I would just say no to that render. To reflect market segment and demand. X4 will be announced as a 5dr first. A 3dr will follow later. Porsche's Cajun will be a five dr first and then a 3dr. Besides you know how it will work anyway especially the outline which will follow the classic coupe shape of the X6 the details you can extend from the X3. X4 is actually a no-brainer because it shares its modular architecture with the X3 allowing an existing model to be spun off and be highly profitable. Here is another example of an X4. But like everything gone before some render artists have now caught F30itis. Some elements ring true but not the front.
So they reckon the X4 will be a clone of the X6 only slightly smaller? Get it right and it could well steal sales from not only the X3 but the 3 series saloon and coupe too.
..and bring in equal or greater profit than each of those models. Better to do it yourself than have your competitors do it for you. Besides, it's clear BMW won't be playing the sales-numbers game with the 3er anymore since the Coupe, Convertible and GranCoupe will be under the 4er family now. Also, add an even more profitable X4M model down the track, and it makes perfect cents.
This one is a bit more realistic especially how the new signature three-dimensional grille and connecting headlight shape will meet. The roofline although highly dramatic is very similar aswell. BMW have investigated customer demands for the X4 and the most wanted demand is to have a smaller X6. What is interesting is that immediately after the X4 , BMW will introduce the next X6 model. Given that the X4 is expected to arrive on the market before competitors from Audi and Mercedes-Benz But after the Porsche Macan. BMW are wasting no time and have started initial development on the flagship X4M another potential volume M model as a more accessible compact X6M aimed at customers who cannot reach the financial levels of the BMW X6M. With the powertrain borrowed from the forthcoming M3, BMW M. are aiming to make sure that the X4M performs as well as the M3 dynamically and also with the latest development of BMW's torque vectoring control which for the X4M and X6M will receive an engineering work over from the M. Division in order to make the car highly communicative on the road. Just as the X6 concept laid the foundations for a production model a few months later first appearing at the IAA in Frankfurt in September 2007. BMW will showcase a Concept of the X4 at the IAA in September 2013, amongst other premieres ahead of a 2014 launch. Prototypes of the X4 in camouflage are about to hit the streets of Germany and then globally. As BMW initiates an intensive development programme to make sure the X4 is a very thorough competitor in a potentially high-growth segment.
