It’s hard to imagine a time when BMW’s portfolio wasn’t chock-full of SUVs. The current lineup starts with the X1 and tops out with the X7, alongside the unconventionally styled iX and XM models. Elsewhere in the BMW Group family, there's the Mini Aceman and Countryman, the Alpina XB7, and the Rolls-Royce Cullinan. For the BMW brand specifically, the original X5 kicked off its SUV craze. But things could’ve turned out vastly different.
