Should you buy one?

At a fundamental level, the BMW X2 has all the hallmarks of a nice piece of work. It’s spacious inside for a relatively small, sporty SUV coupe, and seems to have been put together by people who care about what they’re doing.

But the interior is a bit – dare we say – boring, and the trend for removing more and more physical controls is one we really wish carmakers would get over. While we’re told it will all be voice control soon, for that to be affective it needs to work flawlessly, and that’s not the case here.

More problematic still is the ride comfort, or rather, the lack of it. The suspension is so firm it tends to make the rest of the car feel clumsy, and although this M35i variant we’ve been testing can be driven quickly, there’s not much satisfaction to be derived from this.

In short, it’s good, but we didn’t really like it very much. On this evidence the X2 won’t be troubling our list of the best SUVs any time soon, though perhaps the sDrive20i version will change our mind once we’ve driven it.