BMW reveals X7 pickup truck
No, this is not a late April Fools’ Day prank. BMW has truly channeled the previous Cadillac Escalade EXT for a pickup truck primarily based on the X7 full-size luxurious SUV.
We’ll level out right away that the X7 Decide-up, because it’s referred to, is not production-bound. It is a one-off idea to tease guests throughout this weekend’s BMW Motorrad Days bike meet in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, therefore the BMW F 850 GS within the rear.
It additionally served as a problem for college kids collaborating within the BMW Group Vocational Coaching program. Working with BMW’s idea automobile division, a gaggle of scholars primarily based in Munich helped to create the X7 Decide-up in simply ten months.
BMW X7 Decide-up idea
By ripping out the X7’s third-row seats and changing the tailgate with a mattress, the scholars managed to cut back weight by as a lot as 440 kilos. Using carbon fiber-reinforced plastic additionally helped to maintain weight down. The mattress stretches near 80 inches with the tailgate lowered and is lined in teak wooden. A honey-colored end for the wooden, coupled with the darkish blue exterior, was impressed by luxurious sport yachts.
The donor X7 was a pre-production prototype that usually would have been scrapped. It is an X7 xDrive40i, which means there is a three.Zero-liter turbocharged inline-6 underneath the hood rated at 335 horsepower and 330 pound-feet of torque.
BMW has constructed a handful of pickup truck ideas prior to now, although it has no plans to comply with the route of arch rival Mercedes-Benz and launch an opulent pickup of its personal.
