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Written by Tom Harrison
Forget about Goodwood for a minute feast your eyes on this thing. It"s a BMW X7 pick-up, created by 12 trainees from the company"s body and vehicle mechanics, vehicle mechatronics and technical model construction departments. Based on the six-cylinder X7 xDrive40i an old test car that would otherwise have been sent to the scrapper the road-legal concept took the trainees some 10 months to build. They removed most of the rear bodywork, including the two rearmost seats, and then lengthened the body by 10cm. A 140 to 200cm-long teakwood floor was added, and custom bodywork fabricated. Use of CFRP and 3D printing means the pick-up is an impressive 200kg lighter than a normal X7. Without a bike in the back, obviously.
Date written: 5 Jul 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16229
Forget about Goodwood for a minute feast your eyes on this thing. It"s a BMW X7 pick-up, created by 12 trainees from the company"s body and vehicle mechanics, vehicle mechatronics and technical model construction departments. Based on the six-cylinder X7 xDrive40i an old test car that would otherwise have been sent to the scrapper the road-legal concept took the trainees some 10 months to build. They removed most of the rear bodywork, including the two rearmost seats, and then lengthened the body by 10cm. A 140 to 200cm-long teakwood floor was added, and custom bodywork fabricated. Use of CFRP and 3D printing means the pick-up is an impressive 200kg lighter than a normal X7. Without a bike in the back, obviously.
Date written: 5 Jul 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16229
