Subtlety was not on the agenda when BMW tuned up its 503-hp compact SUV for maximum performance.
If you want to know just how adept high-performance SUVs have become at bending the laws of physics, check out thetest numbers. It would be easy to assume that they were produced by anything but a tall shoebox of a car. A high-end sports car, maybe? A thundering muscle car? A powerful sports sedan? A 60-mph time of 3.2 seconds, a quarter-mile of 11.5 seconds at 119 mph, and a 0.96-g fling around our skidpad are strong stats for any vehicle regardless of body style.
The fitness program they put it through was rigorous, comprising chassis reinforcements; a profoundly stiffer suspension tune; and fat, sticky summer rubber. And, of course, the patient received a heart transplant in the form of the then-new S58 twin-turbo 3.0-liter inline-six for its 2020 M debut. Shared with the M3, M4, and X4 M SUV, the engine boosted underhood muscle to 473 horses for the X3 M and 503 for the cherry-on-top Competition model.
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