BMW xDrive

Jump up a little bit further.

More fun to drive, I feel like, is a 2015 M235i xDrive.

Ooh,

I like it.

Only 45,000 miles.

And again, all-wheel drive, I think you'd love this.

And I thought, oh, if we're already shopping 2 Series that are xDrive, why don't we go find a 230? And I found a 2019 for even less.

Look at this.

And it's taking the nameplate in two different directions.

The electric i3 xDrive brings 463 horsepower and an estimated range of 468 miles.

Well, the M350 xDrive keeps 437 horsepower in Line 6 in the lineup.

And we'll look at what's new as far as technology and including BMW's planned drift moment feature for the M350.

So planned drift moment.

And let's run down some of the things here.

that you get.

Now gasoline models, the 330 and 330 xDrive both use a two liter turbocharged four cylinder engine.

Grand Coupe.

So there is an M235 xDrive version of that car.

That one's wild.

Yeah.

I'm looking at it right now.

If you go to BMW USA and you look at the 3 Series, there's M3 sedan, M3 competition sedan, M3 competition xDrive sedan.

Show me this M3 competition rear wheel drive.

I just showed it to you.

Even with a manual transmission, I can't keep up.

The spread

between 0 to 60 times is 4.1 for the car, the regular M3 sedan, and then the 3.8 for the competition, and then 3.4 for the competition with xDrive, which has a little bit more power.

Well, not when you're launching with all-wheel drive, which is what's giving you that acceleration, right? I mean, that's nuts.

BMW's next in the news, raising its EPA range for the new iX5.

So the spec is the xDrive 60, or rather the 60 xDrive as it's meant, meant to be called.

Uh, 450 miles is the new big number, up from 435 miles forecasted earlier this year.

The SUV's going on sale in the United States in the first quarter of next year.

Yeah.

Green, the brown interior, xDrive, competition.

Things

are rocket ship.

So if it already has more from the factory than it did previously, I can expect the same type of shenanigans [laughs] in the street when it comes to the new BMWs.

Now, the pricing of it is somewhere, I think up to like almost 70,000 for the M350, like the xDrive.

Starts around, it's gonna start a little bit over 50,000, which is normal pricing for the BMW 3 Series.

But I did wanna speak about the interior.

Of course, it's all-wheel drive.

It's an xDrive.

And it reaches 62 miles an hour, 100 kph, 3.9 seconds.

That's a second quicker than the 50 spec.

like the least BMW

BMW in the sense that it's probably the least sporty BMW that you can buy but um you know it has the bmw badge uh it has i like the wheels it has the cool black uh 18 inch black alloys um seven seats it's being sold for 14 400 pounds which is sort of roughly equivalent to 27 28 000 australian dollars so within budget um The particular model that I have is located in Stoke, and it is a 2.0L 220D M Sport with the xDrive package.

So it's a very interesting spec.

So it's all-wheel drive, which is very rare for a people mover, especially in Australia.

... additional 17 horsepower.

Standard xDrive intelligent all-wheel drive.

So right now, you can only get the gas-powered car-

Mm-hmm

Just turn it off, period.

I-

Or maybe it's just, do I have to carry around the extra running gear? Why don't just offer the model? Like non xDrive.

Well, see, now, now you're way out on a limb.