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Originally Posted by r999
Autocar, the oldest motoring mag in the world, is not published in, or written for, the US. BMW does not include 4-year maintenance here. The cars that Autocar regards as better buys than the X1 are the Qashqai and the Kuga. The CX-5 is fifth in their ranking, the Yeti fourth. The comparable CX-5 model costs £3,400 less here, but they still rate it two places worse than the X1.
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That's interesting how different the UK market is. It sounds like the X1 is quite overpriced over there... or perhaps BMW is pricing the X1 more fairly here to gain competitive advantage? Maybe a little of both. The compact SUV market here is incredibly cutthroat and it'll be interesting to see how the X1 performs sales-wise with competition from seemingly every major world automaker (except the French ones) scrambling for a piece of the same compact SUV segment here.