BMW XM (2024) - Luxury Performance Super-SUV!

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BMW XM review

“BMW’s Icarus moment. The XM tries to be a luxury SUV and an ultimate M car with a hybrid conscience, but fails to convince as a whole.”

Good stuff
Strident performance, lack of road noise

Bad stuff
Punishing ride, iffy hybrid powertrain response, never getting let out of junctions

What is it?

The most expensive BMW money can buy, the most powerful M car ever made, and only the second ever M-only model, after the M1 supercar of the 1970s.

As you can see however, this is no supercar. It’s an enormous SUV, as BMW seeks to splice the success of its best-selling X cars with M Division power like never before. Sounds a bit like those diet plans which claim you can eat all the cake and chips you want and still end up shredded enough to turn in an Oscar-winning performance as a comic book superhero.

In fairness, BMW has pulled off the ‘have your tall, compromised SUV cake and eat it’ trick before, with the original X5 and then the X6. Those cars uprooted the goalposts for what was expected of how a big, heavy, high-riding car handled, and didn’t do BMW’s bottom line any harm either. Which is why there’s now a bijou X1, an enormous X7 and every number in between is covered. There’s even an electric-only crossover: the iX.

So why isn’t the XM called, say, the X8? BMW’s engineers say it’s because simply giving it the next number up underplays how much oomph and extravagance the XM offers (and calling it the X93,421 would’ve looked a bit messy).

This is also the car that moves the M Division into the plug-in hybrid universe – set to expand rapidly in the next model cycle as the M5 and replacements for the X5M and X6M morph into petrol-electric mutants with dizzying power outputs.

How powerful is the XM?
If you’re buying a car that declares ‘get out of my way’ quite as threateningly as the XM, you’d expect a big lump of power. And you get it. Lurking behind those enormous LED-illuminated nostrils is M’s twin-turbo 4.4-litre V8, developing 482bhp. It’s boosted by a gearbox-nestled electric motor, for a total of 644bhp and 590lb ft. That’s sufficient to punt your 2,710kg declaration of deep personal insecurity from 0-62mph in 4.3 seconds and keep on galloping all the way to 174mph.

It's improbable you’d need a faster super-SUV, but BMW’s built one anyway. Just in case. Not an XM Competition, but an XM ‘Label Red’. It develops 745 horsepower.

Why does the XM look so aggressive?

Because the biggest market for this car will be the USA, followed by China. Catch a news bulletin lately and you’d imagine those nations have little to nothing in common, opinion-wise. But they do at least agree on 4x4 design: no grille is too engorged, no bodywork too musclebound, no alloy wheel too vast.

BMW insists the XM has a coupe-ish roofline and doffs its cap to the M1 with the twin roundel badges etched into the rear window, but that’s like claiming the Burj Khalifa pays homage to the pyramids of Egypt because they’re both pointy at the top.

This is very possibly the most obnoxious looking car ever devised, and while you could call that brave or daring, there’s no getting away from the fact that the XM invites people to judge you. It dares anyone who claps eyes on it to respond with hate.

At a time when the planet is once again crisis-ridden and divided, would you choose to transport your beloved family in a vehicle that invites such scorn?

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Спасибо, название ппочитал. Думал это новый хундай повидлыча.

EvgeniyK
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Süper olur yine çok beğendim of of ❤❤❤❤

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Дмитрий ЗАПЛУТАЕВ, ❤Хочешь, Такую, ,❤МАШИНУ❤,,?!. Как работать, Будем, по ❤️‍🔥СПЕКУЛЯЦИИ❤️‍🔥. да сейчас, даже 🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉 ЛЕГКО, если Антон БУРАЧЕНКО, скажет.🎉рановатенько, Пока..., ПОКА. ❤, 😊😊

Антон-гхл
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Даа ШЕДЕВРАЛЬНО КРАСИВ этот ПЕПЕЛАЦ, нет даже и близкого сравнения с моим ХА 6, не чё лет через пять можно будет его приобрести сто пудов Б ушный от 3 хозяина !

virtuosis_artistic_whistling
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جمال مصطنع ..وزائد عن الحد ..وفوضى بدون سيطره ..يحاولون ..لكن تبقى المرسيدس مرسيدس ..

Hany-lczg
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LOVEU XM, ONE DAY MY BEAST WILL BE MINE 😢😢❤❤❤☺☺☺☺☺

Tappytown
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Wunderschöne Karosserie von BMW Bombe 💣 😮🎉😊

enisgolis
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БМВ для меня всегда космос! Я просто в нерва не от дизайна! Это Пушка 🔥

ИгорьМокрушин-тй
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Sehr schön und attraktiv, vielen Dank BMW🙏

Bijan
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When i get my drivers license i wanna drive this BMW.

jevouneyireland
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Хар ким хар нарса деяверади немисларга етадигани йук бу халк Америка тагидан чикиши ва уз сиёсатини юргизиши керак.👍.

НурмухаммадМаматхолих
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Impecable cars luxury new design top crazy congrulations.

FabioNascimento-py
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WOW, BMW IS THE Finish car WORLD 🌎 👌 And the best product ever❤❤❤❤

alexkabia
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This is what I want in my life🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

celinahtseuoa
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Лучше БМВ есть только новый БМВ супер ❤❤❤❤❤

ЭдуардКарапетян-дш
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máquina hein bmw eu ainda vou dirigir uma dessa!!!

alexgomes
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И всётаки наша гранта, это нечто это супер!!😅😅😅

ЕгорРязанцев-ъч
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Произведение искусства
Это может сделать только Великая Держава

ВалерийТрущенков-уд
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oh god... Will I have a chance to buy it someday...?

taymaz
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BMW XM'i Türkiye'ye Getirecek Babayigit Bir Distribütor, Bayi, Galeri Halen Yok Ortada.

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