BMW X6 Car Review _ Top Gear

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe X6 is BMW's attempt to make a car which looks and goes like a coupe but has a tall driving position and a bit of off-road ability they call it a sports activity vehicle it's available with a choice of two petrol engines both of which will attract the new 950 showroom tax and two diesels which won't in the cabin there is space for four but those in the back will be awfully cramped due to the sloping roof line inside it's all typical BMW except for this um rather clever split opening glove box lid it works well here but what if you're the wrong way up to find out I to Sydney which is in Australia obviously everything here is upside down and yet it's still works beautifully and that is impressive so how does the X6 Drive in many ways it's quite annoying uh you can't see out of the back very well and it's got the iDrive system which can only be operated if you are 14 uh no n no gibberish I don't know what any of that means satellite navigation okay you're coming up to a complicated Junction trying to see which way it is and you think well it's a bit chilly I'll just ease the temperature up and the screen's gone now I don't know which way to go because it's why are you telling me that then there's the gear lever it's on back to front cuz if you want to change down you push it away and if you want to change up you pull it towards you and then 's no point resorting to the paddles on the steering wheel because unlike in a normal car where one changes down and one changes up in this they both do the same thing and what was the boss of BMW doing when all the clowns in the laptop Department were coming up with this rubbish I can only assume she was in a motel with a Swiss spy now that would be Preposterous still for a big tall car it's not bad in the bed unfortunately to make it not bad they have had to put quite a lot of beef and granite in the suspension in Britain that makes it really quite uncomfortable but what about countries where the roads are smooth to find out I went to Spain nope it's uncomfortable here as well the fact is this it would be more comfortable if it weren't so tall there's a similar problem with the performance yes the twin turbo 3 l diesel that I've got in this particular model will get me from not to 60 in 7 seconds and that's not bad but how much faster and how much more economical would it have been if the body wasn't so enormous you'd imagine though that the advantages of that big high riding body would become clear in the countryside but there's no low range gearbox there's no ride height control and there's no locking differentials it doesn't take long for those emissions to have an effect now you see that that really says a lot doesn't it there the only way around this is to get out and complete your journey on foot that's the handbrake on and in park help I'm still going back up the hill maybe though it can handle snow a bit better to find out I went to the highest ski resort in the Ales no it can't so it's too focused on being a road car to be any good off-road and it's too focused on being tall and heavy to be any good on the road either and that I'm afraid is far from the end of the story you see the X6 was conceived at a time when we all thought the banks knew what they were doing but it went on sale moments after we discovered they didn't and I'm sorry but in a recession a car like this just looks ridiculous to explain what I'm on about I went in search of a met for and inevitably that led me to Hong Kong see that Skyscraper the one Batman jumped off it's not particularly beautiful it's not particularly useful it was built by a world for a world that doesn't really exist anymore remind you of anything to sum up then the Range Rover is a much better allrounder which is why we use them as camera tracking cars the X6 is too cramped too complicated and with prices starting at £42,000 too expensive as well then you're going to need at least £1,500 a year to run it not including depreciation and I think I'd rather spend that sort of money on a Caribbean holiday to find out I went to Barbados I think a bit more research no this is definitely better definitelythe X6 is BMW's attempt to make a car which looks and goes like a coupe but has a tall driving position and a bit of off-road ability they call it a sports activity vehicle it's available with a choice of two petrol engines both of which will attract the new 950 showroom tax and two diesels which won't in the cabin there is space for four but those in the back will be awfully cramped due to the sloping roof line inside it's all typical BMW except for this um rather clever split opening glove box lid it works well here but what if you're the wrong way up to find out I to Sydney which is in Australia obviously everything here is upside down and yet it's still works beautifully and that is impressive so how does the X6 Drive in many ways it's quite annoying uh you can't see out of the back very well and it's got the iDrive system which can only be operated if you are 14 uh no n no gibberish I don't know what any of that means satellite navigation okay you're coming up to a complicated Junction trying to see which way it is and you think well it's a bit chilly I'll just ease the temperature up and the screen's gone now I don't know which way to go because it's why are you telling me that then there's the gear lever it's on back to front cuz if you want to change down you push it away and if you want to change up you pull it towards you and then 's no point resorting to the paddles on the steering wheel because unlike in a normal car where one changes down and one changes up in this they both do the same thing and what was the boss of BMW doing when all the clowns in the laptop Department were coming up with this rubbish I can only assume she was in a motel with a Swiss spy now that would be Preposterous still for a big tall car it's not bad in the bed unfortunately to make it not bad they have had to put quite a lot of beef and granite in the suspension in Britain that makes it really quite uncomfortable but what about countries where the roads are smooth to find out I went to Spain nope it's uncomfortable here as well the fact is this it would be more comfortable if it weren't so tall there's a similar problem with the performance yes the twin turbo 3 l diesel that I've got in this particular model will get me from not to 60 in 7 seconds and that's not bad but how much faster and how much more economical would it have been if the body wasn't so enormous you'd imagine though that the advantages of that big high riding body would become clear in the countryside but there's no low range gearbox there's no ride height control and there's no locking differentials it doesn't take long for those emissions to have an effect now you see that that really says a lot doesn't it there the only way around this is to get out and complete your journey on foot that's the handbrake on and in park help I'm still going back up the hill maybe though it can handle snow a bit better to find out I went to the highest ski resort in the Ales no it can't so it's too focused on being a road car to be any good off-road and it's too focused on being tall and heavy to be any good on the road either and that I'm afraid is far from the end of the story you see the X6 was conceived at a time when we all thought the banks knew what they were doing but it went on sale moments after we discovered they didn't and I'm sorry but in a recession a car like this just looks ridiculous to explain what I'm on about I went in search of a met for and inevitably that led me to Hong Kong see that Skyscraper the one Batman jumped off it's not particularly beautiful it's not particularly useful it was built by a world for a world that doesn't really exist anymore remind you of anything to sum up then the Range Rover is a much better allrounder which is why we use them as camera tracking cars the X6 is too cramped too complicated and with prices starting at £42,000 too expensive as well then you're going to need at least £1,500 a year to run it not including depreciation and I think I'd rather spend that sort of money on a Caribbean holiday to find out I went to Barbados I think a bit more research no this is definitely better definitely\n"