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I'm Wayne Cunningham here at the 2014 New York Auto Show where BMW has just launched the new x4 this is actually an entirely new model in the BMW lineup and it kind of follows the x6 in the whole X lineup the x3 and x5 have very traditional SUV like characteristics whereas the x6 has that cool coupe like design and the x4 has that as well but it reads a lot differently where the x6 is kind of a bad-boy car and has bad-boy swagger this one has a little more utility feeling to it when I look at the the high roof line in over the driver's seat it looks kind of comfortable yeah it slants back towards the rear but it feels more utility more something you can strap your bicycles to the back on and take out camping or something like that then a canyon Carver race car we do have a fairly high ride here this is sort of a characteristically X cars where there's a lot of space between the defender and the wheel so that that hits it some off-road capability and of course this car will come standard with all-wheel-drive there's also going to be two engine options for the u.s. one is a turbocharged four-cylinder engine the other is a turbocharged 6-cylinder engine 3 litre that six cylinder will get you 300 horsepower the 4-cylinder 240 horsepower these are fairly standard engines in BMWs lineup both of these will be mated to an 8-speed automatic transmission and we get a lot of the same cabin tech that BMW uses in their cars as well there's the new I drive system the latest version of it which has an embedded touchpad in the main dial and we have maps on a hard drive and plus a data connection they'll get you Google search results for your navigation there's also an app integration with the BMW connected app on your smartphone and there's a fairly new feature I've seen it at another car it's called the driving assistant and the Select alerts you if there's really curvy roads ahead or a sudden slow down in the speed limit BMW x4 will be available later this year and will be built exclusively at the South Carolina Spartanburg plant so this will be an american-made car I'm Wayne Cunningham here with the BMW explore at the New York Auto Show