The New BMW X3 could be perfect, BUT…!

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This is the new !

It's the fourth generation of 's most popular SUV, however does the most recent iteration offer enough to sway you towards rival automobiles like the Mercedes GLC? Let's take a better look.

In regards to the style, the look of current BMWs has been pretty dissentious, and it's no various with the brand-new ! However, we believe it looks pretty smart, and the M50 edition we have here has a really imposing search the roadway. At the front, there's a large grille, paired with an aggressive front bumper which is flanked by a set of real vents. The imprint on the bonnet is likewise smart and advises us of the M4. Along the side black roofing bars and M Sport side mirrors, while at the back there's a set of perfectly created tail lights coupled with quad tailpipes.

On the within, the X3 has a quite minimalist style. There's a large curved screen that houses the dials and infotainment system, and the seats are likewise quite comfortable. However, the infotainment system can be a bit convoluted at times, especially when all performance is housed within it – you will not discover any physical buttons here! What's more, while some areas of the cabin are great to touch, we saw quite a few places covered in scratchy, cheap-feeling plastic.

There are a couple of engine choices readily available. There's a 2-litre diesel with 197hp and a 2-litre turbo gas with 208hp. The plug-in hybrid edition uses the exact same 2-litre turbo petrol engine coupled with an electric motor to create 299hp, while the range-topping M50 is powered by a 3-litre straight-six turbo to produce 398hp.

In regards to cost, the X3 starts at around ₤ 48,000, rising to around ₤ 67,000 for the range-topping M50. The thing is, it's possible to include a load of options – the automobile we have here costs around ₤ 77,000! So is it worth it? Stick to Mat and see for yourself!

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Style
02:42 Interior
05:24 Price
07:17 Infotainment
09:22 Storage
10:27 Boot
11:20 Annoying Features
13:29 Cool Functions
15:22 Engines
16:09 0-60mph
16:49 Back Road Driving
17:58 Motorway Driving
18:42 Town Driving
20:00 Verdict

Comments

88 responses to “The New BMW X3 could be perfect, BUT…!”

  1. @Prasoon_ingle Avatar
    @Prasoon_ingle

    I want to know what the hell bmw designers are smoking 🚬

    1. @Tommytumee Avatar
      @Tommytumee

      The designers are smoking an opium supplied by China. Jokes aside, BMW designs cars for the Chinese customers.

    2. @S.1-1-1-1-I Avatar
      @S.1-1-1-1-I

      Meth.

    3. @somerandomfella Avatar
      @somerandomfella

      C rack

    4. @Msr.shaikh482 Avatar
      @Msr.shaikh482

      Oye Kiddo of Pogo TV .. this is actually nice design and looks much better than the previous generation .. don’t care about your opinion.. ok 🤫

  2. @lukeallen1146 Avatar
    @lukeallen1146

    This is a dark time for BMW design

    1. @alexlapo4986 Avatar
      @alexlapo4986

      its marketing everybody will buy used bmws then bmw will make great design again and boom

    2. @frostyyy6823 Avatar
      @frostyyy6823

      @@alexlapo4986why not just make it great rn and make the money rn?

    3. @Msr.shaikh482 Avatar
      @Msr.shaikh482

      BMW : First he will hate and later he will love
      This is nice design 🔥

    4. @shahyawar3709 Avatar
      @shahyawar3709

      We have been saying it for past 6 years now

    5. @lukeallen1146 Avatar
      @lukeallen1146

      @ now for me. I likes the G80 from the start, the grill never bothered me. But every car after that has been odd looking to me. I like the X5 and X7 and that’s pretty much it

  3. @jimmywan87 Avatar
    @jimmywan87

    Seems they’ve fired the whole interior design team 🤔🤔

    1. @Astke Avatar
      @Astke

      I nees to sit in to to truly judge it. But it does look weird on camera.

    2. @tominatorxx Avatar
      @tominatorxx

      They presumably already fired everyone in the exterior design department, judging by the designs over the last couple of years. So they probably are now going for the interior design team…

  4. @yissibiiyte Avatar
    @yissibiiyte

    I love when my 80k “premium” car has more plastic inside than a Suzuki Swift

    1. @robgaskell2391 Avatar
      @robgaskell2391

      Dacias have nicer materials

    2. @robertrse Avatar
      @robertrse

      My 2005 Vw Touran has same quality its crazy

    3. @bafanamachika5495 Avatar
      @bafanamachika5495

      ​@@robertrseolder Vw models have less plastic than this

      Cc, scirocco, passat

    4. @Astke Avatar
      @Astke

      Bro has never sat in a swift

    5. @yissibiiyte Avatar
      @yissibiiyte

      @@Astke yes I have (the Swift isn’t exactly a rare car). Both the Swift and the X3 interiors are 92% hard plastic. But unlike the BMW, the Swift can afford to give you some real controls and buttons.

  5. @carwow Avatar
    @carwow

    Change your car with Carwow: https://bit.ly/-Change-Your-Car-0912

    1. @levandogonadze461 Avatar
      @levandogonadze461

      I love you

    2. @levandogonadze461 Avatar
      @levandogonadze461

      Pls schad aut mi

    3. @stubbietubbie Avatar
      @stubbietubbie

      POV mode sucks hard.

