BMW X3

BMW’s latest recall concerns an interior cargo rail that may detach in more than 291,000 X3 SUVs.

The X3 is wholly redesigned for the 2025 model year with bold new front-end styling and reworked powertrains.

These cars offer panoramic moonroofs or sunroofs either as standard or optional equipment for 2024.

The 71 vehicles that qualified for the awards for 2024 is an increase of 23 over 2023, when stricter requirements began to take effect.

Having received a thorough redesign for the 2022 model year followed by fine-tuning tweaks for 2023, BMW’s luxury compact SUV twins enter 2024 unchanged.

IIHS announced that three model-year 2023 and 2024 mid-size luxury SUVs offer good crash protection for front and backseat occupants in the agency’s updated moderate overlap front crash test, but several others scored acceptable, marginal and poor.

BMW is recalling certain vehicles over bolts that may loosen or break over time. The issue affects more than 155,600 vehicles.

Even among Top Safety Pick+ winners, the 2023 X3 stands out, earning the top grades (good or superior) in all required tests, including those in which a second-tier rating would have qualified it.

The 2022 X3 M Competition got a boost in torque from its 503-horsepower inline-six engine that results in quicker acceleration and response.

Gone for the 2023 X3 is the Driving Assistance Professional Package, though BMW says it’s “currently” unavailable, leaving open the possibility of its return via an over-the-air update.