US EditionGreat handling, advanced EV tech: We drive the 2026 BMW iX3
- At Circuito Ascari near Ronda, Marty Padgett drove the BMW iX3, which BMW will introduce as the first Neue Klasse vehicles to American drivers next summer.
- By replacing many black-box ECUs with domain controllers, BMW's Neue Klasse consolidates dozens of ECUs and shrinks response rates from between 10 and 50 milliseconds to 1 millisecond.
- Featuring a NACS port and 400-kW charging, the BMW iX3 pairs a 108-kWh battery with dual electric motors supporting fast charging in 21 minutes.
- Despite heavy batteries, the BMW iX3 showed astonishing grip and agility, logging peak 1.24 g cornering and 1.12 g deceleration in Sport driving mode at Circuito Ascari.
- BMW removed the rotary iDrive controller and now uses Alexa, offers My BMW App remote parking and obstacle-aware maneuvers, and will arrive in summer 2026 with pricing unconfirmed.
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BMW's iX3 is the first model in the hyped Neue Klasse. After a drive on the Ascari circuit, it is clear that the chassis is almost supernatural in its way of conveying road grip. The reason is a fully digital chassis, which can also make the car so self-driving that it is, in principle, two cars.
With the new class, BMW wants to skip an entire generation of vehicles and build the most modern e-cars. A first test drive in the new BMW iX3 xDrive 50 shows how big the progress actually is.
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