The BMW is X 6 ActiveHybrid on sale in the United States be withdrawn after less than two years, according to specialist BMW website Bimmerfile.com.
Focused on the American market, when it was launched end of 2009, had the BMW X 6 ActiveHybrid price of $88.900 (approx. £ 58,000) and that a key factor in the vehicle lack of sales success. Many potential customers happy instead for the X6M, the only $600 on the other side of the Atlantic more cost.
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The four-wheel-drive X 6 ActiveHybrid will draw from a 400bhp TwinPower Turbo V8 and two high-performance electric motors, the extra power from a brake regeneration plant.
With combined 478bhp (if the electric motors were used) and 575 lb ft, BMW, the X claimed the most powerful was 6 ActiveHybrid hybrid in the world, when it was launched. The car can accelerate from 0-60 mph in 5.4 seconds.
The car has offered in the UK was relative economic diesel X 6 variants of hybrid technology rendered unnecessary, as with diesel in the United States unpopular, it was hoped that the X would offer an attractive compromise between efficiency and performance 6 ActiveHybrid.
The fuel consumption is a claimed 28, 5-mpg Autocar close to this number when we drove it in November 2009, could not but. Read our first drive review of the BMW X 6 ActiveHybrid here.
The hybrid architecture is about 250 kg net weight, taking it to a significant 1 x added. Winning is all but offset-the additional reserves, by which the electric drive, leading to a ?power-weight ratio of 198bhp per tonne.
The electric motor and its ancillaries used in the X were 6 ActiveHybrid with Daimler and Thereford similar to how the Mercedes S400 hybrid equipped.
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