In the past year, BMW has achieved global sales of 2,521,525 units, an increase of 8.4% year-on-year, surpassing Mercedes-Benz to become the world's luxury brand sales champion. I will not be surprised that BMW will achieve such results, after all, in the current automobile market, the main consumer force has gradually become younger, and the economic strength of the Chinese people is still good, and there are more and more people who are willing to buy luxury cars. In our domestic automobile market, BMW's positioning is much younger than Mercedes-Benz, BMW's model appearance is young, sporty, and excellent handling, these aspects are generally better than Mercedes-Benz's models, and because of this, BMW also achieved cumulative sales of 846,237 vehicles in China last year, an increase of 8.9% year-on-year. It is worth mentioning that BMW, which achieved good results last year, is now catching up with Mercedes-Benz and Audi, taking the lead in launching a domestically produced medium- and large-sized SUV, that is, the BMW X5L officially launched in March this year.
Compared with the imported X5, the localization of the X5 not only reduces the threshold for entry, but also lengthens the wheelbase, which is more in line with the needs of the Chinese people, so many people have also expressed their recognition after seeing the product strength of the domestic X5. In fact, in the same month of the domestic X5L listing, BMW also released a mid-term redesign of the imported X7, to know that the X7 positioned in the large SUV market, is BMW's SUV façade, BMW will make what changes to the new X7? Let's take a look.
After all, it is a mid-term revamp, and the X7's changes in the appearance part are not small. Like the front part, the double kidney grille decorated with silver decorative strips seems to be slightly increased in size, the height seems to have increased, and inside the grille, the lighting function is also designed, when the vehicle stops and opens the door, the lighting can present a dazzling light curtain grille, and the BMW X7 luminous grille is fully recognizable at night. The grille below is still flat, and the ends are also decorated with silver fangs, which looks quite tough overall. On both sides of the upper grille, you can also see the distinguished split headlights, of which the LED daytime driving and turn signals are integrated, the light strip is double-inverted "7" shape, and the lower square shape of the headlights, which should be the same as the current X7, are composed of LED low beam lights and laser high beams.
The lines on the side of the body are still quite sharp, the window is decorated with slender silver decorative strips, and on the side of the front wheel eyebrow, you can also see the silver decorative strips in the shape of "L", 23-inch multi-spoke wheels, which are more imposing to look at. The rear of the car is equipped with an irregular headlight in the middle, inlaid with a through-type slender silver decorative strip, and the through-waist line is also engraved under the tailgate, combined with the two exhaust ports on both sides, the whole design does improve the sense of stability of the rear, but also adds a sporty atmosphere.
Although a lot of black elements are retained in the car, there are also many bright color elements, which makes the brightness and warmth in the car still good. The large size of the three-frame multi-functional steering wheel, a large area of silver decorative strip decoration, the surface of the center console is wrapped in black leather, the front and the central aisle, the use of wooden decorative panel decoration, air conditioning control panel and the air conditioning outlet of the co-pilot, but also equipped with a long LED ambient light bar, arrow-shaped ambience lights, up to 15 colors, the overall indeed creates a luxurious visual effect. And in the front of the steering wheel, you can also see the 12.3 inches + 14.9 inches of dual screen, may be because of the built-in iDrive 8 operating system, the instrument screen and the interface of the center console mechanical atmosphere are relatively thick, the lower gearbox console, equipped with a large size control panel, due to the cancellation of the chicken leg block, but also make this part of the design more regular.
Compared with the current X7, the size of the new X7 has not changed much, the length is still close to 5 meters 2, the width is 2 meters, and the layout of 6/7 seats is provided. The seats are made of BMW Individual Merion leather in two-tone fabrics, with the front seats with leg and waist rests, ventilation, heating and memory to relieve fatigue from long drives. The second row of seats also provides electric adjustment, a more distinctive design, should belong to the headrest of the detachable suede headrest, the third row of seat surface pattern, color and the first few rows of not much difference, and the seat back also supports reclining, can be the volume of 326L of the conventional trunk can be expanded to 2120L.
As for power, the overseas version of the X7 xDrive 40i is equipped with a 3.0T six-cylinder engine, supplemented by a 48V light hybrid system, matching the ZF 8AT transmission, bringing a maximum power of 380 horsepower, while the M60i xDrive will be equipped with a V8 engine, bringing a maximum power of 530 horsepower, if not unexpectedly, xDrive 40 and M60i xDrive will be equipped with a four-wheel drive system, and equipped with air suspension, making xDrive The 4000 speedup is only 5.8 seconds, compared with the zero hundred speed of the current X7 xDrive 40, the new X7 xDrive 40 has improved by 0.3 seconds. In general, the new X7 on the basis of the current X7, the strength is still not small degree of improvement, even Audi is more good at technology, Mercedes-Benz is more good at comfort, in the new X7, can be vaguely perceived. It seems that BMW is also real this time.