You raise a good point. My wife reminded me how difficult my 7 Series BMW was to park, not just the width but it stuck out of spaces. Another, probably more practical option, is to stick with Motability for running my wife around (maybe even an EV) and me buying a ‘fun’ car that gives me more pleasure, but as I now only do 7-8k miles a year two cars seems a bit pointless. None of these thoughts would be going around my mind if the Tucson was as enjoyable to drive as the X1 was
There’s one problem, as I see it, is BMW lower models aren’t as good as the previous gen, other than the advantage of being bigger. The loss of the idrive wheel, is a major mistake hence my push up to the 3 and beyond. You still get the intelligent speed limit alet bongs, as well as LKA and anything elese the EU throws at cars in the future, but thats not the manufacturers fault – going foward that will be a prioty on how easy these systems are to turn off every time you start the bloody thing.
I don’t mind the Tucson for what it is, a great family car with every extra you could wish for. Its not as engaging to drive as the 2 series or BMW in general, due to its softer suspension, but it still gets me round corners without bother at speed. More importantly to me, the Tucson still has more space inside and especially at the rear, which is especially good if a meltdown occurs😂 and thats where I struggle, finding something suitable but engaging on the scheme and I don’t call a 1.5 3cyl engaging enough to pay through the roof for options to ferry my daughter around. Interstingly, a friend as the iX1 30 and he prefers the twin screens in theTucson and intuitiveness of them with physical buttons along with the brightness, but doen’t like the fact satnav isn’t displayed on the drivers screen and went onto say, but I use the HUD? The seats are comfier in the X1 though. He gets 200 mile range, which is shit unless you have a Peugeot😂 and says he will be going back to Genysis. Thats why I wan’t to leave the scheme and get the best of both worlds if you like.