What is The BMW X6 Designed To Be

 BMW recently brought out the X6 and nobody really knew what they were trying to compete with. The car they made looked like the front two thirds of a X5 had been given a 6 series rear end. The design has four doors and most of the car ahead of the windshield from the X5, but with a low sloping rear end of a coupe. It almost like they took a Mercedes CLS style four door coupe and put it on the X5's SUV platform. The X6 competes with cars like the Infiniti FX, Mercedes ML, Porsche Cayenne and the Range Rover Sport, but that doesn't make sense because the BMW X5 competes with those cars too. The engines however are some of BMW's best. It gets the wonderful twin turbo 3.0L I6 with 300hp in the X6 xDrive35i and a 400hp twin turbo 4.4L V8 with an amazing 450lb.ft. of torque in the X6 xDrive50i. Those engines also aren't available on the X5, which is too bad, because those engines are both extremely good. The X6 is also very good to drive, but the X5 is almost as good and the 3-series is much better to drive. The X6 is built off the X5, but is lower and has been tweaked for more sportiness. That means that the X6 is very good to drive, but sport sedans are better. A big problem with the X6 is it only has 4 seats, like a coupe. That one feature means the competitors are better. The Porsche Cayenne might not be, it's ugly, it costs a lot, and doesn't drive as well as the Range Rover Sport. The Range Rover Sport isn't as good to drive as the X6, but is more practical, and is a real SUV, because of its off road ability. The Mercedes ML is just as good to drive as a X5 and therefore almost as good as a X6 to drive, but again is much more practical. The Infiniti FX is the X6's real competition, it's better. The FX drives better than the X6, costs less, has 5 seats, has more space than the X6's tiny cargo space, and has the same performance. The FX35 has 303hp from its 3.5L V6 which is the same as a X6 xDrive35i and the FX50 has a 390hp from its 5.0L V8. I know that the FX50 has 10hp less than the X6 xDrive50i, but is priced closer to the xDrive35i and it weighs less than the X6. The X5 is another competitor to the X6, the X5 4.8i is only $1000 more than a X6 xDrive35i, but has 55more horsepower, 5 or 7 seats, more cargo space, and is faster. I would just choose a BMW 335xi sedan or Infiniti M45X instead of a X6 though. They drive much, much better, cost less, are faster, and still have all wheel drive.