A Brief Encounter A few days before the North West was ordered into Tier 3, I found myself in a plane hanger down at the Bicester Heritage museum with the good folks from BMW.
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They had quite a few new models for us to play with, erm, drive, from the all-new 4 Series, 5 Series, M5 to the new MINI Countryman, and a few others. With such a vast amount of loveliness on offer, I decided to head right to the top of the crop and take the new X6 M Competition for a run, and then the X5 M Competition as I’ve always preferred the X6 over the X5, it’s much a funkier design. As the names suggests, these aren’t your usual Sports Activity Vehicles (SAV), in fact they’re quite unique. Both the X5 M Competition and X6 M Competition are available in a limited run of just 250 examples each, and both enjoy a high-revving 4.4 litre V8 with two turbochargers, M-specific suspension, M xDrive all-wheel drive and 625bhp on tap.
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