hi everyone it's webby and welcome to another car review today we're going to be having a
look at the 2021 bmw x3 m40i this is almost the top of the range in terms of x3 models
the only one that sits above it is the xvm competition and that is a hell of a lot more money
so i'm basically going to talk around the car show you a bit of the spec on the inside of the outside
we'll obviously take you for a drive um and i'll tell you why this would be my pick
of the medium size suv with the performance kind of edge on it if you like because it's got some
fairly stiff competition you've got things like the audi sq5 you've got the mercedes glc amg 43
porsche mccann and even cars like the alfa romero stelvio although that doesn't really sit above it
in terms of price um but they're all sort of round about that sort of money and features and engine
so there's a lot of competition for this car so sit back enjoy a couple well i'll talk you around
the new xvm4ti so starting at the front of the car it's got the traditional sort of m sport styling
the lower scoops sort of the lower front bumper and you've got these massive kidney grilles at
the front as well but on the m40i they're in this sort of satin bronze type color uh for the grilles
and also the fog light strands as well um i wasn't too sure on the color at first but actually it's
kind of grown on me a little bit um and i don't mind it it is one of the sort of the visual cues
that sort of tell you this is the m40 not one like a two litre diesel or something like that so it is
nice you've got a subtle difference between this and the sort of lower grades as well the satin
bronze theme continues around to the side with these 21 inch alloy wheels which are standard
um which i think is fantastic because bmw normally charges you a fortune for that sort of thing
you've then also got these satin buns little grilles here you've got your m badge just to
remind you that you've got the uh the m sport version um it does have a fairly sort of subtle
body kit here at the bottom uh around the sides uh the mirrors are also in the satin bronze color
as well um so yeah it's kind of subtle but kind of you know what you know what it is if you're
looking for one um and if you know what it is you kind of know that this is a pretty quick suv
and coming around to the back of the car the sporty body kit continues
so down here you've got a slightly different rear diffuser than you would on the lower models as
well uh you've got these really fat exhaust pipes which look really sort of purposeful and chunky
there is actually a proper exhaust in there as well it's not one of these sort of pretend fake
ones and you've got one either side so yeah if you didn't see the badge on the back of the car just
looking at the exhaust you know this is uh mini business under the bonnet is the heart of this
beast it's a three liter straight six turbocharged petrol engine good for 285 kilowatt and 500 newton
meters of torque and that's all driven to an eight speed zf automatic gearbox now before we get stuck
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so now we've done the outside of the car let's get stuck into the inside i can show you all the
features and standard equipment on this new x3 m40i um i think you'd be really impressed
because as i said before the earlier in the video everything on this car is standard so everything
i talk about is you already get for your money so yeah let's jump inside as soon as you jump in
you've got these really nice sporty seats um they're really comfortable
with the leathers beautiful you've got plenty of adjustment here with the electric buttons
you can even extend the under leg section there as well if you've got really long legs
they've also got memory settings as well so you can have a couple of drivers stored in there
and the front seats are heated so it's got kind of got everything you'd really want one option
you can do is actually option um sort of comfort seats which then give you heating and cooling um
i like the idea of having the cooling but i think i prefer these sport seats it's a shame you can't
get the sport seats with the cooling function because i think that would be the best combination
um but i think i'd personally stick with the sport seats i just think they're a bit nicer
and more in keeping with the character of the car we've also got some other nice features
like the harman kardon audio system here which sounds superb we've got the full length glass
panoramic sunroof which is fantastic it's obviously got an electric internal blind
so you can keep the sun out on hot days um but it's just a really nice place i like things like
