We know kinda sorta what the all-new, first-ever BMW X2 Sports Activity Coupe will look like whenever BMW decides to launch it, since the company showed us a BMW X2 Concept last September at the Paris Auto Show and the Nürburgring has had a few camouflaged test vehicles photographed there. Still, concept and camouflage don't always translate to production. Until BMW reveals the actual production X2, we will still be guessing how it might look.
Those guesses may have become slightly more educated, however, since a number of drawings reportedly submitted in February 2017 to the Japanese patent office have come to light. They could represent something closer to a production X2.
Some of the detailed features portrayed on these drawings are different from the X2 Concept, and make more sense for a production vehicle. For example, the side-view mirrors in the drawing a much more production BMW-like than the skinny ones on the concept.
Instead of the flush door handles on the concept, the patent drawings show pretty much standard BMW handles. Where the concept has only huge air scoops, the patent drawing show more modest scoops with the foglights that the concept lack.
The drawings reveal more sedate exhaust tips rather then those on the X2 Concept, which look like they would be more at home on a Chuck Barris Batmobile than a BMW crossover.
The taillights on the drawings are taller and presumably more visible than those on the concept.
As glorious as the BMW X2 Concept is, the reality of selling cars dictate less glitz and more resemblance to the BMW X1 with which it will share a design history as well as components.
We hope that the patent drawings will not have to tide us over for long. The Frankfurt International Auto Show is only two months away and we beg BMW to take pity on BMW fanatics everywhere and show us a bunch of new cars—including the X2.—Scott Blazey
[Photos: Japan Patent Office via Autoblog.nl.]
