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Among the 299 BMW entries in the MotorJury library, the BMW X2 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2017. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the BMW X2 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt, the Porsche Porsche Taycan — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the BMW X2 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L BMW B38#B38A15M0 / B38 Straight-three engine / I3 turbocharger / turbo / 2.0 L BMW B48 / B48 Straight-four engine / I4 turbo / Petrol engine / Petro; quoted output is 162 kW (X2 xDrive25e); kerb weight is recorded at 1460 -; drive goes through 6-speed manual transmission / manual / 8-speed AWF8F35 / Aisin AW F8F35 automatic transmission / automatic / 7-speed dual clutch transmission / DCT; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, all-wheel-drive (xDrive) / All-wheel drive / Dual-m. Worked together, those figures give roughly 111 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within BMW's own catalogue the BMW X2 sits alongside the BMW 116, the BMW 269, the BMW 3 Series, the BMW 3 Series. The record names the successor = as its predecessor and the sp = uk as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Sebastian Simm. Assembly is recorded at Germany: Regensburg / China: Tiexi, Shenyang (BMW Brilliance / BBA).
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