2011 Mansory BMW X6 M

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Mansory is showing off all their wares at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. Yesterday we brought you photos of their Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG and the Bentley Continental GT and now we have the Swiss division's take on the BMW X6 M.The BMW X6 M's stock engine has been left under the hood but tweaked a bit to put out about 670hp and 700lb-ft of torque. The power has helped performance, as the German car can hit from rest 62mph in 4.2 seconds and reach a top speed just shy of 190mph.
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So, another Mansory car, soon announced after the new Mansory Evora.

I think the interior is quite ugly, but the overall look is alright. What do you think?
 
Change out the orange to white and the interior is gorgeous in my opinion.

The only problem is that Mansory decided to to mod up the most useless BMW on the planet.
 
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For me, Mansory is the pinnacle of chintziness and should be prosecuted for crimes against the automotive world. Their hideous transformations of Range Rovers, BMWs, Aston Martins and Porsches must stop here and now. Even a Daewoo Matiz looks more expensive and elegant than any Mansory, including their... let's say... well, actually, they've committed so many atrocities against my eyes, that my mind struggles to pick one of the models. And this X6 M is no exception. It is completely devoid of any taste, with chintzy carbon here, there, everywhere, and I'd rather be seen in the Matiz than this. What the hell were they thinking when they got their hands on this Bavarian brute? :confused:
 
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Interior is a bit much, but the exterior isn't too bad, really.
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My thoughts exactly.

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For me, Mansory is the pinnacle of chintziness and should be prosecuted for crimes against the automotive world. Their hideous transformations of Range Rovers, BMWs, Aston Martins and Porsches must stop here and now. Even a Daewoo Matiz looks more expensive and elegant than any Mansory, including their... let's say... well, actually, they've committed so many atrocities against my eyes, that my mind struggles to pick one of the models. And this X6 M is no exception. It is completely devoid of any taste, with chintzy carbon here, there, everywhere, and I'd rather be seen in the Matiz than this. What the hell were they thinking when they got their hands on this Bavarian brute? :confused:
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Not all their cars are bad~

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I have to agree. That Evora is quite nice actually :)

But the X6 will still fit perfectly in a garage with this other Mansory work of art:
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Mansory is "Man, sorry (about your eyes)," in Canadian.
 
There's a silent 'about your eyes' in there somewhere.
 
sumbrownkid
Change out the orange to white and the interior is gorgeous in my opinion.

The only problem is that Mansory decided to to mod up the most useless BMW on the planet.
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Modded or not, if you can't find a use for a 555hp (or 670hp) 4WD BMW M-car.. then I can only assume you are a small novelty paper-weight, and therefore have no feet or hands with which to control a car in the first place.

The Mansory stuff looks like turd-sandwiches, but somebody is obviously buying them, or else they'd be out of business by now, wouldn't they?
 
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"Carbon feeber, ve need moar carbon feeber!"
-Kourosh Mansory, dimwit, Mansory CEO

I think their cars have a pretty faithful clientèle.
They're especially popular in Dubai. Taste? Taste in Dubai? :lol:
 
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MatskiMonk
Modded or not, if you can't find a use for a 555hp (or 670hp) 4WD BMW M-car.. then I can only assume you are a small novelty paper-weight, and therefore have no feet or hands with which to control a car in the first place.

The Mansory stuff looks like turd-sandwiches, but somebody is obviously buying them, or else they'd be out of business by now, wouldn't they?
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One use...Off roading. A car that was built off the premise that can go off road, should do it with no qualms.

Nice try with the paper weight though, really got me with that bro!
 
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Taste is absolutely subjective, but forgive me guys. Apart from the bare carbon One-77, all pictures posted on this site make me wanna vomit. That Phantom is hideous, the golden plated Veyron is Paris Hilton'ish and that Evora is infantile, :yuck: looks like it will be used to iron clothes rather than driven. Talk about unnecessarily big spoilers...

Honestly, they took sober and elegant cars, ruined them and then charged you for it. :odd:
 
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sumbrownkid
One use...Off roading. A car that was built off the premise that can go off road, should do it with no qualms.

Nice try with the paper weight though, really got me with that bro!
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Oh, I'd LOVE to see how quickly those 22" HP summer tires would get stuck in even the least bit of mud. Not to mention the lowered ground clearance vs the stock X6.

Throw that in a typical mud pit ((no getting 33" super swampers and cheating)) with a bone stock Jeep Wrangler, and see who gets further.

What IS your idea of off road, anyway? Because if you say gravel, anything can traverse that. SEe classic rallying.
 
