2018 BMW X6 & X6M First Drive Review 

Anyone else accidentally tune out Alex and become mesmerized by that scenic drive? Wow what a route

I see many comments hate the Alex logo on the car and are compelled to tell Alex what he needs to do or that he ruined the video because of it... Alex can do what he wants, it’s his video. When you all get your own channel and start producing quality videos that are informative and astute, then you can feel free not to brand it.

I love the way it looks. Different, powerful and exciting.

I have the 2018 X6. It's not meant to be a "family car" per say. It's just my mother and me when I'm driving her around. I don't care about the back seat really. I love the car. There are of course a lot of cars out there with more than 300 hp but that's all I need. I rarely fall for the meat-head that wants to race me from a stop light but I did the other day and the G's that pulled on me made me light headed. I actually got a little nervous. I may only have 300 HP but the twin turbo is no joke. I won't be doing that again.

The logo on side was unnecessary you have over 200k subscribers, you are one of the best reviewers out there with a unique breakdown per car.

Very nice. I want one. Crazy performance numbers and style and polish almost unmatched. Great video.

I like your reviews - really. But you are now taking your "branding" a little far. Please let us enjoy and judge the look of the automobile without the monstrous logo decal. Thanks

12:50 technically, the 2004-2006 X5 4.8is was in stride with the Porsche cayenne (honorable mention 4.6is) and the first ever BMW SAV with M gauges but not an S designated engine. These were the predecessors to BMW making an M SAV AKA the X5M and X6M

So car companies invented the "It's-like-a-car-just-bigger" vehicle? Wow.. All that innovation... :))

Great review, as always. I have a X5 with the 3.0 diesel. Brilliant car with amazing chassis.

I really like it so much I bought one for my wife... really nice sport SUV. Way better looking than anything else out there. No wonder everyone else is trying to copy. How many people actually use their suv for what it's meant to be...? We get a lot of looks and double looks when we drive around town. Couldn't be much happier with our x6...sporty suv fun to drive..!!!!

Noticed you haven’t reviewed the Porsche Macan and Cayenne which would give a fairer contrast with the BMW’s

"It is a little bit too easy to go to way too fast in these cars" - this is actually an anti-joke. It is actually correct because these cars suppress noise and leave drivers with feeling that they move slower. All due to roots of the design - cruise on Autobahn at speeds twice (or more) than everywhere else.

Love it! It's one of my favorite SUV out there!

Forget the haters. Logo looks great!

Consider "The even more stylish X5, with trade-off" or "Make sacrifice for beauty, will you?" lol.

From some angles I like it and from some I don't lol. I see enough of these on the road near me. They look well enough in person, it's in pictures where they look kinda funky.

Very nice review. Thorough and informative. Keep up the good work and I look forward to your future videos!

Great video! I like the regular X6. I don't want my next vehicle to be all that practical.

At least the proportion is a bit easier on the eye compared to the X4. I do agree with you that M6 is a better choice for a fast coupe especially considering the X6M is probably not quite suitable for off roading anyway.

i really don't like bmw being on my 2nd one, but i am seriously considering buying a third when its time to upgrade and the x6m and x5m are on the list.

Awesome review Alex, you get it!

Alex 2022 coming up time to change the music in the beginning of video

I prefer the first generation exterior design over this, interior wise, most BMWs looks the same anyways with minimal changes, I don't like the interior of the Mercedes gle coupe either but I'll choose its exterior over this.

Don't know why but this vehicle really looks huge. Alex is neither a short nor an unhealthy thin person, but standing next to it, he really looked kind of tiny.

That shifter is weird...you mentioned it goes into park when you turn it off, but what if you want to get it into park without turning it off? How is that done? I think BMW’s typical shifter that’s in most of their cars is fine, why do automakers have to keep changing these? It’s only going to create confusion.

Remind me of a sedan but lifted or something like that.

Sure wish you'd quote the Labor Prices at the Dealership for these Cars..I found a BIG Difference btwn the Mkrs..

Great review. Thanks!

