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Carsales Staff2 May 2012
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SPY PICS: Early update for BMW X1

BMW's baby SUV is in line for a minor facelift around the end of the year

There’s not much to it, but it is nevertheless something of a surprise that BMW is planning to update its recently-launched X1 SUV for the 2013 model year.


These Carparazzi spy pics of a giddily-disguised X1 running around a BMW facility near Munich invites more speculation about what might lie underneath the skin than what has been done to massage the looks. Is there something other than revised front and rear bumpers, and LED-inclusive headlights in line for the X1?


Although the photo car pointed to minor front and rear styling revisions, speculation is that other changes will appear by the time the car is launched.


If there is something more significant we don’t yet know about BMW’s plans for the X1, we will most likely need to wait until the revised version is launched in Europe around the end of the year, and in Australia some months after.


The BMW X1 was introduced to the European market in 2009 and went on sale in Australia in April 2010. The US market, which has so far been denied the X1, is expected to get its first shipments at the end of this year, around the same time the updated version arrives in Europe.


— with Carparazzi



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