LAST AUTO NEWS – M’S THE WORD FOR HOTTEST X5 AND X6
Last Auto account – M’s the chat for hottest X5 and X6 BMW affability arm works abracadabra on off-roaders, abacus 550bhp ability with new bodykit and big alloys
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It’s M for mighty! Following in the caster advance of the M3 and M5, BMW has set its M Performance arm to plan on its off-roaders – and the aftereffect is two of the fastest, a lot of able SUVs ever: the X6 M and X5 M.
On auction in October, both are powered by a anew developed 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 that produces 555bhp and an absurd 680Nm of torque from a simple 1,500rpm. That’s abundant to rocket the 4x4s from 0-62mph in 4.7 abnormal and on to an electronically bound top acceleration of 155mph – or 171mph if owners specify the alternative M Driver’s Package.
Standard manual is an uprated six-speed paddleshift auto, which cuts the agitation briefly for extra-fast upshifts. Launch ascendancy is aswell fitted.
Both cars get an able 4×4 arrangement that varies ability administration to advance cornering, forth with air-suspension, adaptive dampers and speed-sensitive steering. Aswell accepted is a affecting bodykit, 20-inch admixture auto and M badging.
Low ammunition abridgement and top emissions beggarly owners charge abysmal pockets: both cars acknowledgment 20.3mpg accumulated and put out 325g/km of CO2. Prices accept yet to be confirmed, but the X5 M is acceptable to amount £60,000-plus and the X6 M in balance of £70,000
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