cosmos, Wonderful retort to the "Moron Trend" piece. MT really seems to have a hard on for BMW these days???? I've said this on several X6 forums..... This MT writer and alot of his brethren in the car press and I might add...a fair amount of old school car enthusiast fall into the elitist/traditionalist camp of thinking regarding performance auto's.They are all still pissed that BMW and the other "traditional" performance car companies are making SAVs,SUVs,SAC's....etc.I've got just as much of a right to drive a high performance,sporty SAV as they have a right to drive an M3 or M5.If BMW...or godforbid...Porsche can build enough SUV's and make money doing it.....have at it,cuz I can't get all my shit in an M3!!!!!!!!! I agree some of the other auto companies are catching up to Bimmer.....but who is the comp still shooting at-from the lead position ....yes Bimmer.Enough from me...I gotta grab a few BP pills!!! Thanks! PalBay