BMW X2 interior

Style

The BMW X2 feels like an expensive car from the minute you sit in the supportive driver’s seat and put your hand on the thick, leather-bound steering wheel.

The simple white-on-black dials are clear and you get big air-con and volume knobs that are easy to reach. Pretty much everything else is operated using the fixed iDrive scroll knob, which makes it easy to use the infotainment system even when you are driving.

Then there’s the quality of the BMW X2’s construction. Almost everything you touch on the inside is made from thick, squishy plastics that feel expensive and the X2 also gets contrast stitching on the dashboard that sets it apart from more traditional BMW saloons.

Harder plastics are there if you look hard enough – around the lower part of the centre console and at the bottoms of the doors – but even they don’t have the flimsy feel of some of the materials used in a Jaguar E-Pace.

Glossy black trims and slithers of brushed metal ramp up the premium appearance in entry-level BMW X2 models, but M Sport versions go one step further with aluminium finishes that look suitably sporty. Really, though, you’ll want an M Sport X model – they get part-Alcantara seats with yellow piping that look and feel very posh indeed.

You can, of course, take things up a notch by visiting the options list and ticking the box for the Lighting Package. It adds mood lighting strips – which you can switch between orange, lilac, mint, bronze, blue and white illumination – to the doors and dashboard – giving the BMW X2’s interior the look of a cool German nightclub.

The M Sport X model’s machined metals and yellow stitching look like they have been inspired by a German warehouse party