2024
Semi-Auto
128.4 mpg
Tax: £170
Mileage: 5
Hybrid
Tax: £180
Mileage: 500
Mileage: 512
44.8 mpg
Mileage: 801
Diesel
Mileage: 1,776
2023
Automatic
Tax: £0
Mileage: 2,339
Electric
Mileage: 2,491
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After years of evolution, this fourth generation BMW X3 gets a dose of revolution - on the more boldly-styled surface anyway. Underneath, things are rather different, this G45-era model continuing with the CLAR WE architecture of its predecessor and a familiar-looking range of combustion engines. Only combustion engines as it happens: the now-departed old Chinese-built electric iX3 will be reborn as a separately-platformed model based around the even more radical Neue Klasse X concept design. The X3 is a hugely important car for BMW to get right, the previous three generations having amassed over 3.5 million global sales. The first two designs, the E83 of 2003 and the F25 of 2010, occupied market territory for more compact family SUVs now covered by the X1. The third generation G01 model of 2017 shifted up-market, a car that (like its predecessor and this MK4 model) is mainly assembled in the US at Spartanburg, South Carolina; only the MK1 X3 was European-built (in Graz, Austria). In this G45 range, only the PHEV version hails from a different factory - Rosslyn in South Africa.
BMW has had a lot to do with the rise in popularity of mid-sized premium SUVs, having pioneered this segment back in 2003. Rivals have grabbed the headlines since, but with this fourth generation model, the Bavarians are out to redefine what a car of this kind should be. In many ways, this car does just that. Yes it's true that it doesn't offer much that's radically different to what we've seen before in this class, but everything it does do is so complete and polished that it's hard not to admire the end result. Probably the most significant thing about this redesigned G45-era model is that it's given the X3 a luxury demeanour it lacked before, both in terms of its streetside presence and its classy cabin. It really is now the junior X5 we were always promised and quite a number of owners of that larger model might well be tempted to downsize into this one. It's also good enough to drive to ensure that up-sizing 3 Series drivers won't feel short-changed. Of course, no BMW X-model will take you very far off road - and this one certainly can't - but it doesn't deliver that kind of capability because it doesn't need to. In summary, we think that buyers in this sector who can afford the asking price should find that this rejuvenated X3 adds up very nicely indeed. A vehicle this good ought to speak for itself. Try one and we think you'll find that it does.
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