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Originally Posted by imc43
something tells me this test drive didn’t involve measuring lateral g’s on a twisty canyon road. anything can feel sharp until you drive it back to back with an m2 or something similar.
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It's not going to beat an M2 on a back road. It's not meant to. It's for someone that really wants an M2, but needs to haul kids or sports equipment or drive in the snow on a dirt road periodically.
I own an '08 335i w/ZSP and a Mach-E GTPE, both arguably very good handling cars. A while back, I rented a '24 X5 40i 2wd for a trip around national parks out west in Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado. I thought that X5 handled amazingly well for how big it is and how much it is engineered for the comfort of a normal soccer mom. It didn't even have the M sport package.
Everything is relative. I'm sure the X3 M50 handling rips compared to almost every crossover out there and is probably better than most sports sedans on the market. Stop wanting normal vehicles to be race cars. 98% of buyers don't want a ridiculously stiff suspension on a small SUV.