[Closed] Is there a more pointless car than the BMW X6?

The X1?

porsche cayenne?

I feel a pattern forming here.

There is only one reason....

....to make money from people who are to bloody awkward to buy any other vehicle that BMW make! 😆

It is a daft car in my opinion 🙄

Well, I can sort of see a niche for the X1, but the X6 is plain crazy. A coupe/SUV hybrid?

The new Mini Coupe has to be up there too.

Both fugly cars.

X1, X3, X5, X6, all totally pointless cars 😆

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They are quite stupendously ugly.

G-Wizz

As a mate of mine says..... "just like a Focus on Steroids"

They do an M-version too <fx> Facepalm </fx>

Porsche Cayenne Turbo is the car that proves the Germans have a sense of humour..... seriously good fun, 2+ tonnes of metal should not move that quickly short of falling off a cliff !

G-Wizz is the only thing that comes close in the pointlessness stakes.
[EDIT] Beaten to it[EDIT] Any journey with a car that can't go more than 20miles (remember you have to get back too!) with no luggage space must be better by bike.

Porsche Cayenne Turbo is the car that proves the Germans have a sense of humour..... seriously good fun, 2+ tonnes of metal should not move that quickly short of falling off a cliff !

i quite like the X6, looks like a storm trooper.

The X6 is a proper ****erwagon for sure.

C'mon - this is every single last bit as ugly.

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Theres loads more of these too!

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Probably better at charging accross deserts than picking it's way through a ofrrest mind.

Take a decent, modern looking car
Jack it up
Make it eat lard for a few months

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have you seen the 5 series GT?

that is one wierd car...

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There's this

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Which seems to have managed to hit those few branches on the ugly tree that even the X6 missed.

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5 series seems similar-ish to the Merc R 350. Not exactly hateful, just really really weird and specific.
Can't decide if it's totally pointless or in fact very useful for the really specific role of a big, sort of estate, sort of soft - roader, which is also incredibly luxurious and fast. Odd.

I don't know really... The Austin Ambassador always struck me as pretty pointless. Take a genuinely shit car and make a luxury version, basically spraypainting a turd silver and dousing it in cheap aftershave. Still a turd, just a turd for people that wanted the impression of something expensive.

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At least you could argue that the X6 is useful for ... Nope. Not really got a good answer to that.

First time I've seen that Mini Cooper...........yuck.

What was once a great design (the original Mini) now trashed by the Germans 😉

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Ever notice these "pointless" or "stupid" car threads are always about cars the OP and subsequent posters can't afford?

Nissan Juke i gag everytime i see one of the pointless pieces of p1sh.

randomjeremy - Member
Ever notice these "pointless" or "stupid" car threads are always about cars the OP and subsequent posters can't afford?

I'll have you know I can easily afford an Austin Ambassador

Ever notice these "pointless" or "stupid" car threads are always about cars the OP and subsequent posters can't afford?

Who says we can't afford them (or already own one of the cars posted already...)

@randomjeremy - that's one hell of an assumption sir.

@thepurist - maybe, but I'd be willing to wager a pretty penny it's true 😉

Take an MX5, remove everything good about it, whilst working hard to keep the bad bits, and what do pu have? A Suzuki X90
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Ever notice these "pointless" or "stupid" car threads are always about cars the OP and subsequent posters can't afford?

Maybe, but at least give us filthy proles something to aspire to.

The Austin Ambassador always struck me as pretty pointless.

If you're going there, then what about the Allegro VdP?

Anybody want a bet that random owns an X6 (because he likes to show everybody he can afford it - even though it's actually on HP which he's struggling to meet the payments for).

If you could afford and did own one, would you admit to owning any of the above?

OK not a production model but still pretty pointless -

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@randomjeremy - OK, a quick search finds X6s starting at 25-26K. I'd wager there's a good few of us on this thread who could afford that if we chose to.. if we lost all sense of taste and decency that is.

It's much cheaper to get a replacement dick than an X6!

randomjeremy - Member

Ever notice these "pointless" or "stupid" car threads are always about cars the OP and subsequent posters can't afford?

As the 6th Duke of Westminster, I'll have to respectfully disagree 😉

randomjeremy - Member
Ever notice these "pointless" or "stupid" car threads are always about cars the OP and subsequent posters can't afford?

