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Originally Posted by SeaSkiAndMe
A neighbor's friend is a "car person" (works at a competing German mfg dealership) and noted to me yesterday that the X1 Xdrive AWD isn't truly AWD, that it's biased 60/40 toward the back wheels. Is this correct?
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the 2023 X1 xDrive28i is FWD 100% of the time. However, when the xDrive system detects slippage in the rear wheels, it sends whatever extra power it deems necessary to the rear or front wheels in order to reduce the slippage. In other words, it's basically a 100/0 AWD.
That was how it was explained to me by the salesman and the BMW technician) They both recommended that if I wanted more than, I needed to select the X3 instead. The X3 is a more capable version of xDrive because it splits power 40/60(40 front, 60 rear) when you're driving normally. When condition requires, it will send as much as 100% to the rear or the front.
I live in a warm state where it never snows, so it doesn't really bother me that the X1 has a lesser xDriver AWD system.