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Not sure, who is the competition anyway?
My take for X7 after spending some time in it during a recent bmw event as follows: - great looking exterior - great everything for driver and front passenger - second row and backwards is very cheap and small Comparatively, in the new 7 series, you get premium look and feel anywhere you sit, perhaps more so in the back. Regarding second row seating, my wife's highlander has better, larger and comfier captain seats. So not sure if this will sell all that great depending on what this type of buyer is looking for but if you are some exec who likes to be driven by a driver, x7 is not for you.
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Mercedes GLS Lincoln Navigator Cadillac Escalade There are others but those are the main competition with 3 rows. The highlander is not a competitor by any stretch of the imagination regardless of it's "better, larger and comfier captain seats". |
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I saw one of these in a nicer suburb of Houston recently. It looks extremely imposing, even in the see of Land Rovers there.
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I'm not sure how much this will be cross-shopped with the Escalade. Escalade folks tend to stay in the GMT truck family because they love mediocre badge engineering.
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About the comps you listed, I don't think cadi or Lincoln cost as much as x7 so not sure their people will jump into x7. I guess time will tell if x7 is a success despite lack of class in its rear.
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Second row and backwards is very cheap and small?
Some of this is confusing and makes me think maybe I don't have an X7! The back of the front seats are wrapped in leather, the back seats are patterned and two toned and fully wrapped in leather. The fold down drink holder is beautiful. The windows have automated blinds and seats can be adjusted in so many directions. You can control your own blind, your neighbors blind, and can open/close the skylounge all from your 2nd row seat. If no one is in the 3rd row there is a TON of legroom. In the 3rd row there is a cup holder (leather surrounded), heated seats, a separate sunroof. Oh, and every seat has USB-C connections. This X7 blows my Rovers out of the water on finish behind the drivers row. No dig at that poster, but it makes me wonder what X7 they saw?
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