Silver BMW X1 Rental in Los Angeles

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.

It is the X1 to take for a working week. Park it in the sun all afternoon and the cabin is bearable; drive it up the coast and back and it still looks clean; leave it at a valet and nobody thinks about it either way. If the car needs to be part of the occasion, the fleet's blue X1 does that job and this one does not pretend to.

The X1 is the BMW that makes most sense in Los Angeles and gets the least attention for it. It is short enough to park on Abbot Kinney, tall enough to see over traffic on the 10, and quiet enough that a two-hour crawl to Orange County is not an ordeal. The turbocharged four is brisk rather than fast, the boot is genuinely square, and the rear seats take two adults properly. Honest hook: it is the small BMW SUV, not the fast one — book it because it is easy, not because it is quick.