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BMW's X6 "Sports Activity Coupe" is a car of contradictions. Our review of the 2009 BMW X6 range called it "an oddity: a sport-utility vehicle designed to have a coupe-like shape."

For 2010, BMW has added a new model that may polarize people even further. It's the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid X6, the first production hybrid from the maker of ultimate driving machines.

It's both the world's most powerful hybrid and the model in the X6 range that gets the best mileage. It has 485 horsepower and 575 foot-pounds of torque, which it gets by combining a 407-hp, 4.4-liter twin-turbocharged V8 engine with a pair of electric motors. Oh, and it costs ninety...

We've known for a while that among other BMWs for 2010, the company would introduce its X6 ActiveHybrid this fall.

Now Autocar reports that the new version of the large, US-built "sport activity coupe" will be the world's most powerful hybrid-electric vehicle, with its 4.4-liter V8 and electric motor combining to produce 478 horsepower and 575 foot-pounds of torque.

That gives it not only a 0-to-62-mph time of just 5.6 seconds, but gas mileage of 22.8 miles per gallon on the European test cycle. That's a significant improvement on the six-cylinder X6's EPA ratings of 16 mpg city / 20 mpg highway.

BMW claims that the X6 ActiveHybrid, like...

The 2010 BMW X6 M is hitting the streets, and our cohorts at Motor Authority are among the first to drive the performance-tuned version of BMW's "Sport-Activity Vehicle" this week in Atlanta.

Reporting for TheCarConnection and Motor Authority, Nelson Ireson tells us that on the high-speed turns at the massive Road Atlanta road course, "there's a brief moment where you wonder if it's even physically possible for the 5,324lb (2,415kg) missile you're now a part of to slow down enough to make the turn and avoid surfing the sand into the runoff area. But the moment passes and soon enough you're throwing the car into a four-wheel drift and...