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Post by Tim on Jun 4, 2018 14:20:06 GMT
A friend had a brand new one of these on a 24 hour test.
I think the 18d is the lower power 2 litre (diesel) with 150BHP and S Drive means front wheel drive (I think).
It was only a short journey with little chance of the car being driven hard but my impressions of the surroundings were that if you removed the BMW badges you could really be in any brand of small SUV/Crossover thingy. Cloth seats with a short base certainly didn't help and the standard of interior fittings was no better than, say, the 2017 Kia Cee'd GT we were driven in last year. Not sure what the equivalent Koreans/Japanese/French are like for gadgetry but this BMW appeared to not have much.
Not really that impressed by it and wouldn't add it to any list, at least in this form. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 14:31:10 GMT
Is this the same friend whose X5 is all things to all men?!
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Post by Tim on Jun 4, 2018 15:25:30 GMT
God no, that friend would never lower themselves to drive a mere X1!  This friend has a company A4 estate that they will be losing later this year so they're scoping out alternatives. |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 12, 2018 7:46:09 GMT
I had a 118d for a couple of weeks. Very good car, albeit the one I had was fitted with leather seats. The S-drive just means standard rear wheel drive and it had a nice balance to it and decent amount of oomph for what it was.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jun 12, 2018 8:27:19 GMT
I remain spectacularly unimpressed by the boggo spec X1s we have at work. The interior plastics are nothing special at all, the ride is bouncy, the steering and controls feel heavy and they are quite noisy. I'd take practically anything else over an X1, but as it is a BMW we are apparently not allowed to even think this.
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 12, 2018 12:24:05 GMT
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Is that the current shape ones, or the first-gen X1 ?
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