CORNWALL, N.Y. Meditation enhances clarity. That occurred to me, sitting on the front steps here, staring at the titanium silver vehicle in the driveway. It was the 2008 BMW X6 xDrive35i Sports Activity Coupe. Its ugliness matched the length of its name, a moniker designed to hide a product development error. That was the hard truth of it. I was looking at a rare BMW mistake, an attempt to be all things to all people. It didn't work. The result, poised there in driveway after a 300-mile drive from Northern Virginia, was what could be likened to an expensive Pontiac ... (more)