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Hi friends
The most awaited event has materialised. I took delivery of my new X1. The decision to change my 320d was a fast one and the whole process took one week. Last Tuesday I confirmed the order and today I have the baby SUV in my hands. Did only about 50 kms today. The drive was awesome. The high seating gives a commanding view. The features on the top end are amazing.
Pros
Commanding stance
Better rear leg space than the 320d
Panaromic sun roof is oh la la
Cons
Steering is heavier than the 320d especially at lower speeds
Pickup is slightly less than the 320d
The delivery process was smooth. Everything was ready when I reached the showroom at 10.20am. We completed the formalities, did one more check. The traditional pooja and coconut breaking ceremony followed. Recd a nice tray full of excellent cakes and cookies.
The freebies included Car cover, extra matting and an X1 key chain.
I was out of the showroom by 11:10 and sped back home. Wife is very pleased with the interiors and especially the comfortable front seating.
The stance of the car is imposing and receives many glances and awe looks. The red on black interiors is to everybody's liking its the first time we have taken this choice. Its our first SUV (though its not a real SUV) and I am enjoying every moment of it. The in-built hard disk has only about 12GB capacity, but is adequate to store atleast 8000 MP3 songs which in my opinion is more then adequate. The manual said only music from CDs / DVDs can be stored in the Hard disk, however, now they have provided an additional usb slot in the glove box where one can connect a pen drive to load music. The loading is a little slow and took about 40 minutes to transfer 7GB of music from my pen drive to the Hard disk. I am yet to try out playing a movie from a dvd. The screen size is quite large and has a facility to split. One side you can have the navigation and on the other side the car computer data is displayed. I am trying to figure out whether I can customise it further. The idrive is a breeze is use and I have managed to learn most of the functions. Need to learn more of the navigation, may take help from the dealers for that.
The 50 km drive today returned an average of about 11.1 kmpl. It should mprove with more running. The suspensions are excellent and once the windows are closed, there is hardly any noise inside the cabin.
Planning to drive down to Lavasa on Friday which should give me more idea of the drivability and ease of use. Will post the experience later.
Posting some pice below.
The most awaited event has materialised. I took delivery of my new X1. The decision to change my 320d was a fast one and the whole process took one week. Last Tuesday I confirmed the order and today I have the baby SUV in my hands. Did only about 50 kms today. The drive was awesome. The high seating gives a commanding view. The features on the top end are amazing.
Pros
Commanding stance
Better rear leg space than the 320d
Panaromic sun roof is oh la la
Cons
Steering is heavier than the 320d especially at lower speeds
Pickup is slightly less than the 320d
The delivery process was smooth. Everything was ready when I reached the showroom at 10.20am. We completed the formalities, did one more check. The traditional pooja and coconut breaking ceremony followed. Recd a nice tray full of excellent cakes and cookies.
The freebies included Car cover, extra matting and an X1 key chain.
I was out of the showroom by 11:10 and sped back home. Wife is very pleased with the interiors and especially the comfortable front seating.
The stance of the car is imposing and receives many glances and awe looks. The red on black interiors is to everybody's liking its the first time we have taken this choice. Its our first SUV (though its not a real SUV) and I am enjoying every moment of it. The in-built hard disk has only about 12GB capacity, but is adequate to store atleast 8000 MP3 songs which in my opinion is more then adequate. The manual said only music from CDs / DVDs can be stored in the Hard disk, however, now they have provided an additional usb slot in the glove box where one can connect a pen drive to load music. The loading is a little slow and took about 40 minutes to transfer 7GB of music from my pen drive to the Hard disk. I am yet to try out playing a movie from a dvd. The screen size is quite large and has a facility to split. One side you can have the navigation and on the other side the car computer data is displayed. I am trying to figure out whether I can customise it further. The idrive is a breeze is use and I have managed to learn most of the functions. Need to learn more of the navigation, may take help from the dealers for that.
The 50 km drive today returned an average of about 11.1 kmpl. It should mprove with more running. The suspensions are excellent and once the windows are closed, there is hardly any noise inside the cabin.
Planning to drive down to Lavasa on Friday which should give me more idea of the drivability and ease of use. Will post the experience later.
Posting some pice below.
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. That's a really nice buy.
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