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On Valentine's Day, BMW presented the second generation X4. Today we know which amounts are written on the price tags.

Those who visit the BMW dealer from July 14 should be able to step into the brand-new second generation X4. BMW now lets you know for what amounts the car changes owner.

The starting price of the new X4 is € 62,995. For that amount you get handed the keys of the 184 hp and 290 Nm strong xDrive20i.

The 252 hp and 350 Nm strong xDrive30i has a starting price of € 75.595 and for the 190 hp and 400 Nm strong xDrive20d BMW asks € 71.995.

The xDrive25d, which is 231 hp and 500 Nm strong, is allowed from € 78.995. Diesel bar M40d, with 326 hp and 680 Nm under the hood, has a base price of € 97,695.

This summer BMW is adding the M4 M40i and the xDrive30d to the delivery range.

Toyota Motor Europe has a good first quarter. In the first quarter of this year, the company sold 4 percent more cars than in the same period last year.

In the first three months of this year, Toyota Motor Europe sold 280,300 new cars on our continent. This concerns models from both Lexus and Toyota.

That number is 4 percent above the number of cars that the brands sold in Europe in the first quarter of 2017. As a result, the market share of Toyota and Lexus increased by 0.1 percentage point to 5.1 percent.

Toyota itself sold 261,700 cars in Europe of which 113,100 were Hybrid. The remaining 18,600 units, of which 12,400 were Hybrid, are attributable to Lexus.

In Western Europe, 53 percent of all Toyota's sold was a hybrid. At Lexus, that percentage is even at 98 percent. In Eastern Europe, these percentages are respectively 13 and 6 percent.

Toyota and Lexus are specialized in hybrid models and that means that an increasing part of the portfolio consists of cars that can only be delivered with a hybrid powertrain or where that is in any case an option.

In the first quarter of this year 125,400 Hybrids found a new owner, 18 percent more than in the same period last year. The hybrids account for 45 percent of the total sales of Toyota Motor Europe.

Success numbers at Toyota are the Yaris (65,400 pieces), the C-HR (36,500 pieces) and the Auris (33,800 pieces). At Lexus, the NX (7,900 units) the RX (3,900 units) and the CT (2,400 units) were the most popular models.

Porsche sold more cars in the first quarter of the year, partly as a result of the economic recovery.

Worldwide sales increased by 6 percent to more than 63,000 units, as Volkswagen's luxury brand announced.

The United States was the most important growth market for Porsche, which sold a tenth more cars across the Atlantic.

As far as models are concerned, the Panamera, among other things due to the hybrid versions, and the well-known 911 were the biggest drivers for higher sales figures.

Porsche expects the increase to continue this year, according to driver Detlev von Platen.

According to him, the brand has a market share of 0.3 percent. The brand thus fulfills its objective to remain 'exclusive'.