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Originally Posted by Bimmerista
I think you are confusing the x6 with the Raum Funktionales Fahrzeug. The X6 is designed to compete with the Range Rover Sport. It will be a four/five seater with less room than the X5 but build off the same chassis and components - it is designed to be sportier, will look sportier and be lower to the ground, and more expensive than the X5.
The MB R class competitor (RFF) has not yet been greenlighted by the supervisory board, even though it is in advanced stages of planning. The tepid market reaction to the R class are apparently making BMW cautious about approving it.
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Perhaps you don't know: The R-Class is already on the road...
They planned to build a MPV or Raum Funktionales Fahrzeug as you called it. But it's not in line with the BMW-thinking of building cars. BMW-cars should've always a sporty flavour, a MPV doesn't have that. Maybe a sort of coupe-style MPV, with the size: between the touring and normal MPV, in the future, I don't know.
You're right that in competition it perhaps comes closer to the Range Rover Sport, but as you can in the pictures: it is lower but not shorter. So the shape of the car is more in line with the Merc R-Class.
A pic of the R-Class, its shape does look like the spied X6:
Coupe-styled (low), SUV-styled (big wheels, chunky bumpers), MPV-styled (lot's of room, but in a BMW this is always relative)