While BMW has not released its all-new front-wheel drive-biased X1 (pictured here), the automaker is reportedly working on another crossover model. It’s internally called XCite and apparently it’s going to be a Nissan Juke-sized vehicle with either three or five doors and brash styling.
According to Automobile Magazine, the new model’s attributes are as follows: avant-garde, different, urban, unconventional, young, aggressive, wide, low, courageous, anti-establishment, consciously compromised, disrespectful, sensitive, and sensible. It will look as different to the X1 as the Range Rover Evoque does to the Land Rover Discovery Sport.
In other words, the vehicle will sacrifice some practicality in favor of style and promises to be a “surprise-and-delight” model.
No engines larger than a four-cylinder will be available, though all will be turbocharged, and the smaller three-cylinder units will prove the most popular – if they don’t feel strained and underpowered chugging the crossover along.
The source says that this style-minded model aimed squarely at the urban environment is set to hit the market in 2018. First will come the three-door, then the five-door around a year later.
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