If you were bewildered by the design of the new BMW Concept XM, the short video clip the automaker has produced to explain its appeal is unlikely to solve that.
Released alongside the super SUV, it’s an “inspiring music video combining a unique location, expressive dance, and an extraordinary concept car.” The location in question being a Middle-Earth-style castle that is being sieged (?) by cavalry and also the Concept XM.
As we all well know, the finest form of attack against a fortified structure is (all together now, military historians) interpretive dance that vacillates between this and the nether realm of greenscreenification – as if I even had to say it.
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Besides being a bewildering look into the mind of a choreographer who misunderstood The Green Knight after watching it while high on molly, you also get some shots of the Concept M driving off-road, a sense of the scale of the interior thanks to a dance number that incorporates it, and the knowledge that it is powered by a V8 thanks to the sound effects. So it’s kind of effective, I guess.
Billed as the first-ever electrified high-performance model by BMW M, the Concept XM is powered by a plug-in hybrid powertrain whose star is a V8. When it’s all working in harmony, BMW says it’s capable of producing 750 hp (760 PS/559 kW) and 737 lb-ft (999 Nm) of torque. It would also be good for up to 50 miles (80 km) of pure electric range if you were to ask the WLTP and 30 miles (48 km) if you were to ask the EPA.
As a concept, though, it’s as much of a design exercise as it is anything else, so BMW says it’s “a preview of the new front end design for BMW’s forthcoming luxury-class models.”
A production version of the BMW XM is, though, coming in late 2022. Expected to take on the likes of Bentley, Porsche, and Lamborghini, the price of the production vehicle might the even more imposing than that massive grille.