WHEN I FOUND OUT BMW HAD BROUGHT IN THE NEW X3 with only a petrol engine, I gasped. It’s not that their petrol models are remotely unpleasant, but it’s that their diesels are so, so good. That was fixed a few days later, thankfully, but back to the car at hand.
The X3, of course, is the mid-size SUV (or Sports Activity Vehicle, as Munich prefers to refer to it). At Rs 65.90 lakh (ex-showroom), it may seem like a lot of money, but there has been a slew of updates installed into the new model. This when the competition—the Volvo XC60,
