bmw x6 wallpaper

Bmw x6 wallpaper

The BMW X6, a true testament as on different perspectives, people who wandered the stars everyday, gazing upon the universe scouring for answers as to what constitutes space and time, digging their heads into infinite calculations and equations of quantum electrodynamics and measuring, observing the relationships between positrons and electrons; but at the very same time, they failed in classes, they just couldn't care much about their sobering wives, perhaps they couldn't afford a family of five or pay water bills, their backyards maybe filled with rubbish and their gardens untrimmed. They couldn't cope with a lot of the things we do in reality, but deep down, we all know there's something truly magnificent about these beings that draws them into the boundaries of sheer lunacy or in other words, geniuses.

 Claimed to be the first ever Sports Coupe SUV, BMW engineers had created something we've never seen, something we just couldn't generalize or categorize. They've taken a generic SUV, say the X5 with a standard 4x4 chassis with room to accommodate 5 person plus adequate room for luggage at the back, and chopped off, pressed down the rear section creating a coupe, grand tourer-like sloping roof, leaving us pointless on what are they actually up to.




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There's only one reason for BMW to do the X6, to create something we've never thought we needed, a niche for short, and market it to make every other SUVs on the road sound boring, looked slow and outright embarrassing to be seen driving one. The sloping roof thou does its job of looking 'sporty', it completely destroys the practicality of an SUV, headroom was slashed, hence the seats had to be slanted downwards slightly, for six footers to sit lower, and that kills the legroom and luggage space at the back. They've basically taken a sports car, say something like a Nissan 350Z, plonk it onto a Pajero, then added another 2 doors to take out the structural stiffness of 2 door sports cars, and most annoyingly of all, they've decided that a cup holder and storage compartment placed at the center of the rear bench for perhaps iPODs and cameras are more important than Grandpa, for the modern family of mom, dad, brother and sister.

 The X6, is an SUV that has very limited headroom, legroom (for it's wheelbase) and limited luggage space at the rear, a rear bootlid (thanks to the sports car profile) of around four and a half feet high, reversing the car is a pain in the arse, and it only seats four person.

However, that's what BMW intentionally wish to create. They want to create an SUV that could go off-roading, yet doesn't shout 'I'm a family man'; or they want to create a sports car that seats four rather comfortably, but could ram up road dividers, crushing over squirrels on B roads chasing Imprezas and Mitusbishi Evolutions. This suggests all the sacrifices made for the rear passengers, must be pointing towards something. Yes, a rewarding drive for the one who knows how to appreciate an Ultimate Driving Machine.

 There are plenty of work being done back in Munich, Germans, unlike Japanese, (who would create Type-Rs and then using a torsion beam for costs savings) won't settle for all out marketing ploys, there must be some tricks up their sleeves for supporting their claims, and the X6, is truly, a sports SUV. With front seats that hugs the driver, there's also a very unique 'knee pad' placed at the left and right edges of the gear shift console, allows the supple leather to cushion the driver and passengers knees whilst dealing with hard maneuvers or slaloms or hairpin 180 degree drifts.

Armed with everything the X5 had (an SUV that literally run rings around Merc's ML), the X6 was equipped with X-Drive, Dynamic Stability Control, Dynamic Performance Control, which uses a 'torque vectoring' rear differential, now this is vastly different to 'Traction Control' where the latter applies brake to the wheel that lost traction; the DPC can send up to 80% of the engine's torque to whichever rear wheel that has traction, this means if the X6 was dealing with a hard left turn, the car would then lean towards the right, and the system would then send power to the outer rear right wheel to counter the situation, pushing the car into the hard left corner without the driver knowing it.

 (Dynamic Performance Control Explanation: Outer wheel with more power means more spin, hence at that very moment, it's acting somewhat like an axle with a 20 cent penny pinned to the left of the axle, and a larger 50 cent penny pinned to the right of the axle, turning left when you roll them, now imagine the diameter of these penny changes accordingly given the direction of the car and in situations needed.)

Not to be contempt with, they also equipped the X6 with Adaptive Drive, which continuously calculates and alters the anti roll bar and damper settings, responding to the road conditions. In fact, the computing power of one single X6 alone would have helped the Germans won the Second World War, for the X6 is the first production car equipped with Flex Ray electrical architecture, sending and receiving and computing vastly faster than our normal cars, think of it as 3G vs GPRS speeds in short.

All these electronic wizardry allows a car that weighs 2.3 tons capable of going around bends in mind boggling speeds, yet maintain a composure of a Mitsubishi Evolution. Just imagine The Incredible Hulk doing a 10/10 ballerina mid air split and then landing like a feather.

With all it's capability in place, BMW engineers knew they needn't do much to the X5 derived car, hence standard X5 interiors, with standard BMW build quality (which in this case was excellent), the iDrive (not very excellent), dual climate control, DVD, cup holders, compartments, and a 570 liter boot despite the sloping roof (which is still much lesser compared to an X5) and looking like the angriest BMW you've ever seen, this X6 thou annoyingly pointless, is nonetheless a technological Tour De Force and coupled with the propeller badge, we're very sure BMW Marketing Department's infiltration into the Engineering Department, would do wanders for the Sales Department, and to the misery of Stuttgart, Zuffenhausen and Ingolstadt's R&D Department. 


Bmw x6 wallpaper