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Originally Posted by advantage20
Copying... are you guys serious? The X6 opened a new niche segment which has proven a successful gamble, Mercedes only naturally followed up the general idea (= SUV with coup-like raking roofline) while still giving it a pretty different interpretation as we can see on the profile.
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I agree that the big-3 in Germany all copy each other, only tentatively forge a new market on their own, and hastily stumble over each other to follow when someone else establishes a new segment.
In this case, however, I think the credit goes to Infiniti for establishing the sporty coupe-like SUV with the introduction of the FX in 2003, five years before BMW introduced the X6.
I don't know that BMW has introduced a new market segment in over 10 years.