This is about as close as you get to a production car looking like a concept car. It's the 2023 BMW XM and it's a $300k super limousine designed to take it to brands like Mercedes-Maybach. This is also sits on its own platform unique to the M brand. Paul Maric gives you a quick look.
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Interior 6:17
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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul.
00:00 I am excited today because have a look at this.
00:02 This is the new BMW XM,
00:05 and we're checking out a pre-production version of this.
00:07 It arrives in Australia in April this year,
00:10 and it has a starting price of just under $300,000.
00:15 Today, we won't be driving this,
00:17 but I'm gonna walk you through,
00:20 looking at the design, my reaction to the design,
00:22 some of the cool features,
00:24 and some of the performance specs we can expect
00:27 when it does finally arrive here in Australia.
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00:40 Okay, so let's kick off with design first.
00:43 So you've got seven colors to pick from.
00:45 This one here is called Cape York Green,
00:47 named after the joint northern part of Australia.
00:50 I've been there before, it's very nice.
00:52 Just don't go swimming in the water.
00:54 I love what they've done here,
00:55 because if you remember what the XM concept
00:57 actually looked like prior to this production version
01:00 being released, it almost looked identical
01:02 to what you're seeing here.
01:03 And that's exciting because we've gone down the path
01:06 of such boring car designs that kind of just tick boxes.
01:09 Whereas this looks, it just looks unreal in person.
01:12 In terms of the size, it's a little bit smaller
01:14 than an X7, but it has this enormous presence here.
01:17 And I love what they've done down the front here.
01:18 So this particular car in that Cape York Green
01:21 is offset with these gold highlights
01:22 that continue around the side of the car.
01:24 It has an unreal sort of textured interior as well
01:28 that I'll run you through shortly.
01:29 But down the front here, you've got this big LED element
01:32 around that kidney grill.
01:33 You have these horizontal slats through there with XM badge.
01:37 Look at that radar sensor, it is absolutely enormous.
01:40 In fact, where I'm squatting here,
01:41 my head is in line with like the top of the dashboard.
01:44 This thing really has a lot of presence about it as well.
01:48 Over here on the headlights, have a look at this.
01:49 So up the top here, you have an LED daytime running light,
01:52 and then the actual headlight module is down the bottom.
01:55 So you have adaptive LED headlights.
01:57 BMW is moving away from their laser headlight systems
02:01 and then going down the path of just using LEDs now
02:03 because you're getting so much power out of them.
02:05 Laser headlights are quite expensive to replace as well.
02:08 Little aero element down the side here as well
02:11 that shoots out next to the tyre.
02:13 Now, speaking of tyres and wheels,
02:15 wow, this is absolutely enormous.
02:17 So you can get this in up to 23 inches in alloy wheel size.
02:22 And this is the 23-inch alloy wheel with the gold accents there.
02:26 So you have a machined finish on the outside
02:28 and a piano black on the inside there.
02:29 Enormous brakes behind the wheels there as well
02:31 with a big BMW centre cap there.
02:34 You have height adjustable suspension here.
02:36 Now, this sits on what they call the CLAR platform.
02:39 It's clustered architecture.
02:40 It means it has a hybrid of steel, aluminium.
02:43 You can then integrate carbon fibre into it as well.
02:45 This platform also supports electrification.
02:47 So this particular car, the XM, is a plug-in hybrid.
02:50 So they pair a twin-turbo V8 with electric motors as well
02:54 to give you this insane propulsion.
02:55 And this is a bespoke M car as well.
02:57 So it isn't really derived from any other version of the BMW product.
03:01 It is just an M product.
03:03 So piano black here on the wheel arches, another XM badge.
03:07 And you can see that gold highlight runs down the side of the car there
03:11 and continues up the top here.
03:12 You don't have to have that.
03:14 You can actually just get like a black highlight here
03:17 if you want to be a little more low-key.
03:19 But I think this looks sensational.
03:20 It really makes this car stand out beautifully.
03:23 Even these door handles have textured elements on them as well.
