2022 BMW X1 // Is the Most Affordable BMW any Good?? (9.5M) PKR #BMWPAKISTAN #DEWANFAROOQ #CROSSOVERSUV #GERMANMANUFACTURER

       What's going on my Blogspot Family so for every brand they have a vehicle that serves as the entry point into their lineup designed to get and hopefully keep customers that will buy repeatedly for bmw this x1 is the most affordable vehicle in their lineup and is packing the same styling and many of the same elements straight from its more expensive siblings.

        So starting at a little over 35 grand is this a great crossover to buy let's go ahead and find out now when i talk about similar styling i really do mean similar styling because this x1 really just packs in that x3 and x5 style and just kind of miniaturizes it so you've got all those signature bmw elements that you expect including your signature kidney grill last year this was refreshed to have a larger grill however it's still quite a bit smaller than what you find on most of the modern bmws of course you have both your x line and your m sport availability so if you choose the m sport package that's going to black out this grille for a more aggressive look as well as the lower fascia now we'll go ahead and scoot over here next to the headlights so this model actually comes standard with halogen headlights however you probably won't see any of them equipped like that because you do have available led headlights which do have cornering lamps as well like i said these are optional fog lights are also available we don't have them on this example because for 2021 they have been eliminated from the convenience package now as you'd expect from any bmw you've got a series of different wheels you can choose between this is actually the standard wheel but it still looks very nice this is a 18 inch contrast alloy wheel you can choose this finish or you can actuall get a full gloss black finish like we sampled last year and then the m sport model does have its own unique wheel and there are some available 19s as well now coming up here to our mirrors you actually have pretty much all the features on this one since we have the convenience package so we have standard heating that package throws in power folding and auto dimming however for some reason we don't have blind spot monitoring on this model.

               So let's go ahead and check out this x1 rear design now one of the best things about the x1 is the fact that honestly this rear looks exactly like almost every other bmw crossover so even though this is the most affordable crossover in the bmw lineup this looks very similar to the x3 x5 x7 so as far as what that design is going to consist of it's going to be these full led tail lights every individual component in here is led including the turn signal and reverse light and then if we drop down you're noticing we do have some rugged black matte plastic that's going to be for these regular x-line models however you however if you go for the m sport it will add body color lower body kit and then down below that we have some more body color trims of silver trim and dual exhaust outlets now as far as your safety systems you're going to get three out of four of them standard on the x1 which is pretty good for a german vehicle so that's going to be ford emergency braking with pedestrian detection lane keeping assist as well as auto high beam headlamps.

               However you are going to have to option on the adaptive cruise control but anyway guys that sums up the x1s exterior design i love the paint color but now let's go ahead and check out the interior of this vehicle before we take it out in a spin and before we do all of that we would really appreciate it if you hit that Follow button down below so walking up to the x1 you will find a keyless entry system if you choose the convenience or premium packages as you can see this does have the brand's typical key fob and of course to get inside the vehicle itself just grab behind the handle and it will unlock all right now taking a look inside of the cabin itself this was just refreshed last year so you'll notice a lot of those same changes of course will be present here now let's get into some of our different interior material and color options so starting out you'll have the sensotec leatherate as standard that comes in your choice of this black or the oyster color options now you can also get dakota leather for fifteen hundred dollars that comes with the same two colors plus also a mocha option.

  Now turning over here to your door trim you'll find leatherette across the armrest portion as well as above it is going to be soft touch along the top and we also have some optional wood trim on this example as far as our windows are going to be one touch auto up and down for all four then checking out these seats themselves these are eight-way power adjusting with four-way lumbar support and you also have standard memory seating located right here and like i was saying um we do have the leatherette seats these have a nice realistic feel i will say they are very flat seats so they don't really have any bolstering on the standard version of the seat but if you get the m sport model you have the sport seats which have significantly more bolsters all right so now let's go ahead and take a look around the material quality of the cabin being the most affordable bmw materials are still fine.

          So you have a soft touch plastic across the upper dashboard with a color contrast stitching detail as we move down we have a large piece of this high gloss wood trim below that we have more soft touch materials again with a stitching detail you also notice a piece of leatherette that runs all through here and along the passenger side which kind of makes for a little handlebar i do like that look and then off on this side is going to be hard touch but everything does fit together in that typical bmw way now to start it up press the standard button now after it starts up you'll notice something a little bit different than in your typical bmw and that's the fact that we actually have a traditional analog gauge set up versus the live cockpit professional gauges you find in most of the other models that's actually not going to be available on the x1 so this is the setup.

