Is it Growing on You?

No surprise here but still uglier than sin to my eye, expect grandma to crawl out of it. It screams design wise as a car developed for the “aging” group of BMW owners. Having said that I am sure it will sell, although I will laugh to myself seeing anybody younger than 70 buying one.

It seems to be a more practical road going version of the X6.

And I give full marks to BMW for inventing the X6; at last an SUV that doesn’t try to mimic a Range Rover – the ultimate in luxury SUVs.

But then the more you think about the 5er GT; you start to wonder if BMW is just trying to mimic a Citroen. Either the C6 or C5.

I’m a wagon fan too (I just took my wagon to the track yesterday, and had no trouble keeping up with the rest of the e90 crowd). However, the GT5 just looks big and heavy to me. The spring compression just makes that worse in my eye. Its not a track car, and given the target audience’s age, I don’t think they are going to want a lowered track car either.

All of which are aimed heavily at the social security group of drivers. Guess part of my problem is that the X6 really doesn’t do anything for me either.