BMW teast X7

BMW pulls one of these days the cloth of the X7, the big brother of the X5, which is now already in the picture.

To be honest, the appearance of the new X7 is absolutely no surprise. In september 2017, presented the BMW Concept iPerformance, a study model with a largely production-ready carriage. At the beginning of August patentschetsen of the production version of the X7 showed, images that no piece of metal on the imagination desired.

BMW start this year with the production of the X7 in the North American Spartanburg, the factory where the brand is also the X5 produces. BMW hopes that the X7 is a more appropriate response than the X5 to cars like the Land Rover Range Rover and Mercedes-Benz GLS-class. This of course makes the X7 to use the modular CLAR platform, a base that recently the 3-series was released, but this has already been applied to the X5 and 5-series.

The Concept X7 was equipped with a plug-in hybrid powertrain. It is located in the line of expectation that such a powertrain is also in the production version appears. Put in any case, the coming of the six-cylinder petrol and diesel engines.

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