The long awaited BMW X7 flagship SUV is due in 2018, as BMW has now tipped. Speaking at the New York Auto Show last week, BMW sales and marketing director Ian Robertson said that the X7 "won't arrive this year or next, but it's well through the development phases."
As for styling? The best we have to go off of right now is a teaser image released by BMW in a recent presentation (image above) and the recent words of Ian Robertson who also revealed this at the NY Auto Show: "There’s very little resemblance to the X5, so it's not an extended wheelbase X5. It’s very different – we wanted it to have its own identity."
As the flagship SUV in BMW's lineup, the X7 will also be offered in an even higher luxury version. "We will make a higher luxury version of it as well. So in the same way as you take a 7 Series and you bring in the Individual bespoke service as with Rolls Royce," says Robertson.
When the seven seater X7 comes to market in 2018, it will be produced at the U.S. Spartanburg plant.
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