GermanyBMW is testing the second generation of its largest SUV. A camouflaged X7 prototype, internally coded G67, has been filmed lapping the Nurburgring, and the car carries four exhaust tips. On a BMW that normally means a V8, which would make this the M60 version of a range BMW has confirmed for a 2027 debut. BMW has published no specifications. The engine is expected to be the 4.4-litre twin-turbo, and no output has been stated for it in this car, so any figure quoted today is the outgoing model’s.
The iX7 joins the range
For the first time the X7 name gains a battery-electric sibling, the iX7, coded G69. Reports put it on the same CLAR architecture as the combustion car, with the two sharing one body structure from launch and being built alongside each other, rather than the arrangement BMW used with the 7 Series, where the electric i7 arrived as a separate product line on a shared platform.
What the iX7 is reported to take from Neue Klasse is the hardware rather than the platform: the next-generation batteries and motors that arrived with the iX3. None of it has been confirmed by BMW, which has not announced the model at all.
Neue Klasse cabin, split headlights outside
The prototypes point to the same interior BMW is rolling out across the range: iDrive X, and Panoramic Vision, the strip of information projected across the base of the windscreen in place of an instrument cluster. Flush door handles are visible on the test cars, shared with the new X5. The split headlights and the large upright grille stay, so the car is still recognisable as an X7 from either end.
Production continues at Spartanburg in South Carolina, where every X7 has been built since 2018 and where the new X5 was revealed. The reveal is expected in 2027, with series production reported for the second half of that year.
The fifth-generation BMW X5 (G65) drops the third-row seat and split tailgate, adopts Neue Klasse styling and the new iDrive X interior, and offers petrol, diesel and plug-in hybrid power ahead of the electric iX5. The M60e plug-in flagship combines 603 hp with a 98 km WLTP electric range.
The BMW iX3 is the first series-production car on the Neue Klasse platform, an electric SUV with an 800-volt system, a 108.7 kWh battery and up to 805 km of WLTP range. The launch 50 xDrive uses two motors for 469 hp and 645 Nm, reaching 100 km/h in 4.9 seconds. Peak DC charging is 400 kW, enough for 10 to 80 percent in about 21 minutes. US pricing starts at $61,500 plus destination, with deliveries there from September 2026.
The BMW i3 revives a familiar nameplate for an all-new Neue Klasse electric sedan built on BMW's second EV-specific platform. The i3 50 xDrive makes 463 hp with an 800V architecture, up to 912 km of WLTP range, and 400 kW DC charging. Order books opened in Germany from EUR 65,900; deliveries start in fall 2026, with a stretched-wheelbase version for China following later.
