Someone call Weight Watchers: BMW is doubling down on lardy SUVs

BMW has released its very long and generally quite dry Quarterly Statement to review the first part of 2025. If we’re honest, we were distracted by an E36 M3 video on YouTube before we’d even got halfway through the report, but we did manage to spot that BMW has committed to building new generations of the X5 and X7 SUVs.

“Despite the ongoing product offensive and intensive preparations for the launch of the first Neue Klasse models, research and development expenditure remained in line with last year’s level and was primarily related to the cross-series digitalisation and electrification of the vehicle fleet,” reads the statement. Told you it was dry.