I should think even a stock X6 would get trapped pretty quickly in even light off-roading, let alone a Mansory-blinged one. The X5/X6 range has never been capable of any more than very, very light off-road work. Simply wasn't designed for it.
 
sumbrownkid
One use...Off roading. A car that was built off the premise that can go off road, should do it with no qualms.

Nice try with the paper weight though, really got me with that bro!
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So...

.. you have 555hp, in a car that built off the premise of being a "high performance all wheel drive vehicle"..

... and the only use you can think of is to drive it into a muddy field with summer tires on, get stuck, cross your arms and complain? :odd: Huh, seems we have Jeremy Clarkson in our midst! I trust you have a similar distain for the likes of the Veyron, Gallardo, Aventador, Reventon, Murcielago, FF, 911 and R8, RS5 etc... all of which are pretty hopeless off-road?
 
MatskiMonk
So...

.. you have 555hp, in a car that built off the premise of being a "high performance all wheel drive vehicle"..

... and the only use you can think of is to drive it into a muddy field with summer tires on, get stuck, cross your arms and complain? :odd: Huh, seems we have Jeremy Clarkson in our midst! I trust you have a similar distain for the likes of the Veyron, Gallardo, Aventador, Reventon, Murcielago, FF, 911 and R8, RS5 etc... all of which are pretty hopeless off-road?
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Not quite the case though, the X6 is a SUV type vehicle, off road is the reason for it not being a 5 Touring. The cars you listed are not SUV's.

If you don't need any off road ability, why by a 4x4, raised vehicle? Save money, fuel and weight and get a car.

What I suspect is that people need an MPV, but don't want one. So they buy the next best thing, a SUV. If BMW where to create an MPV that wasn't a wet blanket mobile, they could be onto a winner.
 
The X6 fails pretty hard as an MPV too though as it only has five seats. An X5 has seven so that immediately becomes easier to justify (and it's not as hard on the eyes either).

Let's not get away from the real reason people buy them though, which is that they like the high driving position and that it's a fairly obvious statement of wealth. If you have a big BMW SUV people know you're doing fairly well. A 5-Series touring is an infinitely better car but it's less of a statement too.
 
homeforsummer
The X6 fails pretty hard as an MPV too though as it only has five seats. An X5 has seven so that immediately becomes easier to justify (and it's not as hard on the eyes either).

Let's not get away from the real reason people buy them though, which is that they like the high driving position and that it's a fairly obvious statement of wealth. If you have a big BMW SUV people know you're doing fairly well. A 5-Series touring is an infinitely better car but it's less of a statement too.
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But they can give an MPV a high driving position and make it expensive, without the fake off road pretensions. Actually, stretch a 5GT slightly and give it 7 seats, and viola, the X6 is redundant.
 
Mike0105
Not quite the case though, the X6 is a SUV type vehicle, off road is the reason for it not being a 5 Touring. The cars you listed are not SUV's.

If you don't need any off road ability, why by a 4x4, raised vehicle? Save money, fuel and weight and get a car.
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Seriously you think every rasied 4×4 vehicle on the road is bought by people that go off-road?

THE VAST MAJORITY OF BUYERS OF LUXURY 4×4's DO NOT BUY THEM TO USE THEM OFF ROAD! They do not buy them for their off-road capability, they buy them because they want a big, expensive presence on the road, or because maybe they just like the styling.

I'm also certain that BMW went to great pains to tell people that the vehicle is not an SUV, not even an SAV, but a Sports Activity Coupe... now, whether you buy into marketing buzz-acronyms or not is irrelevant... the fact is that BMW are not selling this as an off-roader.. if you choose to label it as such, then judge it as being pointless because it can't do it - well how is that different to me labelling the Aventador as a poor SUV? ...

Mike0105
What I suspect is that people need an MPV, but don't want one. So they buy the next best thing, a SUV. If BMW where to create an MPV that wasn't a wet blanket mobile, they could be onto a winner.
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X5 xDrive50i M-sport? 5GT xDrive50i M-sport?

homeforsummer
The X6 fails pretty hard as an MPV too though as it only has five seats. An X5 has seven so that immediately becomes easier to justify (and it's not as hard on the eyes either).
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Actually, IIRC I think it's only in the last 6 months the X6 was even made available as a 5 seater, prior to that it was only a 4 seater, so it would fail even harder at being an MPV.

homeforsummer
Let's not get away from the real reason people buy them though, which is that they like the high driving position and that it's a fairly obvious statement of wealth. If you have a big BMW SUV people know you're doing fairly well. A 5-Series touring is an infinitely better car but it's less of a statement too.
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This, I'm glad some people can understand this, even if they don't like the X6.

