The next BMW X1 will mark a revolution for the German brand, as it prepares to progress a winning recipe and produce a car aligned with the brand’s wide-reaching electrification strategy. To do this, the X1 will step to an updated version of the current car’s platform, allowing BMW to offer petrol, diesel, plug-in hybrid and fully electric versions of its Audi Q3 rival.
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The X1 is BMW’s second a lot of popular SUV and its fourth best-selling car globally, so this new one really matters at a time of delays, disruption and dwindling deliveries throughout the automotive world.
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Spied many times during its lengthy development programme, the car will make its debut in the second half of this year and go on sale in Britain before 2022 is out. The range’s starting price is set to rise slightly from the £30,555 of the current model, and crucial to unlocking the new X1’s appeal will be a thorough modernisation inside and out, without any major repositioning of the car.
The current X1 is now BMW’s oldest SUV, and only younger than the soon-to-be-axed i3 and about-to-be-replaced 7 series in the firm’s entire passenger-car line-up. As such, there’s plenty to update, while keeping the concept of the X1 relatively unchanged. The new car will still be a compact premium SUV that’s marketed as a a lot more conventional and functional alternative to the sportier-looking X2, which is tipped to be renewed in 2023.
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The interior in particular will step on quite substantially from the current car’s. The next X1 will adopt BMW’s most current iDrive 8 system and ‘curved display’ infotainment suite, consisting of a 10.25-inch digital instrument panel blended with a 10.7-inch central display. The SUV will step away from rotary dial input, though, shifting to a touchscreen-only user interface.
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