BIG AND BETTER

The BMW X7 receives a mid-life refresh and is considerably improved as a result

- Pablo Chaterji

If you say you want to buy a BMW X7, you’re most certainly maintaining a healthy bank balance and most probably looking to haul your six-to-seven-strong family around in a high degree of comfort. Chances are that you’re also partial to having a bit of fun with your ultra-luxe people-mover every now and then, because why else would you pick a BMW over its competition? Granted that there are other luxury barges vying for your attention in today’s market, but BMW’s reputation for making the ultimate driving machines (even if they’re enormous) has been hard-earned, and that fact makes well-heeled customers return to the triple-propeller fold-time and again. 

Typically BMW in the way it really involves the driver to a degree not expected in something so large

As for me, my bank balance isn’t the world’s most robust, and I never got around to starting a family, but I do like having fun with cars — and I can confirm that the mid-life-refresh BMW X7 can be a tonne of fun (well, more like two tonnes, but let’s not split hairs).

A facelift it may be, but the interior of the updated X7 feels more like generational jump ahead