autoevolution 22 Apr 2021, 11:07 UTC ·
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The first to take advantage of this liberty was BMW when it introduced the X6 back in 2008, after first revealing it as a concept one year before. People must have shaken their heads at the sight of it, saying, why do these manufacturers even bother to come up with such pointless concepts when they re never going to enter production, or at least that s what a normal reaction would have been.
But BMW had other plans, so the whole SUV coupe (or SAV, as the Bavarians call these vehicles) segment was created. It actually took a while for others to join in, partly because they were behind in their development, but also (we would suspect) because they didn t really think there was much market to be had there.