The new BMW X3 is coming in a few weeks.
Over the past two decades, virtually every automaker has been duking it out in the compact crossover segment as models like the BMW X3 prove explosively popular. Now, the 2025 BMW X3 aims to take the brand’s best-seller into another generation and the automaker teased a bit of what’s coming down the pipeline.
These official shots still show the car pretty much covered grille-to-tailgate in camouflage, but the car’s lineage is unmistakable. There’s a prominent kidney grille and new headlight design, though the new X3 still looks more or less like what you’d expect the Munich automaker to produce. The fourth-generation model still looks like your typical BMW, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing (why change up the formula too much if it works, right?).
While the company hasn’t yet divulged technical specs, it did share a few nuggets of information. Specifically, the new model is finishing up development testing of its chassis control and driver assistance systems in southern France, after trotting the globe to conduct extensive hot and cold-weather testing elsewhere. BMW promises this new model aims to “demonstrate superior handling in every situation” through its testing regimen.
One 2025 BMW X3 number the company shared with its announcement this week is a lower 0.27 drag coefficient, showing some evolution over the last model’s 0.29 figure. This new model also features a wider track, BMW says, and reduced lift at the rear axle. Like before, adaptive suspension will be available on some models, but engineers have made this new car more rigid and focused on improving stability across the lineup over previous generations.
Most of the new X3’s interior is camouflaged as well. However, what we can see looks fairly similar to the brand’s other revamps. There’s a new, dual-screen cluster and infotainment design, and that system will run the company’s latest iDrive version. The new car will also “offer an expanded selection of systems for automated driving and parking compared to the current model,” according to BMW’s official statement.
The 2025 BMW X3 will still launch with a range of powertrains for global markets. Over here, though, we’ll most likely continue to get a turbocharged four-cylinder gas engine and a more potent six-cylinder version, as well as a plug-in hybrid. We may even finally get the iX3 as an electric version, though it remains to be seen whether it will look like its internal combustion counterparts, or take on Neue Klasse-like styling to set it apart from the gas models.
Whatever BMW does have in store for the new X3, we’ll find out much more in the next few weeks.
