宝马继续对X7进行测试，最近谍照记者再次近距离拍到这辆车并拍到了内装照片。从照片看，X7内部让人联想到X3、5系和7系等宝马其他车型。值得注意的是，顺滑的方向盘上布满了按键，后面的数字仪表群以及黑色钢琴漆中控台以及宝马iDrive信息娱乐系统控制钮。中控台布局正如人们所期待的那样，顶部是悬浮式显示屏，底部是整洁的空调和收音机控制键。从新车外观看，X7比X5更大，采用了更具实用性的平坦车顶，车头是硕大双肾格栅，车尾是细窄LED尾灯组，底部是平行的排气尾管。新车整体设计类似ConceptX7iPerformance展示车。预计新车将采用CLAR平台，动力系统包括六缸和八缸涡轮增压引擎，或许某些引擎还取自7系车型，甚至可能会提供插电混动版本。宝马X7内部采用三排座布局，竞争车型包括奔驰GLS和奥迪Q7。宝马透露，该车将于今年晚些时候，很可能是11月份发布，随后将在斯帕腾伯格工厂投产。
BMW X7 Interior Spied As Testing Continues
As BMW continues to test its next SUV in anticipation of a launch later this year, our spy photographers have one again gotten up close and personal with it. The BMW X7 spotted here looks similar to others we’ve spied, though this time we also have a chance to look inside.
The BMW X7 prototype’s cabin recalls the look of new models like the X3, 5 Series, and 7 Series. Note the sleek steering wheel with abundant buttons, digital instrument cluster, assorted piano-black controls on the center console, and BMW’s requisite iDrive infotainment controller knob. The center-stack layout is about what we’d expect, too: display perched at the top, tablet-style, with tidy rows of climate and radio controls lower down.
From the outside, however, this X7 prototype looks just like all the other ones we’ve spied – and like the pre-production models that BMW itself showed off when preparations began at the plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It’s noticeably longer than an X5, with a practical flat roof, giant kidney grilles up front, smart LED taillights, and parallelogram-shaped exhausts peeking out from the lower rear fascia. All told, it looks like the BMW X7 will hew pretty close in terms of design to the Concept X7 iPerformance show car.
We expect that the BMW X7 will ride on a version of the CLAR modular platform also used for the 7 Series and 5 Series. As to powertrains, expect BMW to offer both six- and eight-cylinder units with turbocharging – possibly mirroring the 7 Series engine lineup – with a plug-in hybrid model likely.
The BMW X7 is designed to take on other three-row luxury models like the Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class and Audi Q7. BMW has said that the new SUV will be introduced this year – likely in November – as production begins in Spartanburg.