BMW firm on launching the BMW X4 SAC in India in 2019 - Report
BMW has big expectations from its X series models in India. The company is firm on launching the BMW X4 for the first time in the country in 2019.
The first-gen BMW X4 was never sold in India. In the latest, BMW Group India President Vikram Pawah has reaffirmed the plan to bring the all-new BMW X4 to our shores. With the BMW X4 joining the line-up, BMW expects 50% of its sales to come from its SAVs and SACs.
“What I expect is that with the X3 coming in and with the new X4 next year, clearly we should be looking at 50 per cent of sales coming through the X format,” Mr. Pawah has said. During the last two or three years, X series models have contributed about 42% of sales since the second-gen BMW X1’s launch.
Competing with the Mercedes GLC Coupe, the BMW X4 is a coupe-styled version of the BMW X3. The X4 is 14 mm longer than the X3 and 36 mm lower to the ground. For the feeling of a typical sports coupe, the driver and front passenger in the X4 sit 20 mm lower and the rear passengers sit 28 mm lower in this model. The X4 has a distinctive rear-end, with slimmer, L-shaped LED tail lights as the key design element for differentiation.
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The BMW X4 will likely arrive in India in CKD kits, with the assembly taking place at the BMW Group Plant Chennai. Also, the all-new BMW X3 petrol will go on sale, sometime this year.
[Source: India Today]