If U.S. buyers have proven anything, it’s that we love our giant SUVs. BMW may oblige with an even bigger model than its three-row X7.
, especially SUVs. If you’re Chevy, Ford, Lincoln, Cadillac, Nissan, or Toyota, you already have something in your lineup designed to satisfy our insatiable need to go bigger. If you’re BMW, not as much.
For now at least.is currently the largest vehicle BMW sells, but it seems as though the company is open to the idea of building and selling something even bigger than that.In a roundtable discussion in Munich, Germany, last week, senior vice president of BMW brand and product management, Bernd Koerber, acknowledged that the automaker has been exploring the possibility of a model bigger than the X7, but made no guarantees or promises that it would move forward with anything just yet. “It’s still the question of whether that’s the right thing for us to do,” he said. “Probably BMW could do something that will work in that segment. I would also say yes, why not? Because we were very successful X5 X7. That segment is 80, 90 percent U.S. and 10 percent Middle East, more or less. Inherently, we would also like to look into something that works globally. would be something very U.S.-specific, but that there’s a segment there: Yes, we could offer something that would fit the brand and the segment. That does not mean automatically that it will happen.”do very well here. If, and it’s a very big if, an SUV like that were to happen, it might wear the X9 moniker. There’s some online chatter about an X9, but certainly nothing set in stone. But we see where the dealers are coming from. Though the X7 is indeed very large, its third row and trunk space remain on the tight side for the segment. It doesn’t offer Escalade-levels of do-everything-ness, which is generally what U.S. buyers expect from their full-size vehicles.If BMW does move forward with an SUV bigger than the X7, we can’t imagine it would be able to sell it in European markets where smaller roads make massive SUVs less practical. But in the Middle East, China, and here? No problem. It remains to be seen, however, if an even-bigger BMW SUV will be too much of a problem for the automaker to actually build.Get the newest car reviews, hottest auto news, and expert analysis of the latest trends delivered straight to your inbox!I got into cars the way most people do: my dad. Since I was little, it was always something we’d talk about and I think he was stoked to have his kid share his interest. He’d buy me the books, magazines, calendars, and diecast models—everything he could do to encourage a young enthusiast. Eventually, I went to school and got to the point where people start asking you what you want to do with your life. Seeing as cars are what I love and writing is what I enjoy doing, combining the two was the logical next step. This dream job is the only one I’ve ever wanted. Since then, I’ve worked at Road & Track, Jalopnik, Business Insider, The Drive, and now MotorTrend, and made appearances on Jay Leno’s Garage, Good Morning America, The Smoking Tire Podcast, Fusion’s Car vs. America, the Ask a Clean Person podcast, and MotorTrend’s Shift Talkers. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, cooking, and watching the Fast & Furious movies on repeat. Tokyo Drift is the best one.
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