Replaced our 2016 X1 with a low mile 2015 X1
My Mother In Law passed this year and we bought her 2015 fully loaded X1. The little old lady had only put on 30 K miles. We sold our 2016 BMW X1 back to the dealer we bought it with 115 K miles so got the low miles 2015 at a good price. It is wonderful and very fun to drive . My MIL bragged it up all the time. The 2015 is a very small SUV more like a station wagon. Very agile and plenty fast. The ride is sporty, you feel the road, but the 2015 is quieter than our 2016 was perhaps from the lower profile. It is a sports car hiding as a small SUV. We love it. Once you go Beemer you can't go back.
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Sports car delightful driving in an SUV!
Bought the base X1 sdrive for the road mileage...and to my surprise, I find that I am driving the X1 more than the 540i...it is a comfortable, sporty SUV that handles almost like the 3 series sedans I have owned...perfect for my rental real estate business...chic enough to haul clients and SUV enough to haul rental supplies.
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- sDrive28i 4dr SUVMSRP: $8,995397 mi away
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Great SUV
The value of this car for the price paid is great. I absolutely love the sunroof, leather seats and heated front and passenger seat. The gas mileage is great for this fun car. I am getting average of 25.7 mpg. I rarely drive on highways because my work is close by and I take side roads.
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Not happy
Number of things that bother me. 1. front door handles will pinch the fire out of your fingers if you are not careful. 2. after 600 miles the car only gets 18.2 mpg in Dallas traffic. 8 miles below what they say it should get. 3. not much of a pickup 4. wheel base porpoises a lot. UPDATE ON 3/8/2016 - MPG is still crappy for this type of vehicle , plus what is reported by BMW. Front door handles are poorly designed. Will really pinch you, if not careful. Now have about 1700 miles on automobile. Would not buy one again. Just had interesting experience on this vehicle on 6/25/16. Had nail in left rear tire, and it could not repaired. Found out that there are 3 run flat tires which cannot be repaired and you have to buy a new one. The BMW X1 uses Pirelli, and that is one of the 3. Be sure, before you buy, to find if your run flats can be repaired. Very important. Update on 6/28/17 - still not happy with gas mileage, as advertised. yesterday, it 17.2 for a tank of gasoline.
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My $600 phone is easy to use $39,000 car is not
The car handles well and really shines on a 2 lane highway. Lags between 0-5 mph which is mildly annoying but otherwise is OK. I like the gas mileage and it is comfortable in the driver's seat. The problems: 1. Navigation - slow to acquire satellites and then 5 minutes later will alter your route based on traffic, this is sometimes too late to take a better route. My phone is much better. Also, if you decide to go a different route the system will keep trying to reroute you back to the original rather than recalculating. Once I went 70 miles and passed into the upper in Michigan before it recalculated. I was recently sent a notice that I could upgrade to current maps for $59 annually. This is pretty funny. 2. The bluetooth phone works OK, but it takes a minute or two to reload the phonebook from my phone each time. Why? Again my phone is better. At least the car bluetooth will pick up the call after I have made it on my phone. 3. Hands free control - you can speak controls but you have to know the exact sequence of words, for example for an address, you can't easily search for anything else, this is not really useful. Bottom line is that BMW should hire some Samsung or Apple engineers. Not sure I would buy again but would consider if they caught up with Ford on technology front. Update: clear coat pealing off.
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