03:26 This is a pre-production car.
03:27 So some of the stuff that we're seeing here won't be on the final version.
03:30 But love the amount of effort they've gone into here
03:32 to support that price tag.
03:33 More piano black down the side here as well.
03:36 And as we move further to the back, have a look at these LED lights.
03:40 They wrap all the way up the top there.
03:42 You've got these faux grille sections on the side here,
03:45 which pay homage to earlier BMW M products.
03:49 Really like that.
03:50 Vertical section here as well.
03:52 And the stacked exhaust pipes.
03:54 Kind of reminiscent of the...
03:57 I think the ISF had a similar setup there.
03:59 So it looks pretty cool.
04:00 More piano black down the bottom here.
04:02 It is really nicely textured there with that diffuser.
04:04 More of that gold highlight around the bottom edges there.
04:07 Big XM badge here.
04:09 Look at this as well.
04:10 So this BMW logo here is textured into that glass as well,
04:13 which is kind of cool.
04:14 Up the top there, you have a shark fin aerial.
04:17 Little boot lip spoiler here as well.
04:19 It is quite a resolved design.
04:20 And it just looks unreal in person.
04:23 So let me know in the comments section below,
04:24 what do you think about the design?
04:27 I know that in pictures, it is kind of outrageous and out there,
04:29 but seriously, here in person, it just looks unreal.
04:33 So let me know what you reckon down in the comments section below.
04:35 So we can't drive it, but I'll run you through
04:37 just some of the key highlights here.
04:39 Have a look at that.
04:39 So twin turbocharged 4.4 litre V8 engine.
04:44 It looks unreal.
04:45 So up the top here, you have one of the meatiest
04:49 bracing systems I've ever seen.
04:51 So you've got strut tower braces up the top here,
04:53 but then you have this whole front section braced as well.
04:55 This twin turbocharged petrol engine produces,
04:58 combined with the electric motor and the EV system,
05:01 just under 500 kilowatts of power and 800 newton metres of torque.
05:05 And that's split by being 360 kilowatts and 650 newton metres
05:09 from the petrol engine and 145 kilowatts of power
05:12 and 280 newton metres from the electric motor.
05:15 And that's all paired to an eight speed automatic transmission
05:17 and an all wheel drive system.
05:19 But I mentioned before the electric components.
05:21 Let me run you through how the battery system works.
05:23 Now, around the side here, this is where you're going to charge the car.
05:25 It only has AC charging, so no DC charging,
05:28 but it's on an enormous battery, about 30 kilowatt hours in size.
05:31 And that's good enough to give this a driving range of about 80 kilometres
05:34 on pure electric alone.
05:35 The whole purpose of this, though, is to give you that extra propulsion
05:38 when it's combined with that internal combustion engine.
05:41 And that means zero to 100 time of just over four seconds.
05:44 There is an even faster version of this coming with a thousand
05:48 newton metres of torque as well.
05:50 So it's a pretty unreal figures.
05:53 So before we jump inside the car, let's have a quick look at how much space
05:56 you got in here.
05:57 So a little over 500 litres of cargo space just here in its standard trim.
06:01 You can drop the second row there to expand the space to a little
06:05 under 2000 litres as well.
06:07 So it's a good space.
06:08 It's just this looks like it doesn't actually move.
06:11 So I don't know if that's a pre-production thing or not, but
06:13 it's not as big as I thought it was going to be.
06:16 So we are inside the $300,000 BMW XM.
06:22 So I mentioned before that this is a BMW M standalone model.
06:26 So it's not like it's derived from an X5 or an X6 or anything like that.
06:29 Because it is a BMW M model as well, you get these M buttons here
06:34 on the steering wheel, which let you shortcut to your M modes.
06:37 Love this infotainment system as well.
06:39 So it's iDrive 8 on a curved display, so it's almost 15 inches in size
06:42 in the center here.
06:43 Touchscreen, but can also be driven by the iDrive controller.
