The BMW X7 Concept Has Been Leaked, And Its Kidney Grilles Are Obscene
Remember the CSL Hommage concept BMW brought out a few years ago? At the time, we weren’t sure it’d be possible for the company to come up with a more absurd interpretation of its iconic kidney grille, but we’ve been proven rather wrong by this: the new BMW X7 concept.
We’re not supposed to see this car just yet, but thanks to some leaked images that have appeared on Bimmerpost, we’re getting an early look. And my, what big teeth it has.
It previews BMW’s first crack at a ‘Murica-friendly, full size, three-row SUV. As well as the aforementioned nashers - which we’re hoping get toned down a touch for the production version - the X7 also sports a similar ‘gill’ design behind the front arches, echoing a similar arrangement on the current 5-series and 7-series.
There aren’t any details to go along with the images just yet, but we can be pretty sure this buck-toothed, enormo-SUV is a plug-in hybrid. The eagle-eyed among you probably spotted the giveaways: there are ‘i’ and ‘eDrive’ badges, what looks like a charging flap, plus you might have also clocked the word ‘hybrid’ on the digital instrument cluster (below).
Along with the inevitable hybrid model, the production version should also receive the usual range of 3.0-litre straight-six diesels and petrols, a V8 and maybe even the M760Li’s 6.6-litre V12. Well, it’d be rude not to pop it in there…
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Just leaving this here.
Looks like a fake car in a video game
Doesn’t look too bad :D We’re just used to the kidney grille. But with this concept it kinda got out of hand :D
that Z4 is dope
Really
It’s future is waiting
Wot
Kind of weirdly odd if not ugly if you ask me
But the rear is incredible though
So they’re bringing back the tall kidneys?
Uuugly
This must be the 5th car this month we weren’t supposed to see
The last BMW I had was ‘07 Z4 M Coupe and I thought the front of that incredible car was weird and now… this. It’s like their designers are competing to see who can repel more customers from the brand. Save the 6 series Grand Coupe, everything else in their lineup are either ugly or boring.
The kidneys are big to remind ordinary peasants that they’ll need to sell theirs in order to buy an X7.