Scoop: This is The New 2014 BMW X4 Crossover in its Production Form

The funny thing about the BMW X4 is that, even though we knew about it for a long time, our spies hadn't captured a prototype model on the road. Of course, as most of you likely remember, BMW eventually came out with a concept version to preview the sporty crossover at the Shanghai Auto Show in China just this past April.

Well, now we can add the X4 to our long list of upcoming cars that have been spied as pre-production test models. BMW engineers may have slathered a few layers of wraps with swirly shapes, but since there are no fake panels, they don't do much to hide the appearance of the actual X4 that will go on sale in the first half of next year.

To get an idea of what it will look like without the camouflage, the relation of the X4 Concept to the X4 production model is exactly the same as that of the 4-Series Concept to the 2014MY 4-Series Coupe presented about a fortnight ago.

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BMW X4 Heads Out of Photo Studio and Onto Revolving Platform in New Unofficial Video

Studio shots make cars look a certain way and you only get to appreciate a vehicle the first time you actually see it in the metal. Still, with the BMW X4 we have a while to wait for that moment, despite being confirmed for production with minor changes from the concept. Read more »

New Photo Gallery of BMW's Sporty Looking X4 Crossover Concept

While BMW isn't willing to divulge anything new in the way of information about its X4 Concept car other than what it has already told us (we'll give you a summary further down), the Munich brand wants us to get a better view of the study with the release of a fresh gallery comprising more than 30 photos.

These new pictures were published just a few days ahead of the X4 concept study's world premiere at the Auto China 2013 in Shanghai (April 20 to 29).

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BMW Describes New Concept X4 in Video, We Visually Compare it with X6

The star of BMW’s booth at the upcoming Shanghai Auto Show will no doubt be the Concept X4, a pre-production model that reveals how the brand’s second Sports Activity Coupe (SAC) will look like. As with the larger X6 model, BMW wanted to combine the high ground clearance and powerful aspect of an SUV with the dynamic lines and elegant roofline of a coupe. Read more »

BMW Head of Design Karim Habib Explains Brand's Core Values

If you ask me, BMW has done very well in choosing Karim Habib as the coordinating force behind their design department. A BMW Group employee since 1998, he worked in the design department for 10 years, before moving to Mercedes-Benz for almost two years, then rejoining BMW in 2010.

I say they did well in choosing him, because he seems like a very knowledgeable and passionate designer, if we are to judge him from his appearance in the video you see below.

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BMW X4 Concept Unveiled, Enters Production with Minor Changes Next Year [w/Videos]

If consumers want crossovers and SUVs (as all sales charts suggest), why should premium carmakers like BMW disagree? The brand with the roundel logo is keen to capitalize on the growth of this segment, something that is evident from the sales of its X-series models, which now account for one in every four new cars it delivers worldwide.

BMW has split its SUVs into two basic categories, the more mainstream "Sports Activity Vehicles" (SAV), which include the X1, X3 and X5, and the "Sports Activity Coupé" (SAC), which up until now, was represented only by the larger X6.

Today, the Bavarian carmaker previewed its second SAC model in the form of the X4 Concept, a couple of weeks ahead of its world premiere at the Shanghai Auto Show in China on April 21.

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New BMW X4 Concept: First Official Photos Surface Online

This is it; the pre-production version of BMW's next crossover model, the X4, seen in these official photos wearing a concept moniker, which it justifies through the use of some chrome bits, huge alloy wheels and uniquely trimmed bumpers, but other than that, what you see is what you will get when it goes on sale in 2014.

There's no information accompanying the leaked images, but the timing and the fact that the only major international car show coming up this month is the Auto China 2013 in Shanghai from April 21 to 29, means it's our best bet for the world premiere of the new BMW X4 Concept.

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BMW Says New X4 Coming Next Year, Has Received Several Hundred Advanced Orders for i3

The BMW Group, the world's largest premium carmaker, held its annual Accounts Press Conference in Munich on Tuesday, where it forecast unchanged 2013 pretax profit, mainly due to lower sales in Europe and the costs for new model launches, boosting capacity and spending on new fuel-efficient technologies, despite aiming to sell more cars overall. Read more »

BMW Rumored to Debut X4 Sports Activity Coupe at Detroit Motor Show

We were aware that BMW is readying a smaller brother to the X6 since the beginning of the year when the brand's CEO Norbert Reithofer confirmed plans for the X4 while also stating that it will be built at the automaker's Spartanburg plant in the States.

Now we come to hear from Autoweek magazine that the (supposedly) sporty looking crossover will debut in near-production form as a thinly disguised concept at the 2013 Detroit Motor Show in January, before it hits global markets the following year.

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