BMW 3 Series Touring 320iX driven

it's at the pointy end of a range that

They're the standard backdrop to your average winter wonderland outside broadcast. Some frozen-to-the-core reporter attempts cheeriness in front of sledging children before copping a snowball to the earhole, while behind him, you, the geeky petrolhead, can clearly identify a rear-wheel-drive BMW flailing amateurishly on a millimetre of ice. Maybe Audi stalks regional TV crews with a purpose-bought 3-series just for such eventualities.

Well, no more. BMW has clearly had enough. Here we have a BMW 320iX, or 320i xDrive as BMW would prefer it to be known. It's at the pointy end of a range that expands in March with the arrival of 4WD saloon and estate versions of the 320d and 330d, plus the 120d hatchback.