Ever notice these "pointless" or "stupid" car threads are always about cars the OP and subsequent posters can't afford?

I could afford the Mini I posted, no problem. We have a newish car right now, and could buy one of those no worries.
Reasons why we don't:
a) It's pig ugly
b) It's too small, we have an estate
c) I'd rather have a used car and let someone else pay the depreciation
d) If I was going to spend out on a new car at that price, it would be Italian, most likely.
e) I'd rather have a car, a decent scooter, and a Ducati in the garage like I have now, thankyouverymuch!
f) Have I already said it's PIG UGLY?

So that's peed on your strawberries!
😛

Whats the point in a Bimota then ?

the Merc R 350.

My first thought was "I wouldn't be seen dead in that," but looking at it there's every chance that I might be at some point.

So it looks like Lamborgini and Dutton used the same mold designer.

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So it looks like Lamborgini and Dutton used the same mold designer.

That's just the same colour.

FYI, a Lamnbourghini LM002 doesn't need any point to it. It just [b]IS[/b]!

those beamers aren't pointless, they are specificly designed to transport the over inflated egos of the people who drive them, so therefore the cars are also over inflated...

theres not much point to it in the UK, but in the US, its a high-seated, quiet, comfortable car, with good performance and economy. its made on the x5 platform so didn't cost BMW a lot to engineer. They make ~50,000 of them a year, so to a lot of people they're a decent enough choice

i'm all for choice. The average x6 owner probably thinks its pointless the number of near-identical steel frames you can buy. There's a lot more difference between a x5 and an x6 than between a 456 and a 456 summer season

There's a new housing estate in our town where the higher end properties have large pillars each side of the front door. Pointless, fugly and very out of place. Most of these properties have the cars shown above on the driveway.

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That there's a hearse, right?

I'd have one of the new X3's - I know someone with one and it's a good car - not far off 50mpg, 4WD, 550L boot, and I think it looks fine. Wouldn't have an X6 though 🙂

I find the X6 a damn sight more attractive than the bloody KIA SOUL. But there was a thread the other week with everyone drooling over Kia Souls. So maybe I should just go away...

My dad's just bought one of the mini coupes, I am not allowed to say nasty things about them any more as he gets rather upset (but I do think that they're a pig ugly car). I wouldn't say that they're pointless though, my dad and step mum like the way it looks, and now that my brother has grown up they don't need rear seats anymore, besides it's their money.

I'll personaly reserve judgement until I've driven it, which won't be until after it's fully run in 😈

Liar! No one could possibly drool over this.
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No idea if it has some functional virtues but if anyone likes them it's certainly not for the looks.

There bloody was! You search! I was the only one who said they are ugly!
My 9 year old says they make him feel physically sick. True!

i dont think it has anything at all to do with affordability, otherwise you would get the same complaints about other expensive cars, astons, 911's etc.

It's just that vehicles like the X6 are examples of genuinely pointless design...

it is not more economical/safer/faster/comfier/parkable than a posh 5 or 7 series of same or greater value (if you must compare, compare with other cars from the same brand)

and it also is totally not about being able to go off-road.

For the record no, I couldn't afford one, I go wobbly kneed at the idea of spending more than 3K on a car, I have plenty of love for other expensive cars, just not the pointless ones.

Audi A5 - why does it exist?

Pretty but pointless.

In fact with kids and bikes I now see anything other than estates or SUV type things as pointless. The critical factor for me now is - can you fit doors in it, house internal doors? Yes then ok but no means they're pointless.

Ever noticed how those who wish to defend the motor industry's more idiosyncratic products always try to employ the "politics of envy" argument?

@amedias but that's not right - an x6m is quicker round a track than most 911s or Astons, and has a nice high seating position for good visibility, plenty of ground clearance and 4wd for when the conditions are poor. A Cayenne Turbo is quicker round a track than a Lotus Exige but you could still get 5 adults and a couple of dogs in the boot.

Maybe the reason people dislike these types of car is because of what they represent - conspicuous consumption and a brash display of wealth - something that doesn't sit well within the British psyche because it reminds people of their own status? 🙂

Audi A5 - why does it exist?

