Best SUV/Crossover?

I had a Kuga as a hire car the other day for work randomly. Was actually quite a nice drive, but £30k?!

The Nissan Juke isn't much smaller, and they've just released the Nismo version. 200bhp, mid 40's combined, marmite looks, and its £18k brand new from Carfile. Spec looks pretty fair to me.

Yeti's are another good shout though.
 
[TW]Fox;23729763 said:
It was a completely base specification xDrive 18d. I found the interior quality to be quite below the level I expected from BMW and the engine/gearbox combination (manual and low power diesel) were not good. It was very slow and it felt like there was an age between actually putting your foot down and something happening with the engine. I could think of very little about it that I actually liked or could understand the point of.

It is 3 Series based but it's based on the old 3 Series which had been out for about 5 years before the X1 appeared. So it's quite last-gen in terms of feel.

Perhaps if it had been a better specified model I'd have thought differently but I was very dissapointed with it.
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Fair enough.
I had a 318 courtesy car (previous generation) and must admit I was disappointed with that too - it was underpowered. So the same engine in the X1 xDrive I can understand what you mean.
The 2.0 is better (nearly 25% more power)although not exactly super fast . I do find I'm having to often change gear when at the 30mph mark (between 3rd and 4th) which I'm used to now, but having come from a high powered petrol (where I'd be in 5th which was good for any speeds really) I did find it annoying at first.
I do however wish they had fitted the 3.0diesel to the X1. I'm not a big fan over over-turboed cars so the 23 was out of the question for me but defo would have gone for the 3.0.
 
Peugeot 3008 is more of an MPV, but gives you the ride height, space and feel of a crossover. Avoid the 1.6 hdi, I found it gutless. Also look at the Ford B-Max, Titanium spec gives good value...
 
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