Think Star Wars with its Force or the sword-and-planet genre with its fallen civilizations and its twin reliance on magic and tech.

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My test X3 xDrive35i was equipped with a 3.0-liter inline 6-cylinder engine with twin turbochargers, tuned to produce the magic numbers of 300 hp and 300 lb-ft of torque.

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