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BMW X1 Comes Out in the Open Once Again
Due to hit showrooms in 2010, here is yet another spotting of the BMW X1 out on public roads getting ready for a possible debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show. The 1 series based X1 will share the same platform as the new Mini Crossman SUV and will be a similar size to the Ford Kuga and Toyota RAV4, but expect pricing to come in a little higher than its direct competitors at around 32 000 Euros.
The prototype pictured is still under heavy camouflage giving is little cues as to the eventual styling, but we expect a pre production concept model to be presented first – possibly later this year
The X1 will inherit the engines from the 1 series range but due to high costs there is little chance of a hybrid engine, with development likely to focus on the new 7-series.





http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080107.010/bmw-x1-comes-out-in-the-open-once-again

Here is a new CGI from the current Auto-Bild cover :

I hope it does not turn out that way

I've found it too, half an hour ago, but didn't want to post that crap...

Terrible!

Why build this when MINI will have its own SUV model?

Great!

Yet another top-heavy, overweight, waste-of-space image enhancer...

In days gone by they'd develop seat belts, or the disc brake, or stability control. Now manufacturers spend their days turning every model in their range into ill handling rollovers Looking For Somewhere To Happen. What a waste.

Looks like it will be a very nice and classy vehicle.. i don't into all this runining the brands name... the more money BMW makes the more moeny goes into making there cars better.. that's all that I care about... History is in the past, embrace the future. This is BMW's future and it looks like it will be a great and prosperous future for BMW and its customers

Here we go again ... incl the rear end impression ...





Btw, also expect black parts like lower parts of both bumpers, edges of wheel arches, side skirts ...

^ LOL .....God, I making myself ill here


That chop has the worst front ever seen on a BMW -- note: I have mentally blocked out the X3 ....it causes me too many nightmares.

Latest Huckfeldt's CGI is based on hi-res spy pics ... + on some internal info I guess.

Let's comment H's impressions ...

The side lines are very accurate ...
Yet the lines / creases are a bit pale in this CGI - on the car they look much more exposed & visible. Sloping character line is accurate, so is the concave surface at the bottom of side doors (similar to X3 feature - which is way more angular in comparison to X1's element). Also the doors on the CGI looks way to flat - on the real car they are more convex.

Proportions are a bit messed ... as usual for CGI. The car is lower & wider IRL.

The hood is quite similar to the real one ... But not 100%.

CGI fascia is quite wrong ... grille with those extra intakes is wrong ... headlights are not real ... bumper is really fishy - the outer intakes are not right (should be larger) ... nor are the fog lights (should be positioned higher - just like on X5 & X3).

Rear ... tail gate lines are looking OK. Bumper ... let's say OK. Hofmeister kink is not really accurate. Rear lights ... should see bigger pic, can't see them now. But will be similar to 1er coupe + X6 (imagine the mix of these two designs).

And expect black plastics on lower parts of both bumpers, wheel arch edges, side skirts - in a typical X-model manner.