all this um sort of ribbed section on the seats it's super comfortable and so these are the
extended section for the under the legs i was talking about earlier
um it's just a really nice place and so there's the
digital dashboard you can even show things like your sat nav on there as well
and if you're using apple carplay for your sat nav it still shows the directions up in the dash
which is really impressive so this is currently showing the wireless apple carplay um because i'm
actually using my phone to film with so it's still connected to carplay at the same time
so it's a really nice wide screen particularly if you go in and choose your google maps and
you get a really great view of where you're driving or where you're going to in directions
and bits and pieces that's really handy in the center there as usual apart from
obviously the gear stick you got your hard drive controllers over there
you got buttons there for things like your parking sensors which cameras you want to operate and
your downhill descent over here we've got all the buttons for the different sport modes and
suspension and you can tailor that um to whatever you want you've got your standard presets you can
also choose individual options as well so that's a really cool little feature too so coming into
the back of the x3 and you've got really generous amount of space here in the back you can actually
stretch your legs out all the way under the front of the driver's seat so it actually makes for a
much more relaxing journey there's also plenty of headroom despite having this panoramic sunroof
so that's really nice as well in the middle here we've got air vents for the rear passengers
we've also got controls for the rear climate control as well which is actually quite nice
and then down the bottom we've got two usbc charging points um usbc is the faster version
of usb charging points so that means you can keep your phone and your ipad
charged up nice and easily while you're driving particularly good if you've got kids in the back
and then also got the obligatory armrest a couple of cupholders there in the middle um
pretty standard fare these days uh obviously iso fix child points for the car seats as well
um so you don't miss out anything um it's a really good sort of package
coming around to the back of the car the tailgate is electric as you'd probably
expect in a car like this and it opens up to reveal a really decent amount of space
which is very usable because it's quite square there's no wheel arch intrusions
so it's very easy to sort of load maximum amount of capacity in here folding the rear seat stand
is actually quite easy you got a little lever either side which you can just pull
and then they drop down or that side would if my camera gearbox wasn't behind the seat,
you get the idea, so we're going to take this x3 foot drive, find some twisty bits and have
some fun, um, but before we get there, I'll just put the car in comfort mode to start with
just until we find some interesting corners and this is kind of the mode you just use for
everyday driving um just pootling down the shop sort of work or taking kids to school
and considering it rides on 21-inch wheels, it's actually pretty comfortable um obviously,
if you find a road that's less than perfect, it's a little bit bumpy,
but on the whole, considering like I say it's got those wheels, it's got sports suspension
it's a pretty comfortable car to drive, and it's also very quiet as well um I mean I've got the
sunroof open if you close it gets even quieter, so it's a very very nice sort of place to be
you certainly wouldn't complain if you were driving this every day
and having that lovely straight-six turbocharged petrol engine under the bonnet,
it will cruise along quite happily just do its normal thing,
but you know you've got plenty of power and reserve if you suddenly want to
switch into sport mode and have a bit of fun and the twisties,
but it will do that for you as well so here's a little bit of a Jekyll and hyde car
I don't know how much more power you'd really want in a car
like this, to be honest, I know BMW's got the x3m competition which is 375 kilowatts to see, I don't
know how much more power you'd need than this because to me 285 kilowatt is more than enough
in a car this size so I can't imagine what an x3m competition would be like it would just be insane
um but also imagine that would be a little bit bumpy on the roads as well
um because obviously this is designed for
a bit of everyday use just happens to have a pretty powerful engine under the bonnet.