    4. @user-lq5nh1hm1x Avatar
      @user-lq5nh1hm1x

      Hey Mat! Or anyone managing carwow.. can you guys review the new Lexus LBX? It’s Lexus’s new subcompact luxury car.. I hope for you guys to check it out!

    5. @purwantiallan5089 Avatar
      @purwantiallan5089

      BMW X3 M50 costed as expensive as 1999 Viper GTS.

  6. @Mr.ICan1 Avatar
    @Mr.ICan1

    I personally like the previous generation X3 more…

    1. @rdsyafriyar Avatar
      @rdsyafriyar

      Even the first gen X3 looks a tad better as well than this new one, although it’s not saying much considering the amount of plastics used on the lower areas of the exterior in effort to give it a more rugged look, and that the ride would predictably feel like being on a Bactrian camel that’s been high at soft drinks.

    2. @immortal_editz1774 Avatar
      @immortal_editz1774

      Only a braindead would like this one more bruh

    3. @funwithhenryyt Avatar
      @funwithhenryyt

      @Mr.ICan1 Doesn’t everyone??

    4. @Flatsixfiesta Avatar
      @Flatsixfiesta

      Literally everyone with any sort of good taste agrees.

  7. @tomandersson5089 Avatar
    @tomandersson5089

    the car prices now is just out of this world… they are ridiculous!!!! stupid expensive!

    1. @robertrse Avatar
      @robertrse

      So true, this car should be 30-40k max

    2. @tomandersson5089 Avatar
      @tomandersson5089

      @@robertrse yea not even that.. its not even made in germany… and have all the components imported… its not even a real bmw… all plastic and made out of crap material…. in my mind its a 20-25k car if that even?!

    3. @Astke Avatar
      @Astke

      ​@@robertrse even a peugeot 308 is like 45k in a good spec nowadays. Prices are high in general.

    4. @tomandersson5089 Avatar
      @tomandersson5089

      @@Astke yea i have seen the prices on all cars they are just stupid! look at KIA peoples car they said! it will be a car everyone can buy! the prices just skyrocket… and KIA is not a good car i know i owned 3 of em…. my last one was a KIA optima sportswagon.. 2016 i owned it in 2019 i had it for 6 month… then the keys stopped communicate with the car so i could not start it… the tow company came and said KIA sigh!!! i was like what about them .. they are crap im like do you get alot of KIA’s to tow.. like 20 every week… and the engines are pure crap they said… and i’ve seen it on youtube to… KIA dealers have a storage of KIA engines because they are so bad!

    5. @Lemingtona-x5g Avatar
      @Lemingtona-x5g

      Suzuki swift is good value

  8. @Ridic08 Avatar
    @Ridic08

    Damn the cost cutting is insane here

    1. @rdsyafriyar Avatar
      @rdsyafriyar

      Everything that would make the men who made American cars in the noughties blush. The Germans are surely becoming the new Americans that Clarkson has made fun of.

    2. @hi-fidude6670 Avatar
      @hi-fidude6670

      ​@@rdsyafriyarYeah but let’s be honest at least the germans have the best tech and don’t need a semi engine to make decent power

    3. @richardlabeja Avatar
      @richardlabeja

      All European car brands are cost cutting.

    4. @Lemingtona-x5g Avatar
      @Lemingtona-x5g

      Germans cost cutting heavy

    5. @yissibiiyte Avatar
      @yissibiiyte

      @@hi-fidude6670 in what way do German cars have the best tech?
      And I wouldn’t mock American engines when their V8’s make pretty much double the power of any German V8.

  9. @Blackowl2202 Avatar
    @Blackowl2202

    77k of plastics, maybe they want us to 3D print our own interior🤣

    1. @JJVernig Avatar
      @JJVernig

      They already did …

    2. @Astke Avatar
      @Astke

      All cars are plastic now. Some just better plastic than others.

    3. @rdsyafriyar Avatar
      @rdsyafriyar

      More plastic than every Lego set available today.

    4. @TonyStark-wr7ob Avatar
      @TonyStark-wr7ob

      ​​​@@Astkehave you not been in a Mercedes/Lexus? Even lincoln has better quality than the x3.

    5. @Lemingtona-x5g Avatar
      @Lemingtona-x5g

      @@Astke bmw down graded its plastics to skoda level

  10. @JonLondrezos Avatar
    @JonLondrezos

    Why is it that car manufacturer simply DON’T listen to what people want,??? We want knobs for temperature and volume settings. And we don’t want knobs designing the usability ergonomics 😉

    1. @kristoffer3000 Avatar
      @kristoffer3000

      Yeah but they want higher profits so…. Shame about those buttons and knobs.

    2. @mrnicktoyou Avatar
      @mrnicktoyou

      Knobs cost more money.