   You'll always get that being said information down here at the bottom is reconfigurable now in addition to that though you have a head up display up here at the top if you choose the premium package and it is nice and vivid now coming back to the steering wheel of course we have electric power assisted steering and a nice leather wrapped steering wheel the wheel itself is going to be manual tilt and telescoping and you can also option on heating which is located right there okay so now let's go ahead and check the interior storage because this is a relatively small vehicle so bmw has really pushed down this console area to give it a nice open and airy feel you'll notice that your armrest it kind of just floats above here.

          So when you open up this top part this really doesn't have the storage in it this is just designed to be a wireless phone charging pad so what you basically do is stick your phone in this push this back and then it should lock into place however my phone's a little bit too big to fit in there so before you choose this 500 option you might want to check and see if your phone will fit now underneath of that you're going to have your main center console this is fairly spacious for a vehicle in this size category it does have a rubber lining at the bottom as well as a usb type-c and we can stick our stack of coupons in there looks like they're gonna fit no problem whatsoever now up in front of that we have our two cup holders we have another storage area right here 12 volt outlet a traditional usb port now coming back here to the shifter this last year was replaced to become an electronic shifter so this operates exactly the same way as in other bmw products so you're going to pull back for drive you can bump over here to the left if you want to do some manual shifting and if you choose the m sport model that will throw in paddle shifters now heading into reverse we do have a standard backup camera on board.

                  You'll also notice of course we have our parking visualization over there on the side for front and rear parking sensors and active trajectory and then for park just press the p right there on top of course you do have an electronic parking brake located behind there now we'll move on up the dashboard to our climate controls next we do have a standard dual zone automatic climate control setup of course very simple to use you have all your physical buttons located right through here you also notice we have the heated seats these are included in the premium package or as a standalone option seat ventilation though is not available and then up above that we have kind of traditional style audio controls through here with your presets as well as your physical volume knob now the standard system is a seven speaker 205 watt setup there is an available harman kardon sound system however we have these standard options so we'll go ahead and give that a sample now is so sound quality of the standard system is pretty good however if you're real big into audio then definitely go for that upgraded sound system which will be more impressive of course i do want to point out something about these speakers you'll notice there is no speaker down in the lower part of the door trim and that is to maximize storage of our storage that's inside of the door trim okay so now let's return to the main display so what we've got on board with this model is an 8.8 inch display this is standard equipment and this was one of the things that was upgraded in the refresh last year now this system is still running the older style idrive 6 system so the software is a little bit different than what you see in the latest bmw products however it is mostly the same uh the display itself is a touch screen or you can use the idrive controller down below um and you actually do have standard navigation across all the models which is a nice touch.

                You'll also find apple carplay included now moving on up we have an auto dimming mirror and then up here on this specific example we have the panoramic sunroof this is included as part of the convenience package which pretty much all the x ones will come equipped with and of course the front portion does open up alrighty now with anything in this segment the rear seat is normally pretty cramped and not a great place to spend time however that is not the case with this bmw x1 as far as the space figures are going to be concerned you have 37 inches of rear legroom 39 inches of your headroom which puts it above the audi q3 and really it's not too much more not too much smaller than the bmw x3 so i mean behind your seating position they do even have knee cutouts i have about five and a half inches of your leg room and my feet can easily slide up underneath the seat now as far as the features are concerned we do have vents here in the middle you're not going to have your own climate controls though like you would get on an x3 and then dropping down we do have usb type-c ports and if we fold down the center armrest here we do have pop-out cup holders and i do want to mention that you can option on the ability to slide and recline the seat which i'd say you might want to go for that option since this seat is pretty hard so you need to make it as comfortable as you can now walking up to the tailgate on the x1 you are going to have a standard hands-free power one so just wave your foot under the bumper to open it up and this is gonna once again reveal a really quite large amount of space for this segment of vehicle.