Back in 2015, i started a new job and the VP had a X6 and CEO had a Corvette There's a rapper who has a white x6 he calls "panda"

Another excellent video.

You say this is not the 1st or 2nd fastest SUV. Outside the Urus, where do you see this X6M falls inline to top end? I've seen a handful of reputable videos that this stock will outrun the Trackhawk.

The temp gauge goes to 340!?! Once the engine temp gets beyond 250 or so I'm not curious if it's at 295 or 340. It just a question of if your engine is fried or fried extra crispy.

I love it

Could you please review the 2018 Velar?

What an awful concept for a vehicle. SUV, but make it less practical. Call it a coupe even though a coupe is and always has been a two-door vehicle. Charge a fortune for it. It doesn't do coupe or SUV well, so whats the point? Pretty senseless if you ask me. The only worse thing I can think of is the Murano CrossCabriolet. Despite all that, great review! Always thorough and full of facts, stats and logic.

Couldn’t you consider the Tesla Model X a competitor to this?

The climate control display is overly cluttered with the decimals. I don't need to know that temperature is set to 60.0*F instead of just 60*F.

Best car reviewer out there! Alex, why you never review Teslas? It would be really interesting to watch.

Finally picked up a new wallet, eh? Great review as always.

How about the Porsche Cayenne Turbo S?

If kept long term a Cayenne might be a better choice, BMW's V8's reliability is very scary.

I love BMW X6 M the only drawback for me is the same ol interior no changes at all. the price is way too high 120k really ?

Not sure what the purpose is for all these slopped roofline SUV's companies are coming out with. You could not even keep your head upright in the rear seat, something akin to the 3rd row in a large crossover. Simply not practicle. And the price, well that's not practicle either. Alex can you please test a new 2018 Mazda 6 Signature soon, since I am considering it as my next "car".

Isn't it time for the 2019?

Mat Maran doesn't think its worth the $, let alone the cost for Maintenance is 8 cents Mile more..You think thats worth $4k more per $50k miles? Better Trade it in at 30k miles then

That giant blue AA sticker on the door is just obnoxious, what the hell man? We know it's on your channel, no need for that. No other RU-vidr does that, even ones with 1mil + subscribers.

Really like it overall, but as I have mentioned several times, this car is just not for me due to that insufficient rear seat headroom. I am 6.3", and there is no way I could sit there comfortably regardless of how much legroom it offers back there.

Nothing wrong with the logo

The Porsche is just as fast if not faster. It looks far batter than that Aztec

Looks like a shoe from the side 👟

I actually don't mind the logo but I am clearly in minority on this issue

Just get a license plate with the logo if you must show it.

Alex, I love now that AVA gang mix match their reviews, instead of releasing the review on the same car at the same time. Smart move. Logo on the car is eh.... that's not do that again?

Jersey plates in Oregon?

Too many compromises for such an ugly shape...As always a great review!!

Here is some context on these performance SUVs.... The E9x M3 ran to 60 in 4.4 seconds and did the quarter mile in 12.9 @ 111, with city/highway FE at 14/20. The X3 M40i is as fast to 60, a hair slower through the quarter (13 @ 107), and gets *18/25* FE. Grip/braking are tough because tires have come a long way in 10 years... I'm sure at the limit the M3 will leave the X3 for dead, but who drives that hard on the street? I've tracked performance cars and motorcycles... if you are going that hard on the street you're an asshole. I understand and share the preference for proper CARS, but honestly, for a responsibly driven street vehicle, something like this X5 with the 3 liter is a good all around package. You give up very little objectively; cars have become the emotional choice.

This could be the Aztec of the new era, with a better engine. Don't get that reference? Okay, it is HIDEOUS! Ugly.

The sad part about these SUVs with performance engines is that they suck on the track

Just buy a Jeep instead..better equipped hugely cheaper and way more capable

Absolutely revolting.

The X6 has always been ugly. But with that orange paint, it is truly horrific. More $$$, more weight, less cargo room, less visibility, and a whole lot more ugly. I never will understand why someone buys one of these vehicles.

