The facelifted BMW X7 receives a bold new front end featuring a split-headlight design and a raft of detailed changes, including an upgraded interior with updated technology and new mild-hybrid petrol and diesel engines.
The 2022 model, unveiled ahead of a start to UK sales in August, arrives three and a half years after the Audi Q8 and Mercedes GLS rival first went into production at BMW’s Spartanburg plant in the US.
The distinctive split-headlight treatment on the updated X7 is part of a new design strategy for BMW. In the future, the German brand plans to provide each of its model lines with its own unique look, with differing models, whether saloon, estate or SUV, set to share common design elements.
On the facelifted X7, the upper LED light elements house the daytime running lights and indicators. The more heavily recessed LED units located in the lower section feature low- and high-beam projectors offering adaptive matrix properties.
The front bumper has also been heavily reworked, with new vertical air ducts integrated into the outer section for the cooling of the front brakes. The lower air ducts have also been redesigned, gaining new aluminium-look elements.
As on the recently unveiled facelifted BMW 8 Series, the X7 also features Iconic Glow cascade lighting for its front grille. It comes as standard on the new range-topping M60i xDrive and is offered as an option on other variants.
At the rear end, the tail-lights receive greater sculpting and new-look LED graphics. The chrome bar integrated between them has also been lightly modified.
As before, buyers can specify an M Sport styling package, which mimics the styling of the new M60i xDrive and brings 21in alloy wheels (up from 20in as standard).
Together with newly designed 22in wheels, the facelifted X7 is the first BMW to offer optional 23in wheels.
Inside, the hooded instrument panel and central display make way for a new curved display that's similar in look to that in the new BMW iX. It combines a 12.3in display for the instruments and a 14.9in display for the infotainment functions in a single unit offering touch control and running BMW’s eighth-generation operating system.
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Am I the only one who likes this update? Pretty it is not, but it has presence. It is an improvement on what it was before.
That dashboard looks huge!, your quite some distance from the base of the Windscreen.
Elsewhere it's being reported that this new look front end / headlamp arrangement will feature on the new 7 series too. Sorry to be the bearer of more bad news.