BMW put its Le Mans-winning V-12 engine in an X5 in order to prove to the world that a performance SUV was possible. "We called this car 'The Beast,'" van Meel says, "because it was completely ...

The engineering team has been tasked with taming an unruly, all-electric M2 “beast ... as a precursor to the BMW X5 M, one of the first high-performance SUVs to hit the market.