The BMW X5M and X6M are all about excess. Excess power (if that's possible), excess girth, and, as we already knew, excess cost. BimmerFile is reporting that the X5M will ding your budget to the tune of $85,400, while the X6M will set you back $88,900. And anyone that has ever priced out a Bimmer with options knows that those prodigious figures are only the baseline of what will no doubt be two even more expensive BMWs.

But for nearly $90,000, you get what, for now, are the two most powerful BMWs on the road. Both models will reap the benefits of a 555 hp, 500 lb-ft twin turbo 4.4L V8. That's 55 hp and 105 lb-ft more than the M5 or M6; two vehicles that cost more than their crossover counterparts. The M treatment will also add more aggressive aesthetics, torque-vectoring AWD, and massive 15.6 inch front rotors to help these flying bricks stop on a dime (or 900,000 dimes, really). Does that make the X5M and X6M a compelling value? If you're in the market for a 550 hp crossover, we guess so, because outside of the substantially more expensive Porsche Cayenne Turbo S ($124,000) these new Bimmers are the only other family-haulers with that kind of muscle.

 

Cayenne Turbo > X5M or X6M

 

On what basis?

Price?
Power?
Weight?
Chassis?
Performance?





Badge?

 

^^ On the basis of luxury, performance, quality, and awesomeness.

 

Therein lies the rub; the comparative metrics that I quoted can be compared objectively (with the exception of the chassis, and my only claim there was going to be that it was newer), whereas the criteria unique to your judgment cannot be.

For the record, "awesomeness" sounds suspiciously like "badge" to me.

 

what a nonsensical response

555HP/$85,400 versus 542HP/$124,000. the BMW makes a pretty compelling case for itself.

 

at the end of the day, would rather have a BMW or a Porsche?

 

well, they are both prestigious brands. it's not like we are comparing the porsche to a kia.

 

So it looks like I WAS right all along.

 

found some more pics.