2009 BMW X6 Hybrid Cars
The BMW X6 crossover two mode hybrid will probably come out in 2009, with an improved fuel economy of about 25%. By going from 15 mpg to 19 mpg, an owner of the BMW X6 Hybrid will actually save around 170 gallons a year (assuming 12,000 miles driven per year).
BMW rarely wastes time creating concept vehicles with no production future, and that applies to the X6. Unveiled at September's Frankfurt auto show, this swoopy four-door was a no-kidding portent of a vehicle that will actually show up in BMW showrooms. Details—engine specs, curb weights, dimensions, pricing—were extremely sketchy. 3. The X6 will serve as the introductory vehicle for a new technology BMW calls Dynamic Performace Control (DPC) which is a further development of the company's xDrive all-wheel-drive system. Similar in concept to Acura's Super Handling All-Wheel Drive (SH-AWD), DPC apportions engagement of the rear wheels from side to side based on need, and like the Acura system, it can rotate the outside wheel faster than the inside wheel in hard cornering, thus improving cornering speed.
BMW has shown two strikingly different concepts of the X6, a high-riding SUV that's a four-door coupe version of the 6 Series and a hybrid Cars version of the same hatchback coupe that was claimed to get about 20 percent better fuel economy than the standard version, with a concomitant reduction in tailpipe emissions.
The major difference between the X6 and 6 Series Coupe will be the full-time computer-controlled BMW X-Drive underneath the X6, featuring a new torque-distributing and selective-braking system called Dynamic Performance Control.
The "BMW X6 hybrid" is expected to use BMW's version of the gasoline-electric hybrid technology developed along with an international group of partners, Daimler AG, Chrysler, and General Motors.
