The BMW X3 M50 might not be a full-fat ‘M’ car, but that hasn’t stopped the German car maker from imbuing it with that special M division fairy dust.

2025 BMW X3 M50 xDrive

There are a lot of things BMW does well when it comes to building cars, but there are two standouts – one, imbuing performance into otherwise everyday cars; and two, powerful inline six-cylinder engines.

Combining those two traits has given us some of the most iconic cars ever, and almost all of them wear the hallowed ‘M’ badge.

And that remains true of the BMW X3, an otherwise comfortable and well-appointed medium SUV which, with the addition of BMW’s M division magic wand, transforms into a capable and soulful performance SUV.

The fourth-generation BMW X3 (internal code G45 for the BMW anoraks out there) was reve

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