06:46 Head of the driver is another display that's just over 12 inches in size.
06:50 Infotainment and tech wise, it's cool, but have a look at this design.
06:55 This is this is just something else.
06:57 So you can option this with a number of different interior design elements.
07:01 And this one in particular has vintage leather.
07:04 So that's this.
07:06 The way that it's been described to me is leather that has imperfections.
07:09 So it's kind of genuine leather and not perfected leather
07:13 like the leather you have on seats, so you might find imperfections in it.
07:16 Then it continues up the top here with this Alcantara trim to the roof,
07:19 which I'll show you in a second when we get in the back.
07:21 But it is just a spectacular design.
07:24 And they've been so daring here in terms of just giving it that appearance
07:28 that you wouldn't normally expect in a BMW vehicle.
07:32 Even have a look at these seats.
07:33 They just look absolutely insane, really, really impressed with all of that.
07:37 And I am very much keen to drive this because under the skin,
07:40 it has a number of different M features.
07:42 So you have active steering on the rear axle.
07:46 So that means it's going to be able to tuck itself in nicely.
07:48 This is going to be a heavy car because you've got an internal combustion engine,
07:51 big battery pack as well, and it is an enormous car in person.
07:55 So I suspect on the road it is going to feel nice and big.
07:57 But I'm sure they would have ironed those kinks out by the time it launches.
08:00 So really impressed here from the driver's point of view.
08:03 But this car really is designed to be experienced from the back seat.
08:07 So let's hop in the back and see exactly what that feels like.
08:10 OK, so this is kind of where you want to be seated in the XM
08:15 because it kind of feels like the iX to me in the back here.
08:18 They've really gone to town on luxury
08:19 and just giving your passenger the ultimate experience.
08:22 We're going to start with the roof,
08:24 because I guess the trend was to have a glass roof, you know,
08:27 all sort of cars on the road.
08:28 But BMW has gone, OK, let's delete the glass roof and instead go with this 3D effect.
08:33 And this looks unreal.
08:34 So it's kind of like an inverse mountain, an upside down mountain.
08:37 But then they put in 100 LEDs around the edge here
08:41 that really lights it up nicely and just makes it pop.
08:44 So when you're sitting in the back here, yes, you can't see out of it.
08:47 But, you know, I think it just looks fantastic.
08:50 And that all continues here along the sides and the roof with the Alcantara trim as well.
08:55 You've got a 20 speaker Bowers & Wilkins sound system, 1500 watts.
08:58 So you can really pump some tunes while you're at it.
09:01 Around the edges of the seat as well, you have, it's kind of like a couch.
09:04 You can basically lean into it and kick back and relax.
09:07 And that's designed, again, to make you feel nice and comfortable in the back here.
09:11 Only thing that I'm kind of concerned about here is how flat these seats are.
09:15 If you're punting around a mountain or something like that
09:18 and you've got anyone in the second row here,
09:19 they're going to be flying all over the place
09:21 because there isn't much bottom support here at all.
09:24 But outside of that, there's stacks of knee room, headroom's excellent.
09:27 It is just a really nice and relaxing place to be.
09:30 So much so that I don't really want to get out of here.
09:32 Let's have a look in the center here.
09:33 So two cupholders.
09:34 This is a really early pre-production car,
09:36 so some of the plastics and stuff here aren't finished.
09:39 But I think as an early indication, this is, I don't know,
09:43 it's kind of like the new version of the 7 Series, right?
09:45 It is the SUV limousine, and it really, really feels high end and premium here.
09:51 So very, very impressed with this.
09:53 So that has been your first look at the BMW XM.
09:57 Let me know what you reckon in the comments section below.
09:59 I know I've gushed a little bit about this, but it is pretty exciting to see,
10:02 you know, these concept car vehicles actually come to life and
10:06 and take place in front of you.
10:08 So let me know what you reckon in the comments section below.
10:11 Do you think this is a cool looking vehicle or are you going to give it a hard
10:13 pass at 300 grand? I'm keen for your feedback.
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