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Personally, I like the X6 a lot, and I'm not sold on the current F11 5 tourer, so if budget wasn't an issue and I had to choose between them, I'd have the X6.... but even having said that, I'm not one for pidgeon holeing my automotive needs. I can get my mountain bike behind the front seats in my 328i Coupe, and I can fit all of my camping gear including firewood in the boot... which for my needs makes a coupe as practical as my last car, which was a 5 tourer!

Also, for what it's worth, so long as you have suitable tyres the X6 it's not as bad off-road as some people seem to think it is. It's way more capable than an xDrive 3, 5 or 7 series would be off-road, but probably not on the same level as a Range Rover.
 
MatskiMonk
Seriously you think every rasied 4×4 vehicle on the road is bought by people that go off-road?

THE VAST MAJORITY OF BUYERS OF LUXURY 4×4's DO NOT BUY THEM TO USE THEM OFF ROAD! They do not buy them for their off-road capability, they buy them because they want a big, expensive presence on the road, or because maybe they just like the styling.

I'm also certain that BMW went to great pains to tell people that the vehicle is not an SUV, not even an SAV, but a Sports Activity Coupe... now, whether you buy into marketing buzz-acronyms or not is irrelevant... the fact is that BMW are not selling this as an off-roader.. if you choose to label it as such, then judge it as being pointless because it can't do it - well how is that different to me labelling the Aventador as a poor SUV? ...
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Don't be too hard on them, I think they understand all that as much as you do. Their point is that however BMW chooses to market it, it's still at its core an off-road vehicle, just one that happens to be utterly useless off road.

It's fairly obvious off-road ability isn't what people buy it for (if they did it'd quickly die off as it's not fit for purpose) but if you draw less blurry boundaries between classes of vehicle the X6 is still an "off-roader", an X-drive 5-Series - or an Aventador - is not.
 
homeforsummer
Don't be too hard on them, I think they understand all that as much as you do. Their point is that however BMW chooses to market it, it's still at its core an off-road vehicle, just one that happens to be utterly useless off road.

It's fairly obvious off-road ability isn't what people buy it for (if they did it'd quickly die off as it's not fit for purpose) but if you draw less blurry boundaries between classes of vehicle the X6 is still an "off-roader", an X-drive 5-Series - or an Aventador - is not.
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Sorry, I'm not trying to sound like this guy...

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but.. if the X6 isn't designed to be an off road vehicle, it isn't marketed as an off-road vehicle, it isn't used by people as an off-road vehicle and isn't very good at off-roading.. why.. ..... .... why must it be classed as an off-roader?

I'm sorry if I'm ranting, but the X6 comes in for so much stick and I don't think it's fair.. I've got zero problem if the X6 doesn't suit their needs or think it's ugly (especially if it's the Mansory version), but it seems to be the people that have got a problem with it use the "off-roading" card as an excuse to slag it off...and it's that narrow-mindedness that frustrates me.

FWIW, although I'm a huge BMW fan, short of buying a Dakar X3 CC,

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if I were buying an off-road vehicle I would buy this..

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Defender Twin cab Pick-up, then I'd fit winches, snorkel, raised suspension, nobblies, and under-armour.
 
MatskiMonk
I'm sorry if I'm ranting, but the X6 comes in for so much stick and I don't think it's fair.. I've got zero problem if the X6 doesn't suit their needs or think it's ugly (especially if it's the Mansory version), but it seems to be the people that have got a problem with it use the "off-roading" card as an excuse to slag it off...and it's that narrow-mindedness that frustrates me.
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This is fair enough. Though its lack of off-road ability is much less of a problem for me than its ugliness. And I don't think I'm alone in that.

But:

MatskiMonk
but.. if the X6 isn't designed to be an off road vehicle, it isn't marketed as an off-road vehicle, it isn't used by people as an off-road vehicle and isn't very good at off-roading.. why.. ..... .... why must it be classed as an off-roader?
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SUV, SAV, SAC etc etc: They're all just fancy niche marketing terms for off roader. The only reason the acronyms started appearing in the first place were that as the cars developed they became ever more useless at actually going off road. The only class of vehicles that genuinely isn't in the off-road bracket is crossovers, which everyone knows are standard cars jacked up a little and given "chunky" features.

Whether you dislike the stick the X6 gets for not being good off road or not, it's still an off-road vehicle. A rose by any other name.

Here's a good general clue:

Have a look in any car buyers guide. Where does the X6 appear? Certainly not in the coupe section.

Edit: The other clue. BMW's site. The very first picture visible on the X6 page. Doesn't appear to be parked "on road". So yes, even their marketing suggests it's an off-roader.

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