Even before it is official debut later this year, images of the brand new BMW X2 have surfaced on the web. The set of images were released by lifestyle blog Highsnobiety and feature an X2 with a unique camouflage wrap. The first official photos already make it clear that the new BMW X2 feels most comfortable in the urban and fashion-conscious city. The actual design cues of the crossover, which is marked with the F39 designation, remain deliberately concealed.
However, it is already clear that the designers have taken numerous features from the X2 study unveiled at the Paris Auto Show in 2016, without major changes in the series car. Particularly striking: the front design, including the reinterpretation of the classic twin kidney. For the first time, the lower part of the two air intakes is designed to be more pronounced than the upper part.
This is a five-door model that, unlike the X4 and X6, the coupe design will not be similar to these, but rather it will be dynamic, elegant and sporty as usual BMWs, with a lower roof line at style of the MINI or Range Rover Evoque.
It shares the UKL1 front-wheel drive platform with the BMW X1 and the new MINI Countryman. The X2 is one of the 23 completely new models we will see on this platform. Likewise, the new X2 will share range of engines from the X1, in gasoline and diesel, with blocks of three and four cylinders turbo with powers between 116 and 231 HP. Also, there will be a version of M Performance with a maximum power of 300 hp baptized as X2 M35i xDrive.
All versions will be front-wheel drive, the all-wheel drive xDrive will be optional, although most can only be combined with an automatic transmission. A six-speed manual transmission will be available for selected models.
Certainly the X2 is one of the X cars expected to make a difference in the overall sales. Priced somewhere between the X1 and X3, the X2 aims to attract new customers to the brand and capitalize on the success of the Range Rover Evoque and its trendy drivers. The X2 will be produced along with the new X1 at the Regensburg factory of BMW in Germany.
I’m noticing a change at BMW. They seem to be doing things a little differently these days – like the M8 GTE racer making an almost simultaneous debut to the street version, an X3 launch with an M version leading and now this. I’m not quite sure what they’re trying to achieve here, as this looks really awkward and unsexy.
Either way, I’m real happy the X2 isn’t just a copy of the X6/X4 shape. It is gonna be pretty!
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So directly from dieselgate to parkinggate?
Really nice, i’m a big fan of the roundels on the c pillar, looking forward to see it on the road !
Don’t forget the 30d engine for specific markets as well, some inside intel for ya ;)
Not possible, since the 30d models are inline-6 and those do not fit in UKL models. :(
What is with BMW designers and the cheap looking plastic on the lower frond end?
its SE model. on M sport that wont be there :)
I know, but they could do better on the ‘regular’ vehicles as well.
i know what you mean i think they just let the SE be more vanilla simple type like not so aggressive etc
Given the amount of curb rash I see, it’s smart. Watched the whole front end clip of a new Ford pull off when someone grazed it.
Wait… a 300 horsepower m performance front wheel drive car? WTF? yuck
Will probably be xDrive, but yeah… :/
Aren’t they doing that with the next Mini JCW?
Wow it looks so much like the concept! :D
Was the concept FWD?
Yes, the concept was UKL-based as well.
How are these “official” photos if they’re shrouded in camouflage? Photos released by BMW would be official photos. These are most definitely unofficial photos.
They are definitely official ones. BMW gave them the car with that wrap.
Apologies…my mistake!
Must be the style – looks like Leo’s auction spaghetti i3, & that went for $100k!
I still don’t understand how this car will be distinguished from the X1 sitting in my driveway. The X4 and X6 are much more distinct from the X3 and X5. This could have been the X1 and nobody would think anything of it.
And that badge on the C pillar? No thanks!
Haven’t seen them in the metal, but the Concept was not as upright boxy, much more aggressive & sporty, without mimicking the SAC roofline. My CS had roundels on the C pillar, it’s tradition, like 507 fender vents on the Z8.
first video of the BMW X2: https://youtu.be/zihTOsEUtlY