X3 Off Road Experience

Got back from skiing to find an invite from Wheatly Hall (Doncaster) for the day @ Rockingham and having bought the car from them, thought the £75 asking price wasn't bad for breakfast, coach, lunch and a day's dirty fun with a BMW 'hostess' no doubt, so imagine my surprise when they rang back to say it was gratis - as I'm such an 'enthusiastic' X3 customer (thank god they've rembered we have a 3.0d twin turbo on order)!  How please am I.

So I'll be taking lots of piccies next Friday when I'm there and may even send 1 or 2 to a certain Jeremy (nice hair mate) Clarkson if the car does manage to get out of the car park

Will post my thoughts when I get back.

Having just got back from NY/NJ I think that the X3 is selling very well over there and as that's probably the #1 market for Premium SAV's (a sector of 1 I think?).  

I'd be surprised if the TT doesn't make the X3.  I'd also be disappointed, but not suicidal to get the single turbo unit. 

I don't follow the logic though, putting the TT in the 5 series, which doesn't really command a price premium, before the X's, which clearly have that little bit of Kudos (certainly in the USA) at the moment which will.

I'll be sure to ask a BMW GB representative the question though.

BTW John, got your X8 on order yet?

X8 = stretched X5, with quasi Hummer look about it (to me).  Probably another photoshop job I've seen somewhere.

Well, what a great car!  The course was very wet & slimy, the car was a 3.0 Sport (Auto) on standard tyres at standard pressures and it never struggled anywhere.

Bryn came with me and also got the same impression, so very capable and made to look so easy, and he's an Army off road driving instructor!  Thanks to Bryn for the pics on the link below.

http://www.zroadster.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4306

The 3.0 diesel X3 will be the single turbo as it's deemed that the TT is too thirsty for a 4x4 application, which obviously includes the X5 (I was told)!