Vehicle Overview
BMW brought austere sportiness into the action account agent acreage back it formed out the midsize X5. Early in 2004, BMW launched the X3, which is abate than the X5 and fits into the aforementioned affluence SUV articulation as the Acura RDX and Land Rover LR2.
In 2007, the X3 got a added able agent as able-bodied as autogenous and exoteric tweaks. For 2008, there are accessory changes to advantage and trim packages, and alive arch restraints are now standard.
BMW’s xDrive all-wheel-drive arrangement permits absolutely capricious administration of torque from advanced to rear. Up to 100 percent of agent torque can go to either axle, as needed. Dynamic Stability Control aids in stabilizing the agent in difficult situations and now includes a brake-drying feature, anchor achromatize advantage and start-off assist. Hill Descent Control helps alike if the arena is apart or slippery.
Exterior
The X3’s administration is agnate to that of the X5, but on a hardly abate scale. Design cues accommodate a beginning estimation of the Hofmeister coil — a angle abaft the rear ancillary windows that distinguishes BMWs — and a adaptation of the automaker’s twin-kidney grille.
Seventeen-inch auto are standard, and 18- and 19-inch auto are optional. Adaptive xenon headlights that affection candelabrum rings are additionally optional.
Interior
The five-person berth appearance accustomed analog gauges, and the dashboard appearance copse trim. A aeronautics arrangement is optional. Leatherette upholstery is standard, and covering is optional.
Under the Hood
The 3.0-liter inline-six-cylinder makes 260 application and 225 pounds-feet of torque. It teams with either a six-speed chiral gearbox or a six-speed Steptronic automated transmission.
Safety
Side-impact airbags are accepted for advanced occupants and alternative for rear passengers. Ancillary blind airbags, which BMW calls its Arch Protection System, assure occupants in the advanced and rear. Alive arch restraints are anew standard. BMW says they will move advanced aural fractions of a additional in a rear-collision bearings to advice anticipate close injuries.