Can you please get rid of the logos Alex! I appreciate the pitch but it interferes with the aesthetics and overall informational aspect of your reviews.

Why get this over a cayenne lol

oh my eyes! nasty!

Looks like a Focus on steroids.

Yuck

One of the ugliest things to ever come out of the BMW factory. Barf worthy.

Isn’t this a horrible selling vehicle? I’m so tired of hearing things like “four door coupe” or “coupe suv” from automotive manufacturers. Coupes are a TWO DOOR car.

Ugly front and back 😕 I’d call the color more burnt orange, not red... and Alex, pls don’t stick your magnet emblem on car, def not necessary.

What a beautiful machine, ugly color tho :S

Boy, you are the ANTI CLARKSON. Good luck

No Diesel? WTF :( EU has much better choice.

HIDEOUS CAR.

Alex, please never put your logo on a car again.

so they took a car and raised it few inches and now its thousands of dollars more.....yeah, typical of german marketing. and when it hits 100k miles, it'll be pretty much worthless because nobody wants to spend $1000 or more everytime they take it in for service which will happen very often.....uh, no thanks, been there done that. Will hold on to my old lexus that cost me less than $500 in repair in 5 years of ownership.

you forgot to mention wireless charging in the center console.

I struggle to understand people complaining about x6 practicality. If you must have have space buy X5 . Love X6 looks and design as it has the look of British bull Dog

I am driving the X6M and I am loving it. Who needs space in the rear? Not the 2nd or 3rd fastest SUV? Which one ist faster? The Range, the Porsche? rofl! I smoke the U-GLE Amg Merc on a daily basis and I am not afraid of the TrackHawk.

I thought the Infiniti FX45 was the original fast crossover way back in 2003.🤔

Its going to be change next year x5-x6

so many buttons....

putting your logo on the car is shit. hey, here's what the car looks like....with a shitty logo on it in case you were wondering.......NO I WASN'T WONDERING

Wow... is someone stealing your videos? The car looks odd with your logo

Lots of info on the X6M....almost nothing on the X6. I was hoping you would at least drive it.

Surprising conclusion.. Alex was excited while driving the X6M. At the end he said he would prefer many other BMW models.

I love the x6 I have one! Black with red interior!

The Acura RDX is a RED.

I quite like the X6 and I think the talk about practicality misses the point. If I need to transport something, by the time it piles up into the greenhouse, it's time to think about a trailer. Same happens in respect to house support materials, such as bark. Look at it this way: X6 is large enough to accept anything that you can pile on a flat cart in IKEA. If X6 were classified as a sedan, nobody would complain. But it really is that: a normal car that is not flat like stupid cars of the 1970s and is more in line with the cars of the 1940s. Now of course you want to drive a pancake-shaped car for ultimate performance, so I would not be buying an X6 M: that mission is better accomplished by Corvette. But a regular X6 is just about perfect - except for the price. P.S. As far as the rear headroom, I'm not a chaffeur, I buy the car for myself and my spouse who riders shotgun. When I pick my children at the airport, they'll have to deal with it.

Orange... lol

Awkward as an SUV and impractical as a coupe. Just awful.

An interesting concept, but... money would be better spent on a more usable concept. Rear window is useless, unless a Kenworth pulls up behind you; otherwise, it's just the second segment of a panoroof. Its back end is just too jacked, like some bully gave it a wedgie. Victims unlucky enough to suffer the rear headroom, probably feel similar discomfort.

Traction control button isn't hardcore ON/OFF button. In adjusts between full stability control, limited stability control with wheelslip allowance and disabled traction and slip control. MUCH better than average YES/NO(notactuallyno)

The GLE looks MUCH MUCH better especially at the back. This looks bulbous and heavy but contrived at the back. Horrible.

This is exactly what Ford wants to do with their sedan replacements. CUV sedan look

I dont like the roofline and the fact that it is neither a sedan nor an suv, but a bad compromise.

BMW kidney-grille? You mean BMW buck teeth.

Yes its a Oarngish redish color than all Red..

This car is a mesh of mess....

The logo is a bit much... lol