2015 BMW X6 M: Reality Distortion Field

It’s hard to describe how a vehicle like the 2015 BMW X6 M acquits itself when plunged into a situation 99.9 percent of its owners will never engage in.

I was shocked by just how eagerly the 2015 BMW X6 M devoured the course’s straightaways.

The normal laws of acceleration, momentum, and gravity were even more flagrantly suspended when it came time to bank the BMW SUV into one of the track’s many S-curves.

The X6 M's interior is exceptionally well executed.

There's even belt cut-outs in the seatbacks for those who intend to install a racing harness.

The 2015 BMW X6 M is a full-size SUV that has been conceived specifically to satisfy this unique demographic.

The unusually-shaped cargo area and low roof cut into the practicality of the BMW X6 M.

There exists a small sliver of the automotive market that absolutely always wants to be driving the fastest, most powerful version of whatever vehicle strikes their fancy.

Strangely, I am no neophyte at driving unusually heavy vehicles within the confines of Austin’s proudest road course.

A 2,300 kilo monster unleashed on pavement more used to the gentle tread of open-wheeled, winged beasts?

BMW's iDrive remains the centrepiece of the SUV's infotainment system.

At the end of COTA’s 1.6-kilometre back straight, the turbocharged beast was doing an incredible 235 km/h.

The X6 M happily rotated on its massive 20-inch, 25-series non-run-flat rubber, sliding ever so slightly to the outside of a turn.

Neither the heart, nor the head, wants to park the 2015 BMW X6 M in the driveway.

The venue for my exploration of the redesigned BMW X6 M was the Circuit of the Americas Formula 1 track located just outside the Texas state capital of Austin.

An eight-speed automatic transmission is standard with the X6 M.

In groups of two we were lead out onto COTA’s still-nearly-new asphalt.

Call it a triumph or marketing over common sense, or, if you prefer, bloodlust over prudence.

The seeming incongruity of the X6 M’s kickass-to-kilograms ratio is made possible by the fact that it hoists a 575 horsepower weapon under its hood.