2026 BMW X3 Consumer Reviews
Most Helpful Reviews
Positive Review
The New BMW X3 2025 is beautiful inside and out but the technology is meant for the younger generations. This car has iDrive 9 and is impossible to learn. The voice recognition is horrible. You put into android auto or iphone and it keeps failing. My neighbor got the new iDrive 9 in his 2024 and after 1 year neither he nor his wife can figure out how to use the car. She refuses to drive the car because she can not get the navigation to work and her husband agrees. Do not go near this system if you are over 50. you'll never learn it.
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Critical Review
Electronics failures from the start, dash going black and not working, phones don't connect, interior mood lighting failures after less than 3 weeks, and center console that won't stay closed because of defective latch system that is mysteriously on back order... due to lots of them failing? Drives like a BMW, and I've owned 4. Fun to drive. Buy one if you want to fight with the electrical gremlins, want all your cups to eject from the rear seat cupholders because they are configured with springs for some reason, and if you want to be in the shop every month since you bought the thing. Also, don't expect the trunk to close when you press the button - it only works part of the time. Same with the auto start/stop disable button. Expect to press that 2-3 times to get it to work.
2026 X3 Reviews
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Great BMW performance
Tricky to use dashboard screen
This is a great vehicle, fantastic BMW performance, but it takes awhile to understand how all of the electronics work. For example, to turn on the radio to a specific station requires 5 moves on the dashboard screen. The radio never seems to return to the last station when I turn the car off (I have Serius XM, but it always goes back to an AM station when I first turn on the car). This seems a bit much for a BMW. I'm still giving the vehicle a 5 star rating, even with the electronics situation, because once you get to know the vehicle, steps become routine (seemingly not necessary, but routine).
Electronics failures from the start, dash going black and not working, phones don't connect, interior mood lighting failures after less than 3 weeks, and center console that won't stay closed because of defective latch system that is mysteriously on back order... due to lots of them failing? Drives like a BMW, and I've owned 4. Fun to drive. Buy one if you want to fight with the electrical gremlins, want all your cups to eject from the rear seat cupholders because they are configured with springs for some reason, and if you want to be in the shop every month since you bought the thing. Also, don't expect the trunk to close when you press the button - it only works part of the time. Same with the auto start/stop disable button. Expect to press that 2-3 times to get it to work.
The New BMW X3 2025 is beautiful inside and out but the technology is meant for the younger generations. This car has iDrive 9 and is impossible to learn. The voice recognition is horrible. You put into android auto or iphone and it keeps failing. My neighbor got the new iDrive 9 in his 2024 and after 1 year neither he nor his wife can figure out how to use the car. She refuses to drive the car because she can not get the navigation to work and her husband agrees. Do not go near this system if you are over 50. you'll never learn it.
