Good improvement of the horrible actual one.

Source and article here.

Huckfeldt is spot on again ...

yes, tubular Led's

This is by far the ugliest BMW on the market, and will continue to be ugly even with the facelift.

I was told facelifted 5er will also get them - but positioned a bit more diagonally, not so horizontally like on the other BMW models.

I'm dying to see them.

Can someone tell me what the changes are apart from the bumpers i can't see any difference.

Yannis, facelift are usually minor exterior and interioe changes - unless its Audi A4 or some Japanese / Korean car.

Seriously: both bumpers are changes - differently shaped, and partially colored. Grill sightly is different. Headlights got CELIS LED rings (aka "angel eyes"), rear lights got different graphics and CELIS LED strips (aka "neon tubes"). The xDrive + DSC will be upgraded, new more powerful engines, different chasis setup. But the biggest changes will occure in the cabin: much better materials + fit & finish, more wood / alu trims.

Audi A4? What is that? Oh now i remember.... you are talking about the Europe's best selling luxury sedan for last year.

Seriously a lot of people would agree with me that there should be more changes to X3. Both interior (better quality materials) and exterior (less strange lights/grille).

BMW is addressing the complaints about the interior, but exterior is not the issue (like it was at 7er).

The customers do not mind about the exterior styling. Actually they like it. The only issue were the non-painted bumpers in the US, but that was already addressed with MY 2005.

X3 was the best selling SUV in Germany in 2005. BMW sold almost 111,000 (+20%) units of X3 worldwide in 2005.