The 2026 BMW iX is a best-case-scenario EV

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BMW has been connected a rotation lately, selling much EVs successful North America than astir of its competitors, including chap luxury brands similar Mercedes and Audi. But portion astir of the automaker's lineup is soaring, its flagship iX SUV has been struggling to find an audience. BMW lone sold 15,383 iX vehicles successful 2024, down 11 percent twelvemonth implicit year. Sales numbers ticked up somewhat successful the archetypal quarter, but aft being connected the marketplace since 2022, the iX is successful request of an upgrade.

With those struggles successful mind, BMW announced the refreshed 2026 iX earlier this year, which takes a batch of the champion parts of the electrical SUV and dials them up a notch. The artillery is somewhat larger, the scope is longer, the tech is flashier, the interior is much luxurious, and the kidney grille is adjacent much successful your look than ever before. This bucktooted SUV is truthful blessed to beryllium getting a makeover that it's positively grinning from receptor to ear.

I got a accidental to thrust the updated iX - erstwhile connected a media thrust done upstate New York and past again implicit a play successful suburban New Jersey - and it's wide that it remains a near-perfect luxury EV with immoderate noteworthy downsides.