A great SUV, if you can get past how it looks
It’s expensive, ugly and gobbles petrol at a ferocious rate, but the new BMW X6 is a hell of a performer, writes Matt Robinson
BMW’s X6 was truly a trendsetter. Before the first-generation’s startling debut in 2008, no company had tried to blend the attributes of a 4x4 (or SUV) with those of a coupé. BMW decided to venture into such a risky realm, taking the X5 Mk2 as a basis and then redrawing its bodywork with a swooping roofline and aggressively chunky appearance.
Since then, across two generations – the second X6 appeared in 2014 - ...
