Where to begin?
RWD? Cool? I guess it'll be good for California/warmer states, but I can't see massive uptake of that in Canada or where it snows. I mean, why bother with a behemoth with RWD if you can already get smaller, more nimble drivers? Choice is nice, I guess...but given that the AWD set-up in the X5 and X6 favours the rear wheels, I can't see a RWD only version as 'desirable'...but that's just me.
As a result, fuel consumption has dropped by as much as 22 percent in some models, and coefficient of drag is reduced from 0.34 to 0.32.
That seems patently unreasonable to me. There's no way a drop in 0.02cd could improve fuel economy by 22%. There's more to the story here, there has to be. I mean, BMW has always been pretty reasonable with fuel economy, so I don't doubt it, but I think more was done (transmission changes? more than 10kg saved in some models?)
That you (and by 'you,' I mean lucky Europeans) can get the tri-turbo diesel...*swoon*
I mean, look at the numbers:
3.0L turbo petrol with 300 hp and 300 lb-ft - uses most gas
3.0L turbo diesel with 255 hp and 413 lb-ft - uses less gas
3.0L tri-turbo diesel with 381 hp and 546 lb-ft - still uses less gas than the petrol
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And I'm sure others will disagree with me, but Audi and MB can go to hell with their iterations of the glue-on iPad and minimalistic interior designs...I think BMW has a true winner here:
![](http://www.autos.ca/galleries/2015/images/bmw/2015_bmw_x6/2015_bmw_x6-lw-22-3782.jpg)
^^ to me, THAT is the proper blend of sport and luxury. WAF has been and remains much higher for this interior than for those in the Audi/MB.