BMW X4 next year is a new compact SUV

By (Xinhua Takasugi) With the X1 concept cars debut, the BMW X family increasingly stronger next year, BMW will launch a new model X4.

BMW will be the next major new R amp; D focus on the compact SUV will be named SAV (SportActivityVehicle), the new BMW models X4 is such a case.

BMW X4 design inspiration from the X6, the use of five cross-border car slipped back design. Just as the latter shared with the X5, like 5-Series platform, X4 and X3 is also the same from a 3 Series platform. Foreign media prediction, X4 than X3 shorten length of about 50 millimeters, 100 millimeters to reduce the car wide. BMW X4 will be shared with the X3 power system, but the engine output may be adjusted higher. X4 will be expected to carry 163-horsepower 2.0-liter gasoline engine and 306 horsepower 3.0-liter turbocharged gasoline engine, as well as top-level assembly paragraph 4.0 liters V8 gasoline engine. The 177-horsepower 2.0 liters and 231 horsepower 3.0-liter diesel engine will both appear in the European version of the model, the transmission will have manual and 6-speed automatic two to choose from. And a new generation of four-wheel-drive system, active steering, automatic roll stabilization system, adjustable shock absorbers, night vision, head-up display and remote control lighting aids, such as the Advanced Configuration X5 will also appear in the X4.

BMW X4 will be in the United States of Southern Californias Spartanburg factory production, and will be listed in the world. The next two years, BMW X1 volume production models will be marketed in Europe and North America, landing in 2010; at the same time in 2010 X3 will usher in a new generation, X5 will also launch a new diesel version xDrive35d, and X6 section of the medium-term reform will be carried out in 2012.