Monthly Motor - September 2014
All Your Motoring Needs from Kenyan Publishers Media 7 Group
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COMING SOON<br />
BMW will launch the second generation of its compact-SUV, the X1, in a little more<br />
than a year from now, showing off an architecture that has very little to do with the<br />
previous X1. BMW have basically started from the ground up with this X1, basing<br />
it on the same versatile platform as the Mini hatchback and new 2-Series Active<br />
Tourer which was launched in Solden, Austria at the end of July.<br />
The UKL1 platform is actually being<br />
used to streamline a whole bunch<br />
of production plans around the X1,<br />
as BMW will also be building the<br />
second generation Mini Countryman<br />
and Clubman on it. This means that through a common<br />
platform, these vehicles will end up sharing<br />
drivelines, electrical systems and chassis, greatly<br />
improving profitability of models.<br />
Back to the BMW X1, this platform share<br />
means that the new X1 will be offered as a choice<br />
of front-wheel and four-wheel drive, foregoing the<br />
The All-New BMW X1<br />
Front-Wheel Drive For 2015<br />
By Jude Gaya<br />
outgoing model’s rear-wheel drive setup. The engine<br />
will also be transversally mounted as opposed to<br />
longitudinally, which has allowed the BMW packagers<br />
and stylists to shorten the bonnet and increase<br />
the slope of the roof.<br />
Designers close to the project say that these<br />
46 MOTOR SEPTEMBER <strong>2014</strong>
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