BMW X6 On the road!

On my way to the office this early morning, I saw this beautiful White BMW X6 on the road. Drool... Drool... Pant... pant... As I moved closer behind it, I can't help but notice that it has such a road presence as it was very tall from behind as I was actually peering up through my windscreen and occupies almost the whole width of the road!



Hey wait a minute? I thought the car was supposed to be unveiled in the Frankfurt Car show in September? But it is already September! But but but its already on the road in Brunei and I'm looking at it right now! Hello knock knock...Its Brunei Hello! (That ends the silly questions)




Combining the Coupe elegance in an all wheel drive, this is the very first car of its kind, according to BMW. It comes with 4 engine configuration:
1) xdrive35i, straight 6 cylinder Twin Turbo 2,979cc petrol engine churning out 225kW(306PS) with 400Nm of torque @10.9litres per 100km & 6.7 sec 0-100km/h acceleration.



2) xDrive50i V8 Twin Turbo 4,395cc petrol engine producing 300kW(407PS) with 600Nm of torque @ 12.5litres per 100km & 5.4 sec 0-100km/h acceleration. It premieres the world's 1st engine's exhaust superchargers fitted centrally in the V-shaped cylinder banks allowing less weight, reduces pressure loss between intake and exhaust sides and efficiency.



3) xDrive30d straight 6 cylinder single Turbo 2,993cc common rail diesel engine producing 173kW(235PS) with 520Nm of torque @ 8.2litres per 100km & runs 8 sec flat.

4) xDrive35d straight 6 cylinder Twin Turbo 2,993cc common rail diesel engine producing 210kW(286PS) with 580Nm of torque @ 8.3litres per 100km & runs a fiaaast 6.9 sec flat! My definite choice amongst the list.

All comes with a fat 255/50 VR19 Tyres and six speed sports automatic transmission with extra SAG shift paddles. Other things includes the xDrive, adaptive drive, active steering, dynamic stability control, so on and so forth which is pretty much standard on all BMW cars. What I like to talk about is the optional features which is very interesting:
Head Up display: shows the speed, the direction of your destination via GPS navigator, and warnings etc without hindering your vision.
Night Vision: Safety feature using infra-red camera built into the front lights panel showing images on the control navigation display up to 300metres by picking up thermal radiation thus allows more time to react and enhance safety.
iDrive: single hand controller on the centre console which operates the CD player, navigation system, mobile telephone, air-conditioning and also features 8 favourite buttons.
Adaptive headlights: computer controlled with sensors monitoring car speed, yaw rate and steering angle to adjust electro-mechanically the Xenon headlights to match so as to "impressively" better light the road ahead.
High Beam assistant: automatically switches headlights from high beam to low beam and vice-versa as soon as it detects oncoming traffic or low street lighting.
Two stage tailgate: sensors built into the back bonnet so that it will never strike the garage roof or other obstacles by adjust to the height to a lower position.
Reversing Camera: to spot objects, people or approaching vehicles sooner when maneuvering.

All the wonderful gadget makes this vehicle almost human! Wonder how much it does cost at the agent coz that is a big factor in my decision making...