Cars
If there is a symbol for everything that's wrong about excess in the automotive world, the BMW X6 is it. The BMW X6 is an overweight machine with overwrought styling and an overeagerness to be "sporty".
Why go ugly and impractical when you could have a 2011 Porsche Cayenne? Why challenge everything that is completely understood by chassis engineers at McLaren, Ferrari, and Lotus by fitting the X6 with enough unsprung weight to hold a crime family under the Hudson? Why delve deeper into ever-expanding niches to find the limits of desirability when time and money could be spent improving the BMW M3's brakes and stripping weight out of the BMW 135i? Why oh why oh why?
To fully explain the BMW X6's styling catastrophes would be to write a book called What Not To Draw. Expunging the myth that the BMW X6 is worth being seen in is as easy as staring at it for more than a couple initially presence-filled impactful seconds. There is so much wrong with this vehicle, and the wrongs aren't the kind of wrongs you set aside because its wheels are gorgeous or its powertrain is magical. The BMW X6's wrongs are halfway to criminal.
Alternatives: Porsche Cayenne, BMW X5, drunk dialing.
Base USD/CAD Price: $57,000 / $65,700
Improvements Required: Could we just forget the BMW X6 ever happened? We could, almost. BMW hardly sells any of'em, and the X5 could easily take over the X6's marketplace position, just like it had been doing quite nicely for a decade before the X6 came along.
Historical Significance: BMW introduced the X5, their first SUV (or SAV as they like to say) in the late 90s. It was controversial, not entirely unexpected, and wonderfully successful. A decade later, BMW thought they'd go for totally unexpected, terribly unsuccessful, and completely controversial.
The Good 12
- The Bad 8 V4.0 Part 8 - Nissan Versa Sedan
NISSAN VERSA SEDAN Now with a longstanding tradition of badness, the Nissan Versa sedan is in its fourth year as a member of The Bad 8. "Hear the engine drone," was the text in 2008. "It's as dull as December 27th local news," 2009's Bad 8 said....
- The Bad 8 V4.0 Part 5 - Lexus Hs250h
LEXUS HS250h Absurdly popular, the Toyota Corolla is not one of GoodCarBadCar.net's favourite cars. Corollas are vanilla, and not the scrumptuous Cows kind of vanilla many hold dear. There's nothing exciting about the Corolla; nothing attractive...
- The Bad 8 V4.0 Part 2 - Bmw 5-series Gt
BMW 5-SERIES GRAN TURISMO Did we ask for this? Were letters secretly sent to BMW by citizens unwilling to publicize their desires? Are there people who have a fetish for awkwardly-shaped, overweight BMWs? GoodCarBadCar.net tries not to disparage vehicles...
- The Bad 8 V4.0 Part 1 - Acura Zdx
ACURA ZDX The Acura ZDX, like most Acuras and many other luxury cars available today, has a really stupid name. ZDX means nothing. We can't really hold this against the ZDX because, as mentioned before, even some Good 12 winners have stupid names....
- The Good 12 V4.0 Part 11 - Porsche Cayenne
PORSCHE CAYENNE Like a frog turned into a prince, the Porsche Cayenne was once useful and dynamic but is now, in generation deux, useful, dynamic and handsome. The first-generation Cayenne's 2007 facelift did it no favours, but one never heard...
Cars
The Bad 8 v4.0 Part 3 - BMW X6
BMW X6
To fully explain the BMW X6's styling catastrophes would be to write a book called What Not To Draw. Expunging the myth that the BMW X6 is worth being seen in is as easy as staring at it for more than a couple initially presence-filled impactful seconds. There is so much wrong with this vehicle, and the wrongs aren't the kind of wrongs you set aside because its wheels are gorgeous or its powertrain is magical. The BMW X6's wrongs are halfway to criminal.
-----
Alternatives: Porsche Cayenne, BMW X5, drunk dialing.
Base USD/CAD Price: $57,000 / $65,700
Improvements Required: Could we just forget the BMW X6 ever happened? We could, almost. BMW hardly sells any of'em, and the X5 could easily take over the X6's marketplace position, just like it had been doing quite nicely for a decade before the X6 came along.
Historical Significance: BMW introduced the X5, their first SUV (or SAV as they like to say) in the late 90s. It was controversial, not entirely unexpected, and wonderfully successful. A decade later, BMW thought they'd go for totally unexpected, terribly unsuccessful, and completely controversial.
The Bad 8
Acura ZDX - BMW 5-Series GT
Honda Accord Crosstour - Lexus HS250h
Lincoln MKT - Nissan Leaf - Nissan Versa Sedan
The Good 12
Audi Q5 - Buick Enclave - Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon
Fiat 500 - Ford F-150 - Ford Mustang V6 - Infiniti G25
Jeep Wrangler - Nissan Juke - Porsche Boxster Spyder
Fiat 500 - Ford F-150 - Ford Mustang V6 - Infiniti G25
Jeep Wrangler - Nissan Juke - Porsche Boxster Spyder
Porsche Cayenne - Toyota Venza
Rules & Nominees
- The Bad 8 V4.0 Part 8 - Nissan Versa Sedan
NISSAN VERSA SEDAN Now with a longstanding tradition of badness, the Nissan Versa sedan is in its fourth year as a member of The Bad 8. "Hear the engine drone," was the text in 2008. "It's as dull as December 27th local news," 2009's Bad 8 said....
- The Bad 8 V4.0 Part 5 - Lexus Hs250h
LEXUS HS250h Absurdly popular, the Toyota Corolla is not one of GoodCarBadCar.net's favourite cars. Corollas are vanilla, and not the scrumptuous Cows kind of vanilla many hold dear. There's nothing exciting about the Corolla; nothing attractive...
- The Bad 8 V4.0 Part 2 - Bmw 5-series Gt
BMW 5-SERIES GRAN TURISMO Did we ask for this? Were letters secretly sent to BMW by citizens unwilling to publicize their desires? Are there people who have a fetish for awkwardly-shaped, overweight BMWs? GoodCarBadCar.net tries not to disparage vehicles...
- The Bad 8 V4.0 Part 1 - Acura Zdx
ACURA ZDX The Acura ZDX, like most Acuras and many other luxury cars available today, has a really stupid name. ZDX means nothing. We can't really hold this against the ZDX because, as mentioned before, even some Good 12 winners have stupid names....
- The Good 12 V4.0 Part 11 - Porsche Cayenne
PORSCHE CAYENNE Like a frog turned into a prince, the Porsche Cayenne was once useful and dynamic but is now, in generation deux, useful, dynamic and handsome. The first-generation Cayenne's 2007 facelift did it no favours, but one never heard...