I don't see the point of the 3 door one but the 5 door one makes sense - a grown up TT for people with children.

like an a4 then? its just as pointless as the x6 (in that, its a swoopy\slightly less practical version of an existing car) - but then the same goes for all coupes.

@randomjerry : Those laps times are a pointless comparison, those cars are not even similar.
In a short circuit sprint (like a cyclocross race for cars I suppose) then the Lotus would cack all over the blinging 4*4's you mention.

A Cayenne Turbo is quicker round a track than a Lotus Exige

Which track exactly? Nurburgring perhaps but it wouldn't at somewhere like Cadwell Park. Having driven an Exige (at Brands Hatch) I would say it would take a very good road car to beat it on most tracks really - I would be surprised if a Cayenne would get close.

"Maybe the reason people dislike these types of car is because of what they represent - conspicuous consumption and a brash display of wealth"
no an Audi R8 represents conspicuous consumption and a brash display of wealth and that is it's point. The BMW x6 is just an ugly waste of cash. The partners where i work have one of each , the Audi driver gets bitched about for waisting cash on a depreciating asset owning a car that he will never get to drive the way it's designed to be driven etc. The BMW owners car is never discussed unless it's blocking someone in the small car park.

🙄 Yes quite, the point being that something like a Cayenne (and perhaps to a lesser extent an X6) can go very fast round a track [i]and also[/i] carry you and your luggage across continents in comfort [i]and also[/i] fit a bike or a dog in the boot. So, not really pointless.

like an a4 then? its just as pointless as the x6 (in that, its a swoopy\slightly less practical version of an existing car) - but then the same goes for all coupes.

But the difference (IMO) between the pointless BMW and the pointless Audi is that at least the Audi looks beautiful.

The 5 series GT is the clear winner - first time I saw one on the road I just shouted "WTF is that?"

So fugly.

Afford one, no I couldn't. Drive one, no I wouldn't.

something that doesn't sit well within the British psyche because it reminds people of their own status?

So what does your X6 say about your status, random? I'm struggling here due to not seeing cars as status symbols.

yes but so can my Mondeo ST estate : and that does not get peoples backs up.

I doooo like the look of that four door Porsche, I'm a little embarrassed to admit... 😳

Yes quite, the point being that something like a Cayenne (and perhaps to a lesser extent an X6) can go very fast round a track and also carry you and your luggage across continents in comfort and also fit a bike or a dog in the boot. So, not really pointless.

A car with a USP could be forgiven if it had that USP through requirement (ie, it had to look like that to fulfil it's design requirements). But the BMW does the same as other cars but look awful to boot.

Lets move onto a Passatt CC, why?

Not my cup of tea but hardly pointless. Goes from a to b reliably and comfortably I'm sure which is what a cars supposed to do.

Regarding the porsche Panamera, how is that pointless? It's about the most practical car Porsche make. Ugly, maybe but I like it a lot.

[i]Who says we can't afford them (or already own one of the cars posted already...)[/i]

But you can't though can you 😀

[i]due to not seeing cars as status symbols.[/i]

Nobody does, do they?

But the difference (IMO) between the pointless BMW and the pointless Audi is that at least the Audi looks beautiful.

I'd say the Audi looks rather plain. Not offensive, just a bit.. nothing..

the BMW is 'challenging' to look at - but most BMWs are when they come out. Remember the last shape 5 series? Everyone said it had eyes like dame vera lynn but now it looks smooth, understated and, well, good.

Be interesting to see what people think of these in 6 years as well. Might be surprising

Jeez. Imagine getting this wound up about cars that other people drive.

due to not seeing cars as status symbols.

Nobody does, do they?

yes, sadly some people do...they really do...

Inspired by MarkBrewer, I've found my favourite SniffPetrol fake advert:

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[i]due to not seeing cars as status symbols.[/i]

Nobody does, do they?

You'd be surprised!

aracer - Member
So what does your X6 say about your status, random? I'm struggling here due to not seeing cars as status symbols.

I don't drive an X6?

Ever notice these "pointless" or "stupid" car threads are always about cars the OP and subsequent posters can't afford?

Not really as most are leased.
If you have to lease a car, you cannot afford it.