           You're looking at 27 cubic feet of space behind the second row seats that expands all the way up to 59 cubic feet as a maximum which is around 10 cubic feet larger than the audi q3 and once again not too much smaller than that bmw x3 so you're really not sacrificing a lot in the space department now as far as how they have finished it back here if we lift up the really nicely carpeted floor we have additional storage that's probably i would say seven to eight inches deep and goes all the way across the entire floor we also have storage cubbies on both the left and right side and in addition to that we have a 12 volt power outlet and a cargo cover and the seats can also fold 40 20 40 split over here at your passenger seat as you can see we are going to keep a lot of adjustments just like the driver and then if we open up the glove box here it is a pretty decently sized glove box it's kind of odd because this front part just kind of falls down and then there's a storage cubby here in the back and if we're looking as to fit our coupons in here i'll grab them out of the center console and they do fit in that shelf pretty well and then up top we have a sun visor with the led light tiny cracker-sized mirror and we can also detach however we cannot extend the sun visor.

               Yeah this has a really nice pull to it um you know straight from the line just kind of builds power as you increase in rpms so this is a two liter turbocharged four cylinder engine makes 228 horsepower 258 pound-feet of torque um especially the torque figure i think is really what makes this feel pretty peppy because it definitely um you know pulls like i said you have a nice punch as you take off and this is a very small vehicle so you know it doesn't take a lot to get it going and i think it's pretty impressive actually yeah now as far as the transmission we've got an eight-speed automatic transmission on board it's a really nice transmission um definitely shifts very smoothly as you're underway um you know and just basically this kind of transmission that you can ignore in a sense because it's not really an important part of the uh you know driving experience now i want to talk about as well the fact that this is actually a front-wheel drive based bmw so that's unusual in the bmw lineup so you have standard front wheel drive and available all-wheel drive and you know as he was mentioning performance is not really a mission of the x1 it's more about just comfort and you know i'd say i'm pretty impressed by it we're hitting a few bumps other than the seats being pretty firm the all the all the seats throughout the cabin are very firm so maybe you like that or not but i think the ride quality is good it's a good ride quality but you do feel a little bit just because the seeds are so firm but even though this is not you know focused on sport per se it does still have a little bit of that bmw dynamics.

        When you throw it through a corner the steering is nicely weighted as well and you can see it's very fast responding so i'm glad to see that bmw still injected you know a little bit of enthusiasm into it now you may be curious about the fuel economy of this x1 and for front drive it's going to come in a 24 33 27 and all wheel drive is going to be 26 combined yeah and we do have an auto start stop system on board as well um well we're not about to take off but i'll go and show you a little bit how it starts up very nice and smooth does a good job all right let's do our air ball and slam dunk for the x1 so i'll go ahead and start us out with the slam dunk for this vehicle and i'm gonna say it's the exterior design.

    I think it's really a beautiful thing the fact that this x1 looks almost exactly the same as an x3 and x5 and you know maybe a little bit less like the x7 but you know like i think the average consumer wouldn't really even know the difference on the outside compared to those different models that can cost almost twice as much as this right and for our air ball it's pretty much the opposite side of things it's gonna be the cabin because uh this is certainly an area i think you would be able to notice that there's.

It's definitely different from the uh bigger bmws in the sense that is less luxurious but also does have an older just kind of design to it because this is an older product and you know let's go ahead and discuss the pricing because obviously this is actually the cheapest way into the bmw lineup so that's a strong suit for it the front drive model is going to start at 35 400 bucks all wheel drive is going to be 37 400. and when i pull out the sticker here we do have the very steep 1200 for the paint on the outside i love the paint but that's pretty steep and we also have the destination charge of 9.95 and a few other options brings this one to 44 940 bucks yeah and this is uh pretty well equipped for the the x1 lineup there's not really much more that you can add to it beyond what we have on this example um so obviously that really positions this as a very strong value inside the bmw lineup because many of the products even if they have a pretty good starting price once you add like the options that you want they can be very expensive um so this you know i think continues to offer really a lot because it gives you that nice bmw styling a lot of the features from the bigger bmws except you've got a much more palatable price point.

                  Well guys that's it for our in-depth review of this 2021 bmw x1 we really appreciate you watching this Blog and if you made it this far be sure to hit that Follow button down below because i know you probably enjoyed or at least found it helpful and also hit that FOLLOW BUTTON as well while you're at it anyway we'll we'll catch you next time as we sample more of the latest. #BMWPAKISTAN #DEWANFAROOQ #CROSSOVERSUV #GERMANMANUFACTURER