BMW X4 With Updated Styling And Equipment

The X4 looks gorgeous and the diesel engine is bonkers! Read on if you still need more reasons to give it attention

- Rohit Paradkar

We recently drove the 2022 BMW X3 and were instantly reminded of what an excellent car it is. But if you (like us) are wowed by the dynamic abilities of the car and don't care so much about the practical aspects of it, then the X4 is likely to entice you more. The X4 shares not only showroom space but also the platform and underpinnings with the X3, so it was only natural that an updated X4 was on its way too. That is the very X4 you see here and boy it looks gorgeous.

They have brought it up to speed with the current design language at BMW, meaning it gets a sleeker-looking front end with revised headlights that have a narrower LED signature. In fact, all lighting elements are LED and unlike the controversial taillights of the X3, the X4's updated styling is bound to find wider appreciation. The SUV-coupe form is a polarising body style, but if you appreciate it, the X4 is one of the best iterations out there and the new one with its sharper styling cues is better still. The X4 has the same drag coefficient as the new X3 -0.29Cd - but the treatment of the facia is all noticeably different between the siblings. You might also remember that I said I would rather have an all-black grille on new age BMW SUVS (especially the ones draped in grey bodywork) and this X4 looks like it was specced just for me (though it isn't, alas). Instead, it is because this is the limited Dark Shadow edition, which also gets blacked-out wheels, window lining, gills and bumper garnish.