but it's nice to have all those creature comforts I was talking about um I love this sunroof the
fact that it's; literally, you know full-length sunroof is lovely um the head-up display is superb
um, you know, the nice big infotainment screen there on the dash, uh
you know it takes a bit of getting used to once you find where stuff is
but yeah, once you've got the hang of it, it's pretty easy; unlike most
modern entertainment systems, you only tend to use so many functions anyway be like you do your
mobile phone um you know they can do so much more, but you only tend to use certain functions
um but yeah as a day-to-day drive it's really nice to drive um seats are superb they're
really supportive I like the fact that you can actually extend the bolster underneath your legs
um so if you are someone's got particularly long legs
you get a bit more under leg support then you put in some other cars
and one feature I did find um
so with this infotainment system a lot of the menus are sort of a bit buried
if you've had a bmw before you'll be quite familiar with where to find things
um you know what folder or sub menu you have to look in to find something but if you're new to
the brand it's probably a little bit sort of a bit of guesswork as to sort of finding what you want
um but yeah actually once you're used to it so it's not too bad at all but the nice
thing you can do you've got these buttons just across the center console one to seven
in the olden days they used to be where you store your radio stations um fm and am and that type of
thing but bmw have long had the feeling off like well how many radio stations you need
to listen to um so basically they're shortcut buttons and you can assign them to anything you
want you could have a pre-determined sat nav address you could store favorite phone numbers
or you can actually put a shortcut to a particular menu that you might use fairly regularly um so i
was trying to adjust the speakers the other day just like the basin and treble that type of thing
so i actually assigned one of the uh favorite buttons to the sound menu uh for the speakers
so it means that every time if i wanted to go in to adjust it i haven't got to keep going deep
into the menus to try and find it i can literally just press the the button that i've assigned it to
and straight away i've got my sound controls come up i do like little touches like that but that's
not a new thing for bmw and that's you know that's in all their models it's just something i've got
to point out that yeah if you've never driven bmw before it's actually quite a nice feature
so as I'm saying, this car is bog-standard straight out of the box nothing's an extra part
of the metallic paint um you've even got this, you know, fantastic Harman Kardon sound system
which you know in years gone by things like that the sunroof the 21-inch wheels
you used to have to pay a lot of money to get all those extras
so it's actually nice the BMW put expensive options like that as standard now um I guess
you could argue that for the money they're asking for this car you'd expect them to be
included anyway but um yeah in the past I haven't been trying on charging for nice extras like that
All right, that's enough of comfort mode. I've probably in sport plus now, so hopefully soon,
we'll find some nice twisty bits where we can have a bit of fun and, uh, here a few pops out of the
exhaust
yeah, that's um, that's very urgent when you put your foot in a loud pedal
this would actually be quite good fun even in Germany and going down the autobahns
because here in Australia, he's scared to go over the speed limit because some
yeah, you lose your license pretty quick in this car
but thankfully, the brakes are up to the job of slung you down as well
just go around those twisty corners amount of grip was uh was pretty impressive and that's a four
wheel drive and it's got big wide tyres but it's still a big kind of throw around um so yeah it
is impressive coming to the price of the x3 m40i because i'm sure that's what you're waiting for
a hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars plus damn duty registration and dealer
delivery um so you're into sort of the 120s for something like this which sounds a lot of
money for a medium-sized suv but it's actually in keeping with all the other competition i mentioned
at the beginning of the video they're all going to be around the same sort of ballpark figure
so it's not sort of expensive or anything like that and then when you look at what you actually
get for that money as i keep saying everything on this car is standard um you don't have to sort of
plunge too far into the options list to get this car um normally you'd pay for things like the 21
inch wheels the sun moves off you know stuff like that but bmw have included it all the standard and
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obviously i want to say a huge thanks to bmw australia for lending me the car
they've let me have the car for a week so i've really had a chance to get to
know the car really well um i haven't really found any bits i don't like
because normally when you drive a car that you haven't driven before you know you find me it's
oh i don't really like that um there were a couple of bits that took me a while to get my head around
learning how to sort of use all the menus on the infotainment system was a little bit of a struggle
until i remembered you could use the one to seven buttons on the dash to store um sort of shortcuts
to menus and you know mobile phone numbers and satin have shortcuts and things like that um so
that was probably my only gripe i would say about the whole experience of driving this car the rest
of it has been really positive um i've had a great week with a car i've really enjoyed it
um got to give the keys back later today so that'll be a
sad occasion i suppose um jump back in my golf but that's okay um there's going to
be more content coming soon with some other manufacturers as well i'll be back in a bmw
soon in about a month or so time um because i've got some more content with bmw coming up
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