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increaseOne of the more affordable luxury vehicles from BMW, the X1 rolled off the assembly line in 2013 and since then it’s been popular among drivers that put efficiency at a premium. But make no mistakes about it – the X1 is still a BMW and has the performance to prove it.
The German Auto Center team has become familiar with the three X1 models over the last three years. This overview will give you a look at what makes the X1 unique and what owners can expect today as well as years down the road.
Not quite a compact SUV, not quite a hatchback – the BMW X1 falls squarely in the crossover category. It’s quick and nimble, handling tight turns, curves and straightaways with relative ease. And it has more than enough speed for everyday driving. The styling may not resonate with all drivers, but the functionality and drivability will.
As mentioned above, the price tag is much lower than you might expect. The X1 sDrive28i is the most affordable option starting at just $31,000. That’s followed by the xDrive28i at $33,000 and the xDrive35i at $39,100 MSRP. But if you want extras and upgrades plan on shelling out another $250 for roof rails all the way up to $6,150 for the Ultimate Package.
It’s a pint-sized SUV so don’t expect the X1 to be overly spacious inside. The interior of the X1 is ample, especially compared to a sedan, but the backseat can get a little tight if there are three passengers.
However, the X1’s subdued interior is a refreshing throwback to earlier BMWs, much like its performance. The dash is streamlined with only the essential gauges and actual knobs instead of a touchscreen. The leatherette upholstery is supple and the metal silver finishes add a bit of sophistication to the styling. Overall it’s comfortable, classic and the quality comes through in its simplicity.
As a Bosch-authorized BMW service center, we’ve performed many BMW repairs in Austin. From correcting damage after a collision to making performance enhancements, local BMW owners know they can come to German Auto Center for high quality work that’s on par with the dealership without the inflated prices. Call us today if your X1 needs regular maintenance or repair.Akira Iriye. Global Interdependence: The World after 1945. A History of the World Series. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2013. 1,008 pp. $35.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04572-9.
Global Interdependence begins with an evocative epitaph: “A man without bias cannot write interesting history—if, indeed, such a man exists.” The quote, which comes from Bertrand Russell’s memoirs, introduces this diverse overview of the world after 1945. As editor, Akira Iriye explains, his biases include a commitment to contributing a fresh perspective on the recent past, a desire to place this perspective in a truly global frame, and a devotion to explicating the layers of transnational history. Although these layers, which he identifies as geopolitics, economics, the environment, and cultural exchange, converged at different points after 1945, each has a distinct story and chronology, and each layer receives separate treatment in Global Interdependence’s five chapters. Readers looking for a new take on the driving force of history will have to look elsewhere; this is a tome about interactions. Transnational exchange happened “across borders, among people and their communities, ideas, and goods, to such an extent that, whether we are talking about political, economic, social, or cultural affairs, the destinies of nations, civilizations, individuals, and the natural habitat become closely linked” (p. 4). Presented with an admirable terseness, Iriye’s argument straddles the line between understatement and provocation: the world achieved interdependence after 1945.
Clocking in at over nine hundred pages, Global Interdependence can be unpacked in various ways. Like its predecessor, A World Connecting, 1870-1945 (2012), which was edited by Emily Rosenberg and published in 2012, Iriye’s volume consists of long interpretive essays that both synthesize recent scholarship and reflect the predilections of each contributor. Historians of U.S. foreign relations will recognize many of the authors—Petra Goedde, J. R. McNeill, and Thomas W. Zeiler, among others—and Global Interdependence might be read as an intervention in U.S. and the world history. That field, which barely existed a decade ago, emerged arguably from the confluence of diplomatic history with immigration and global studies during the early 2000s.[1] When viewed alongside Rosenberg’s volume, Global Interdependence provides a capacious starting point to think about this nascent historiography. The United States percolates nearly every page of Iriye’s tome, but the authors are as interested in the world as in the United States. Wilfried Loth explores the superpower contest through the prism of European unity; Zeiler illuminates how Washington shaped (and was shaped by) postwar capitalism; McNeill and Peter Engelke place this period in the context of population and energy concerns; Goedde explains the way diversity and homogenization interacted in the age of cultural globalization; and Iriye offers a précis on transnationalism. Paired with Rosenberg, Global Interdependence articulates a vision of the field that is less about the United States than about the line that defines this curious category of U.S./world. The book walks this line expertly—a challenge that has organized recent meetings of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)—and does so in a way that showcases the field’s obvious methodological diversity.[2] The resulting narrative invites historians to rethink the context around and the significance of America’s rise to power during the twentieth century.
Yet Global Interdependence’s intellectual ambitions go beyond the United States. Iriye’s volume is the sixth book of the History of the World series, which he is assembling with Jürgen Osterhammel and publishing jointly with Harvard University Press and C. H. Beck. Beginning in prehistoric times, this multivolume project promises to articulate a genealogy of a peculiar historical subject: transnational consciousness. The journal New Global Studies has cultivated this scholarly agenda since 2007, feeding on recent writings by Christopher Bayly, Charles Bright, Michael Geyer, Bruce Mazlish, Osterhammel, and Saskia Sassen, among others, and Iriye’s book is an elaboration of this larger pedagogical endeavor.[3] World historians will not find references to peripheries, cores, or longue durées in Global Interdependence, nor will they learn anything new about the rise and fall of great powers.[4] Iriye’s project is about connections and interactions. “We need a conceptual hold on the experience of a world that is defined by its globality,” Bright and Geyer wrote recently. It is not enough to define this effort by scale or theory; what is needed is a history that reveals why communities became interlocked and how they found meaning in that experience.[5] The History of