:bustingup

:gunner:

:thumbup:

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?

Is SUV ownership really that taboo over there?? Amazing the constraints that can be socially driven in a free society.

Yes, people feel justified in expressing anger and at times acting violently on the basis that we (the SUV driver) care little for the planet, care nothing about killing other people, and are so lacking in the trouser department that we need a big car to compensate.

Welcome to England! :confused:

All media driven though eh Steved
My wife drives an ML63 because she likes it, not because she wants to kill anyone or hurt the planet etc.. people are way too pc here in the UK.
I personally don't pay any attention to any of them & live my life the way I want to, not how I am expected to.

http://benno.newsvine.com/_news/2007...s-of-suv-tyres

the same problem in sweden :angryfire

Swedish activists deflate hundreds of SUV tyres


During the past week a group of Stockholm activists have deflated hundreds of SUV tyres to protest the excess use of fossil fuels. The group called Asfaltsdjungelns Cowboys (English: The Cowboys of the Concrete Jungle) leaves a letter for the owner of the vehicle behind:

Your SUV kills!

We have deflated one or several tyres of your SUV. Don’t take it personal. It’s your car we don’t like. [...] either you are ignorant of, or you don’t care about the fact that all the gas you consume by driving around in your SUV in the streets of the city has devastating consequences for others. Scientists are entirely sure that we are very close to pushing climate change over a threshold, into a phase where it will be totally out of control.
[...]
That’s why we have disarmed your SUV by deflating the tires. Since you live in a city with a functioning and accessible public transportation system you will have no problem going where you want without your SUV.
/ The Indians of the Concrete Jungle




!ouch:

I don't know what's more alarming global warming or crazy activists ?

Activists = unemployed @hole.

At the risk of sounding American... it looks like "it's a free country" needs to be a slogan elsewhere...