We're one month into our BMW iX 2022 long-term test and the big EV is already displaying its luxury qualities
I’ve already taken the iX on some big journeys, including a late-summer excursion a good few hundred miles into France and have found it to be the most comfortable, calming and relaxing car that I’ve driven in recent memory.
The data also suggests that this is a car dispelling the ‘all electric motors and batteries are the same’ myth and showing just what they can do for performance and efficiency with a decade or more of development behind them. The iX uses a pair of BMW’s fifth-generation motors, and I’ve been staggered by just how efficient it has been, even with 516bhp on tap.
It may still lose, but it would not be a foregone conclusion – and that’s something against the standout luxury SUV of the past 50 years. The xDrive50 uses twin electric motors for a combined 516bhp and all-wheel drive. That’s a lot of power but it’s needed for a car weighing more than two and a half tonnes – a figure that would be higher were it not for that carbonfibre core. Put your foot down and you’ll be under no illusions: this is no normal big-range EV, if you hadn’t realised that already.
There’s so much to explore in the iX, and that’s before you get to the £22,140 of options our M Sport-trim test car is fitted with. The likes of the £3500 Sky Lounge Pack and £5000 Technology Plus Pack are all things we’ll come back to.
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