2015 BMW X3: 1st Look
The flurry of SUV announcements came with few different details, notably on the new X7, that BMW referred to as "another all-new, larger X model." The auto maker same it plans to make all X7s in Spartanburg, and can export them from there for sales overseas. Autoweek reports the SUV can seat up to seven occupants in 3 rows; BMW can build it off associate degree extended-wheelbase version of the recently redesigned X5 platform, which can underpin successive X6 still. The X7 can vie with the Mercedes-Benz GL-Class, Infiniti QX80 and Cadillac Escalade. Autoweek says it'll provide inline-six and V-8 engines. It ought to even have a plug-in hybrid drivetrain kind of like the one within the forthcoming X5 plug-in, that BMW previewed within the X5 construct eDrive at the 2013 urban center Motor Show.
As a part of a $1 billion investment over successive 2 years, the auto maker says it'll expand capability at the 20-year-old plant by fifty p.c, to 450,000 total cars from this three hundred,000 a year. BMW shoppers here should not expect to induce all of these, though: The auto maker says it exports around seventy p.c of its Spartanburg production every year.
