My Take After Seeing & Driving the 2025 X3 M50 (G45) IRL!

Ravenous666 · 02-27-2025, 12:17 PM

Strange. Im 1,98m tall and weigh 100kg. Absolutely no problem with the seat. Very comfortable. Shoe size US13 and never ever mixed gas and brake.

Maybe you are just trolling or you need to better control your feet.

Also the heating, defrosting and overall AC is fine. No problems at all. Had -12°C last week and car was fine.

EWL5 · 02-27-2025, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Musashi

OK so I test drove the G45 X3, it is not Nissan crap, it is not cheap plastics, that one was loaded, higher end plastics but...then I went for another hour driving a Cayenne. and... Base Cayenne bludgeoned the new X3. Any Cayenne. interior execution feel comfort, bludgeon it. V6 may not be as smooth as the B58, (and the ZF V6 are not optimized) but, in comfort, all things equal, where that difference does no matter in traffic, Cayenne to BMW felt to me like BMW to entry Kia.

G45, in comfort, cold roads, was unforgivingly sporty, as in a tuned up sporty truck. The Cayenne felt like a bigger M Performance/M wrapped around you. Because of a higher position inside the G45, it feels worse than a 340i M3 M4 M5 etc. No comparison, no relationship. The higher you are the more any oscillations feel esp in the cold. So not enough dampened.

Why are you comparing the G45 to the Cayenne? It competes w/the Macan!

https://www.edmunds.com/car-comparis...veh2=402032549

TurtleBoy · 02-27-2025, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Ravenous666

Strange. Im 1,98m tall and weigh 100kg. Absolutely no problem with the seat. Very comfortable. Shoe size US13 and never ever mixed gas and brake.

Maybe you are just trolling or you need to better control your feet.

Also the heating, defrosting and overall AC is fine. No problems at all. Had -12°C last week and car was fine.

He posted some similar, perhaps the same, stuff in the G05 forum. Not sure what his motivation it but it doesn't seem to be getting much traction.

arunr55 · 02-27-2025, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Musashi

I just turned down an incredible 340 km X3 M50 demo offer at my local dealership, and they tried everything to convince me.

1st, marginal more room 2nd row, 2" more than the G05 X5. Cayenne and just about any other SUV has 5" more than the X5!

2. Worse, the rear door now lacks the protective arch, and the door slit sits above the tire. US owners that returned their new X3 M05, days in, mentioned water getting in. Yes, winter driven demo had salt and ice forming through there moving up to the seal. That corner will be sanded and rusted cannot really be ppf. Bad bad bad oversight. Quite frankly, dumb, dumb dumb.

3, the SEAT IS TOO NARROW. At my limit and am below average height and runner cycling fit. The open bolster parts have me at the limit- not as bad as the 2 GrandCoupe, but concerningly smaller than my F30 and any prev gen X3 X5. Digging around with well connected people, apparently the interior was indeed designed with the Asian market in mind (make the interior more snug around them), and for the Asian submarket outside Asia. Bottom line: if you are 5'11 and taller, regular swimmer/runner or simply fat YOU WILL NOT FIT IN THE X3 G45 FRONT SEATS. Not comfortably.

4. The air vents are designed to point inside, so US reports of poor cabin cooling and esp rain humidity window mist, must be spot on. In the cold, the vents could not warm the DRV PX windows.

5. The distance between gas and brake pedals is 1" narrower than previous generations and the brake pedal sits a bit further out. Now the 2 grand coupe is so bad that I got regulators [...]

What of load of trash

Sportstick · 02-27-2025, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Musashi

Go drive the 2 series Grand Coupe, 2 doors

The Gran Coupe is 4 doors. The Coupe is 2 doors. Which are you intending to reference? My feet and I fit easily into my 2 door 2 Series Coupe at 6'2", 195lbs.

JoeyO · 02-27-2025, 08:20 PM

I had trouble reading some of those sentences, and English is my first language.

formerpiced · 02-28-2025, 01:17 AM

Saying this as someone who is thinking about buying one. The whole front end looks too blunt to my eyes. The face with lighter colors is off-putting. The hood needs some character lines, or curves, or both.

Good to see pics on the first page with Tanzanite and Amber - if I pop for it, that's the color combo. Interesting discussion.

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Ravenous666 Major 1233 Rep 1,386 Posts Drives: 2025 BMW X3 M50 & 2024 BMW X3 Join Date: Jan 2020 Location: Up North iTrader: (0)	Strange. Im 1,98m tall and weigh 100kg. Absolutely no problem with the seat. Very comfortable. Shoe size US13 and never ever mixed gas and brake. Maybe you are just trolling or you need to better control your feet. Also the heating, defrosting and overall AC is fine. No problems at all. Had -12°C last week and car was fine. __________________ List of M-Performance parts for X3 G45 https://g45.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh...3&postcount=60 Last edited by Ravenous666; 02-27-2025 at 12:26 PM..
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JoeyO Captain 318 Rep 946 Posts Drives: silver car Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: USA iTrader: (0)	I had trouble reading some of those sentences, and English is my first language.
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formerpiced Enlisted Member 32 Rep 41 Posts Drives: BMW G80 M3 Join Date: Jul 2024 Location: Southeastern PA iTrader: (0)	Saying this as someone who is thinking about buying one. The whole front end looks too blunt to my eyes. The face with lighter colors is off-putting. The hood needs some character lines, or curves, or both. Good to see pics on the first page with Tanzanite and Amber - if I pop for it, that's the color combo. Interesting discussion.
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