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Originally Posted by bjcarls
Without the $7,500, I’m buying my wife the X3M that’s in stock at the local dealership.
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I hope your wife likes a really flinty ride, the X3M is not comfortable and doesn’t float over the road like the iX does. In other words, two such completely different vehicles as to make cross shopping irrelevant.
For ex, I have an X3 3.5 M Sport with EDC. It is extremely comfortable in Comfort mode, and reasonably sporty in Sport. Based on that, I thought I wanted to replace it with an M Sport 5 series, but when I drove that one, I realized it wasn’t for me. Felt like a bigger even more refined car, with imprecise steering, slower steering which gave it a more limo-like feel, and in the end no better comfort at one end of the scale, nor better sportiness at the other end. So I kept the X3 in the end.
The iX in my view is the next gen “5 series” from BMW. Superlative cruiser with a modern interior. If you aren’t in that market, don’t look at one. It won’t drive like anything smaller from the BMW range.