2019 BMW X4 M40i First Drive Review: Consider the Sports Activity Coupe No, really, consider it—because the funky-shaped SUV is here to stay, and this is one of the best so far. Whatever your thoughts on taking a perfectly fine SUV and swapping sobriquets and rooflines with a weekend toy, the burgeoning "sports activity coupe" class isn't going anywhere. And finally, a decade after BMW beat everyone to the punch and became a bit of a punchline when it launched the X6 as the first of several SACs (this marks the first and last time we'll use that acronym), the seriously solid 2019 BMW X4 shows the form is no longer a laughing matter.It's easy to poke fun at how the makers of Ultimate Driving Machines have settled into pumping out innumerable turtle-shaped crossovers and high-riding fastback sedans this decade. But the matryoshka doll strategy hasn't been for naught, as BMW has sold over 200,000 X4s worldwide since the becouped crossover debuted in Now, an engineering overhaul finally gives the next-generation model a real dose of performance to back up that sport-inflected facade.The 2019 X4 doesn't rewrite the laws of nature, and there's only so much a 355-horsepower straight-six engine, a locking rear differential, and an adaptive M suspension system can do to motivate a 4300-pound crossover through the curves. Yet I would challenge anyone to feel the way the X4 tucks itself into a high-speed turn, or hear the way the exhaust crackles and pops when you ease off the throttle, or experience the way that xDrive system can be tricked into an extended drift (more on that later) without cracking a smile. It's a flash of that old-school Bimmer magic in the unlikeliest of places—even if this particular jury is still out on the concept of a slope-roofed SUV.In case you're not up on BMW's naming scheme of late, the mess of new models over the past decade has thrown things into flux. Odd-numbered vehicles (3, 5, and 7) still represent traditional four-door models, while even numbers (2, 4, 6, and now 8) signify either a true two-door coupe or a nebulous four-door gran coupe. Then there's the whole Gran Turismo lineup, which sees the 3 and 6 series morph into higher-roofed fastback versions of the sedans
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