I answered NO (i.e. I will not be dissapointed), however my only area of doubt concerns two aspects;

1. Price - the E70 X5 is already quite pricey compared with E53, and after spending £84k on my ML63, I would quite like the X6 to feel like 'good' value. My concern is that BMW will price it like 6-series compared to 5-series which will be likely be a showstopper for something less practical than an X5/ML.

2. Public reaction - over here in the UK driving an SUV is seen as only slightly less socially unacceptable than collecting child pornography. I would like the X6 to open up a niche that allows us to enjoy most of the SUV attributes, whilst dropping slightly below the radar of the witch-hunters and tree-huggers.

Otherwise on performance and looks, I am expecting to be quite pleased. Again the only conundrum is which model I can cope with after being used to a 510bhp SUV. This comes back to my first point (i.e. price), will I have to buy the top model or will the turbo performance of the mid-range models be tune-able to give me most of what I'm used to?

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