The off-road M5

摘要

The new BMW X6 is the first coupe SUV. So is it the world's sporties 4×4, or just a step too far? Hilton Holloway finds out after a 1000-mile drive in the United States. When BMW launched the 8-series coupe in late 1989, it was the very embodiment of 1980s innovation and high-tech bombast. But the 8-series had also arrived at a very pivotal moment in recent history. The Berlin Wall had just fallen and Europe was in the middle of one of its periodic environmental panics. In that atmosphere the 8-series seemed particularly out of step with the times.