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A nice looking and driving car from another German firm trying to capitalize on a reputation and expand to all sorts of price points, but at least not to extent of Mercedes-Benz. Even though this is not your personal vehicle, did you feel compelled to dispense with use of directional signals and general road courtesy whilst taking this out?
That engine sounds like power! Love the IL6. Great review, Matt.
Owned one for 3 years! It was perfect for my long commute and trips across Europe. It was headturner for sure. I now have a Golf R Mk8 for my new job which has a much shorter commute but still miss my 6 series.
Why would anyone who can afford this car be bothered about fuel economy??
Have you ever driven a CLS?
Yipee I'm 2,758th today
Always thought these were a incredibly handsome car .
Love the interior too .
5:01 honk!
Everything that is wrong with a modern vehicle, digital instruments, a touch screen and controls on the steering wheel including flappy paddles. Not ideal for IT illiterates who like me struggle with a mobile phone. A string of numbers for model designations, whatever happened to good old names, then again BMW have rarely ever done that.
Excellent review as always Matt. A pretty looking car.
looks like someone sneezed over the steering wheel and controls, nice to see a big indicator control very useful on a bmw not as there going to use it ,we all have to guess where there going next as they haven,t worked out how to use any of the controls or the sat nav if they could afford to have something so trivial to be fitted or hands free phone just a faff ,just cut people up much easier and cheaper
Very luxurious, very powerful, very complex, very expensive (I imagine), very much "lots to go wrong". If I am dreaming of luxury I always favour Jaguars. Of course, I am English and so probably daft.
Never liked the regular 6 series but 4 door make me love it
Glass is always like that on back doors so the window can go down due the angle around wheel arch
I bet that cost an arm and a leg when new. Will be greatly depreciated now 7 years old and would be a good buy……probably.
BMW nice cars until they break down
It is strange how cars can be really rather good in objective terms, yet somehow you just don't get them. In this case, there is still too much Bangle-ness, with its visual weight and the nose (which is still 5000% better than the current designs) is a bit lardy. A real hooter. The total killer for me though is the name. Gran. I know what they mean, but It makes me think of lovely elderly ladies discussing ailments. I loved my grans dearly, but one thing they don't make me think of is sporty cars. That sort of thing gets hardwired in to your brain! It also doesn't go with coupé, which is fine because it clearly isn't a coupé but a squished saloon. On balance, I think I'd rather be in the MX-5 just in front of you 🙂
I don't understand, let's make a test drive video of a nice car and the car is in shocking condition inside and out! You Brits don't understand anything about cars…
Not sure why you would bother with the four door. I had a ride in the back of one of these a few years ago. It was a pain, quite literally, to get in and out of and very claustrophobic when you were in it. Save some money and get a 5 series. Why pay more and get less? Sorry, I don't get it.
Great review Matt! Beautiful car, ultimate GT with a big diesel engine. Love it.
So the manual was only offered in the country that famously doesn’t like manuals, BMW we’re not planning on selling any manuals really were they.
One of the best modern BMWs , but no match for the original 635CSI .
Always found the 2 door coupe a lot more attractive myself
Very tasteful design unlike today's Bimmers.
There's this rather dodgy looking geezer in this month's Practical Classics magazine… 😉
The doors have frameless glass. The 6 series gran coupe still has pillars. Usually pillarless refers to coupes which do not have a B-pillar (ref: 2nd generation Mercedes CLK)
Nah, fastback (or a liftback, if it is a 2 box instead of a 3 box configuration). Coupe can only be a 2/3 door car.
Problem with this and most other Merc & BMW sedans, they are made to be driven by a dwarf, gnome or pygmy not a tall Nordic human, and should you wish to convey anyone other than a child in the rear, there is no space. Yet my 1967 mk10/420G Jaguar height at roof is ACTUALLY LOWER than this 6 series BMW, or the Merc' CLS , however at almost 6 foot 4 inches, I can sit in my vintage Jaguars throne like seats which have NO up/down vertical movement and there is space between the roof lining and my head. Not only that, but with the front seats pushed back to sit two 6 foot 4 inch tall front occupants there is enough legroom in the rear seat to sit THREE 6 foot 4 inch tall persons with PLENTY of STRETCH out legroom and plenty of head room as back seat passengers, not just two "little" people Plus my Jag has rear ducted air conditioning & heating outlets & two opening tables in the back of the front seats.
Yet all 3 cars are almost the same size, the Jaguar is 202 inches long, the 6 series BMW 197 inches long and the Merc CLS 196 inches long. However, the 2 German cars have long bonnets that eat space, and boot lids that are as long as the Jaguar's but lower, giving less cabin space and less boot space from similar sized cars. In the Jaguars huge boot is a full-sized spare wheel sitting vertically for easy use, plus remains another 32 cubic feet of gigantic & useable boot space, more than the BMW & Merc added together.
AND as an FYI for all those that have never liked nor understood the mk10/420G, as Jaguars premium product to be the base for all the following XJ series of cars, Bill Lyons handed it to his inhouse body genius, aerodynamicist Malcolm Sayer. I met Malcolm as a boy, as he and Norman Dewis, walked me around the Jaguar factory explaining their proud new achievement in 1961, when my mum's new MK10 was being prepared and temporarily registered for a month or so in the UK & Europe before being loaded into a boat & shipped back to home to Mosman in Sydney, Australia. I truly understood what they were telling me as my dad had been an Air Force officer, and had a Cesena of his own to fly, and my mum's dad, Pa was an industrial engineer and my closest buddy, my teacher.
Sayer's giant bulbous mk10 was the first motor car EVER deigned to use aeronautic LAMINAR Flow in/on a car hence its unusual fuselage shape, ie tapered dramatically front and rear , very small frontal aspect with its extremely raked forward upper frontal aspect leading to its "hilly" bonnet rising to a shallow and very curved windscreen and similar at rear, plus a "fatpoint" in the middle on the roof and in the middle at the sides, almost like a giant stretched egg shape, coupled with a flat chassis/monocoque underside giving this big 4door car a very very low CD wind drag factor unbeaten until recently by some electric vehicles, giving it enormous stability at speed & terrible crosswinds. Superior aerodynamic theory put into subtle practical effect and use in late 1961. Drive one in blinding rain, then look at it closely after arriving at your destination and look carefully at the paint and try and find much tyre wash & filth, the shape of the car has basically sucked it off the car, leaving it very clean indeed and at speed windscreen wipers are almost not needed, clever scientific understated design from Jaguar in 1961, pure class, a better car than most anyone actually realizes and in so many hidden unknown ways. Back from a time just after WW2 when Britton's had every right to be proud with the creation for example:- the Avro Vulcan, or its "brother" the Hawker Harrier Jump Jet.
Move ahead a little to the early 2000's & Jaguars release of their remarkable new all aluminium bodied X350 XJ car range, designed with care & flair, also to be practical in accident repair costs to front & rear panels. Now look back to the 2003 German opposition products, consider their new price as compared to a Jaguar X350 XJ series price. Now in 2023 look at the residual value, check price on a low mileage Merc CL500, compared to a slightly rough XJ and near most XJ's are selling at a higher price, than the CL500 clearly the market is deciding the price on what is REALLY the superior product, and it doesn't matter what country you are in either. Interestingly this 40-year newer Jaguar's height is the same as the Merc CLS or 6 series BMW however as a tall person there isn't an issue in the cabin size of XJ x350 I can fit like a hand in a glove not so in the small, cramped interiors of the German cars.