BMW X1 U.S. launch delayed

2010 BMW X1, 13.08.2010

Can barely keep with up with European demand

It's no secret that the BMW X1 is insanely popular - as it recently overtook the Audi Q5 to become Europe's top selling premium SUV - but a new report is indicting the unprecedented demand will cause the company to postpone the US launch.

In an interview with Car and Driver, BMW spokesman Tom Plucinsky said the X1 won't be coming "until fall of 2011 at the absolute earliest." This is because the Leipzig plant can barely keep up European orders and a US launch simply isn't feasible at the moment.

Despite the delay, America's neighbors to the north (Canada for the scholars among us) will get the X1 early this year as scheduled.

Source: Car & Driver

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SebXX

X1 more popular than Q5 in Europe ? You're kidding. a) different categories b) X1 is really looking cheap The new X3 is the serious competitor with Audi's Q5.

January 13, 2011 12:49 pm

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ovyd

dude, it doesn't matter that they're different categories, what the article was saying (read it again!) is that OVERALL, the X1 is the best-selling premium SUV in Europe. Period. I'm not saying that it's better than the Q5 or not, it just sells more... anyways, where are the lemmings that were calling&predicting this an "epic fail" a little more than year ago, on this very website?

January 13, 2011 3:06 pm

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N20_Purge

They aren't missing much.

January 13, 2011 12:52 pm

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eddie

I still believe the X5 is still the number 1 selling SUV, so anything that looks like that will sell!

January 13, 2011 1:54 pm

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Edison

That's OK BMW, you can keep the X1 in Europe...This is nothing compared to the Q5, and neither is the X3. IMO BMW styling doesn't translate that well to SUVs period. The X5 is no looker either.

January 13, 2011 2:18 pm

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BavarianMS

Q5 is no looker either.

January 13, 2011 2:31 pm

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freeway

ugly, ugly, ugly... even uglier than the X3...

January 13, 2011 2:25 pm

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SainUK

Think the Q5 isn't a looker, give it a MacDonalds diet and you get a Q7.....

January 13, 2011 2:49 pm

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scratchy996

i wanted to replace my old A4 quattro wagon with the X1, but it's just too damn ugly.

January 14, 2011 2:32 am

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charlemagne

don't do it.

January 14, 2011 4:48 pm

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DUCATI46

When i does arrive in the US they'll wonder what all the hype was about.... truely ugly and pointless car.

January 14, 2011 3:01 am

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the delay has more to do with identity infringement with the Pigs of Angry Birds.

January 14, 2011 3:16 am

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CReeds

It shouldn't be in the "premium SUV" category to begin with! There's nothing premium about it.

January 14, 2011 9:51 am

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GTurbo

BMW's 'flame surface' design language is in crisis and ruining future products and I hope the VED supercar will be spared this aesthetic aberration!

January 14, 2011 8:41 pm

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msinisa

BMW X1 is pure crap.

January 15, 2011 9:21 am

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X CHRIS CROSS X

Ok so the x1 isnt to everyones tastes but lets be honest when bmw makes a "different" car everyone has a go and when it plays the game more safely (5er F10) everyone says its boring. oh and @GTurbo the x1 isnt part of the flame surfacing era its a generation ahead, nor more flame surfacing bimmers are designed now :)

January 15, 2011 3:08 pm

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rnsaza

I really like this car! There are plenty on the roads here in South Africa, it looks so good. BMW is back on track wrt styling imo.

January 16, 2011 8:27 am

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