Hear ye! Hear ye!
Ladies and gentlemen, the next-generation BMW X5's "face" has seen the light of day. Well, sort of.
Spy photographers were very sneaky when they captured this crash-test prototype after it had been through battle. As you can see, it appears to have a pop-up hood so in the event of the crash it will literally pop up and an airbag will deploy to protect crash victims.
While that's interesting and all, the real focus here should be on the new and improved look. Note the larger kidney grilles and the headlights, which may be connected to the grille as seen in the all-new 3-Series. It's a bit tough to tell, particularly post crash.
Aside from that, the new X5 doesn't appear to significantly grow in size from the current-gen product.
The camouflage on BMW prototypes usually comes off slowly like a strip tease as prototypes advance from one test stage to the next. But, this time we've spied some parts of the next generation 2014 BMW X5 (codename: F15) in exposed form much earlier than expected.
It looks like an automotive version of the Sci-Fi horror film Predator, but this post crash test X5 prototype actually reveals much - the headlight shape, hood lines, fenders, and the side body character line. Keep in mind that some of the lines and panels you see up front are distorted due to the crash test...
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