part is watching a 30 minute video of a review where he exclaims it's the best car he's ever driven, Doug score - 68 out of 100! uh ok...

He ranks everything on the same scale so an amazing sports car will likely have some less practicality compared to a minivan. I just base everything off the weekend scores. Unless its a car you want to daily I’d go off the combined one.

[Quadruple VANOS]

Originally Posted by DO444

These prices are low.

They’re retail prices off the builder for how I’d specify each model. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[MRCW]

No Thanks...Sticking with my 2017 GLE AMG for now. BTW my local Aston Martin Dealer has a 2021 DBX with an original MSRP of over $200K available for well south of this monstrosity's price. Im going to drive it tomorrow

[///M TOWN]

Originally Posted by JJacksonIII

This guy's a little too amped up. Turned it off after a couple of minutes. Can't watch people twitch and jerk like that when saying what should be normal sentences.

Doug clearly owns his own Espresso Machine…. ☕️

[SoCali E36]

We have our HEA in the showroom for sale. Everyone who comes in to potentially buy it leaves after seeing it in person we can’t even sell it at MSRP 🤣.

[///M TOWN]

Originally Posted by SoCali E36

We have our HEA in the showroom for sale. Everyone who comes in to potentially buy it leaves after seeing it in person we can’t even sell it at MSRP 🤣.

Wow

Maybe if they got rid of that gigantic hockey stick, it might look somewhat better

[SoCali E36]

Originally Posted by ///M TOWN

Wow

Maybe if they got rid of that gigantic hockey stick, it might look somewhat better

Maybe if they built an actually performance car and not this thing they sell.

[playswcars]

The red interior is awesome though.

[Bimmerfun82]

Originally Posted by playswcars

The red interior is awesome though.

Is there a panoramic roof behind that roof quilt? I haven’t seen anyone explain that

[playswcars]

Originally Posted by Bimmerfun82

Is there a panoramic roof behind that roof quilt? I haven’t seen anyone explain that

Nope, no pano roof available on XM.

[Bimmerfun82]

Originally Posted by playswcars

Nope, no pano roof available on XM.

What a joke

[IAmSpeed]

Originally Posted by playswcars

Nope, no pano roof available on XM.

What the hell.