Originally Posted by B-Line

Yes, I KNOW there will be no X5 M...

But again, the information above is EXTREMELY unclear.

If the MX6 is going to have the V10, then it will NOT have the Bi-Turbo V8?
Or will there be two options, a Bi-Turbo V8 regular edition or a ///M version V10??

And I go back to the ORIGINAL question. What is the X5 going to have as the new "is" model? According to Lemans, if BMW wants to steer it's "is" customers to the X6, then they will not make a "is" model for the X5.

But if they do make an "is" model, I assume it will then be a V8 bi-turbo. But that would negate the comment that BMW is trying to push the "is" customer to the X6 because they are clearly giving the "is" customer the V8 Bi-Turbo option.

so lets make a graph:
X5: (E70)
3.0 - inline 6
4.4i - V8
???is -

X6: (E72)
???
V8 Bi-Turbo
///M V10

And when? what are the proposed dates for each model?
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