    3. @HABO2210 Avatar
      @HABO2210

      ​@@mrnicktoyou dem poor bastards. Shall we open a charity account for them? 😢

    4. @JonLondrezos Avatar
      @JonLondrezos

      If I’m going to pay 70k for a car I want knobs. I would even pay 100 quid extra for knobs, but they don’t give you that option

    5. @Astke Avatar
      @Astke

      Chinese people do not care about that, so car manufacturers also do not care. In china buttons and knobs = old fashioned and not forward thinking.

  11. @robdavis16 Avatar
    @robdavis16

    This is such a backwards step compared to the old one!

    1. @coolmendotdot2 Avatar
      @coolmendotdot2

      Wouldn’t be the first

  12. @ahoymateeez Avatar
    @ahoymateeez

    German car industry dying with each car release.

    1. @bafanamachika5495 Avatar
      @bafanamachika5495

      Bro… Benz Vw Audi Bmw every new car is worse than the gen it replaces nowadays and its sad

    2. @Astke Avatar
      @Astke

      ​@@bafanamachika5495it is because people who loved the old bmw are not the market anymore

    3. @richardlabeja Avatar
      @richardlabeja

      Asia car brands are waiting in the wings to take over.

    4. @Lemingtona-x5g Avatar
      @Lemingtona-x5g

      Toyota taking over them

    5. @Johnny91832 Avatar
      @Johnny91832

      ​@@Lemingtona-x5g nice bait

  13. @ridgefrost Avatar
    @ridgefrost

    Brand new cars having issues mid review is becoming an unwelcome trend

    1. @WetPig Avatar
      @WetPig

      As someone working for one of these companies – “Ah whatever, we will OTA update it to fix the issue” 😀

  14. @Foiiiii1 Avatar
    @Foiiiii1

    They cannot be serious with that interior quality, especially the door handles. They selected the cheapest plasics available for a car that costs over 67k.

    1. @akj2387 Avatar
      @akj2387

      Exactly! It’s grey plastics! Cheap cars from the 80’s had grey door handles.

    2. @Astke Avatar
      @Astke

      They probably making their ICE cars bad so their EVs sell more. The X3 will not have an EV variant after all.

    3. @javak810i Avatar
      @javak810i

      @@Astke It will have. There is gonna be an electric iX3 but build on a new Neue Klasse platform.

    4. @metropcs1099official Avatar
      @metropcs1099official

      Suzuki might feel more premium

    5. @Bitcoin_King-kn8tr Avatar
      @Bitcoin_King-kn8tr

      🤮

  15. @rickietee108 Avatar
    @rickietee108

    Imagine paying 80k to have your high beams hidden behind a menu… 🤦‍♂️

    1. @Jake-em8sp Avatar
      @Jake-em8sp

      Yeah but the highbeams are automatic so it’s not horrible

    2. @tudorg22 Avatar
      @tudorg22

      ​@@Jake-em8spit is, automatic high beams suck and always turn on when they shouldn’t

    3. @falxnecis Avatar
      @falxnecis

      Hidden behind a screen that malfunctions

  16. @Chris-yg3nj Avatar
    @Chris-yg3nj

    £80k for such a low quality cabin, this will depreciate like a rock and end up £40k in a few years. £80k gets you an X5 50e…

    1. @Lanmiami Avatar
      @Lanmiami

      Few years… this car next year you will be able to find for half of the price…

  17. @tonim5863 Avatar
    @tonim5863

    If prices continue at this pace, I will keep using my 2010 car until it dies, and then I will probably buy a donkey

    1. @tusiimebless1530 Avatar
      @tusiimebless1530

      And if you buy a male and female donkey, then you have a new model donkey every few years 😂

    2. @troop73oo Avatar
      @troop73oo

      Have you seen new car sales, this is what people are doing.

  18. @cuprashoe Avatar
    @cuprashoe

    Ahhh yes a “premium” 80k car where a lot of the plastic in the interior looks like it’s made from recycled melted down wheelie bins

    1. @Ryosuke-12 Avatar
      @Ryosuke-12

      For 100k dollar,i can get 1 gt86,1 model 3,1 miata,and s superbike 😂

    2. @John2751 Avatar
      @John2751

      Oh great point
      We’ll make sure to tell you that it’s 100% recycled plastic and charge for it

    3. @sticc3978 Avatar
      @sticc3978

      in parts it looks like my 15000€ Mitsubishi haha

  19. @bodrulm1 Avatar
    @bodrulm1

    Interior is shockingly low rent. And you can’t do basic things like high beam and cruise control distance without going through multiple screen menus? What a fail

    1. @bojned Avatar
      @bojned

      It’s misleading… High beam is still on the stock, option shown on the video is for AUTO high beams… Still dumb to be buried in a menu, but not something that’s frequently used.

  20. @lbnewell23 Avatar
    @lbnewell23

    The quality of this car is shocking, it’s happening to all modern cars though and I don’t understand why no one’s making more of a fuss about it. Since when did 80k give you a budget interior. My 11 year old V40 has much nicer materials than this car and it did not cost nearly 80k when it was new

    1. @MigV40 Avatar
      @MigV40

      I was going to say! I have a 2013 V40, and only the lower part of the doors are scratchy plastic, which is to be expected of a car of that price! The rest of the interior has high-quality soft-touch plastics, metal, and leather.

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