SINGAPORE - What does a million dollar BMW feel like? Well, incredibly stressful to drive for one. As with any expensive car that passes through our mere peasant hands, the pressure to keep it in pristine condition is real, lest we inadvertently empty our bank accounts through an unfortunate prang. But it also doesn’t help too that the BMW XM...
SINGAPORE - What does a million dollar BMW feel like? Well, incredibly stressful to drive for one. As with any expensive car that passes through our mere peasant hands, the pressure to keep it in pristine condition is real, lest we inadvertently empty our bank accounts through an unfortunate prang.
The car’s styling, with its aggressive bulges, squared-off fenders and large imposing grille with its illuminated rings certainly strikes an impression that’s rather in-your-face, and the effect is accentuated with the test car’s striking metallic green paintwork with gold highlights which only serves to draw even more attention to itself.
But the XM is not merely a case of all show and no go. Under the bonnet lies a 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 that packs in 489hp and 650Nm of torque all on its own, which are already pretty impressive numbers in its own right. Obviously as a hybrid the initial takeoff bears the usual characteristics of how an electric motor pushes almost all the torque to the wheels near instantaneously to propel you forward. But when the V8 engine comes to life as you build up the boost, it almost feels like the car is about to unleash the Kraken, with its bellowing roar rumbling through in a wave of fury.
The trade-off though is a ride that can be a bit rough, especially given the car’s massive 23-inch wheels, but that’s really par for the course for a performance-oriented machine like the XM. In any case, it already is an improvement over previous full-fat M SUVs like the X3 M, which often delivered rock-hard ride qualities that were nothing short of back-shattering.
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