The first BMW X3 arrived a little more than three years later.Īccording to Motoring, the third-generation BMW X3 will be unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show three months from now. During the same period, however, the BMW X1, X3, X4, X5, and X6 have combined for 6,790 additional sales, a 14-percent year-over-year improvement.īMW jumped into the SUV game with its first SAV, the X5, in 2000.
Through 2017’s first five months, BMW’s passenger car sales are down 15 percent, a loss of more than 11,000 sales.
market, BMW’s largely South Carolina-built SAVs have proven to be vital components in difficult times for BMW. BMW’s long-awaited Mercedes-Benz GLS challenger, the BMW X7, is a late-2018 arrival.īut the expansion of the BMW SAV lineup is only part of the story, as new versions of the SAVs currently sitting at the heart of BMW’s lineup will arrive in short order, as well. The production BMW X2, due early next year, was previewed by the Concept X2 at 2016’s Paris auto show. Little more than 18 months from now, BMW’s utility vehicle lineup will be dramatically altered, primed to absorb rising SUV demand in an increasingly anti-car market.Īccording to Australia’s Motoring, BMW will expand its entry-level utility vehicle lineup - BMW calls them SAVs - in early 2018 and the top end of the brand’s SAV lineup by late 2018.
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