BMW X1 Rental in Los Angeles

Black keeps the BMW X1 low-key and sharp, the kind of finish that reads well from Downtown to the studios. It stays a compact, maneuverable SUV that handles errands, airport runs, and canyon drives without fuss. Choose it when you want a darker, more discreet profile.

Almost every compact SUV in this city is white, black or silver. This X1 is a deep marine blue that goes nearly black in shade and turns unmistakably blue the moment the sun reaches it — which is the whole trick of a dark metallic, and the reason this is the one people notice in a car park full of the same shape.

Silver is the least demanding finish in the fleet. It does not glare on a bright canyon road, it does not show the fine pale dust a week of driving leaves, and it never looks out of place — at a hotel, at an office, at a trailhead. On a compact SUV that is bought for being easy, it is the matching colour.

This is a cool, slightly blue-cast grey rather than a warm one, and on the current X1 — which is squarer and more upright than the car it replaced — it does something useful: it gives the big flat panels depth without darkening the car into a single shape.