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Originally Posted by 535i MSport
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Europeans actually love SUVs as I understand. It's just that they are way more expensive to buy and to run over there.[/QUOTE]
Your comment is correct but not for all european countries. It is for example very true for the swiss market. (but the success of the X versions is not only due to a trend but also to the topography of the country).
Below you will see all BMW sales in Switzerland since 2006. See how the %age of X vs others evolved since then, impressive ! X versions are today more than 40% of the total BMW sales.
Although it is a small country (8 millions people), numbers in this market are very interesting because the country does not produce cars (so no bias due to people buying cars produced by "their" country) and swiss are big consumers of premium cars.
So even if X version are good sellers, we are lucky to have Touring versions 😊