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Georg Kacher,
15 January 2013 09:32
BMW is plotting a small, 1-series saloon to rival Mercedes’ CLA and Audi’s forthcomingA3 Sportlimousine – and the big news is that this £19,000 four-door will be front-wheel drive. In May 2010, BMW publicly announced it would use the 2013 Mini’s front-wheel drive platform for a string of BMWs, and its 2012 Active Tourer concept showed the proportions of a ...
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Georg Kacher and Pembroke Tenneson (artist's impression by Christian Schulte),
10 May 2012 09:41
BMW is working on the next 1-series convertible - but it will arrive in 2014 badged as a 2-series. Given the number and variety of separate models coming from BMW, it comes as no surprise that some name-shuffling is necessary. Like Mercedes, Munich is having to rejig its range to accommodate the flurry of new metal, so the next 1-series coupe and convertible ...
We've snapped some spy video footage of the new BMW M135i on test in Germany ahead of its launch in late 2012. It's a good chance to see and hear BMW's newest hot hatch in action, with its turbocharged 3.0-litre straight six deploying some 300bhp. This is the roadgoing iteration of the Concept M135i shown at the 2012 Geneva motor ...
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Tim Pollard,
27 March 2012 14:20
Remember the BMW Concept M135i at the 2012 Geneva motor show? We said it would portend a road car - the new £30k 1-series hot hatch - and here it is, testing at the Nurburgring. Our spy photographers have caught the 300bhp-plus BMW 1-series as it undergoes durability testing at high speed in Germany. Remind me of the background of the BMW ...
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Georg Kacher (artist's impressions Christian Schulte),
26 May 2011 06:17
This is the new 2011 BMW 1-series, Munich's mid-sized hatch which bows in later this summer. Our artist's impressions show a smoother evolution of the existing 1-series silhouette, with a markedly more aggressive, forward-leaning 'shark nose' effect to the front end of the F20 1-series. The new 1-series family will go on sale later in 2011. Although front-wheel drive BMWs ...
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Mark Hamilton,
28 April 2011 09:33
Our spy photographers have switched to video mode to capture footage of BMW's upcoming F20 1-series hatchback testing at the Nurburgring in Germany. Our footage shows the five-door edition of the F20 1-series testing at speed on the Nurburgring, and being tailed by our spy on roads near the famous circuit. Hasn't BMW ditched the binbag disguise on the new 1-series yet? Not ...
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Mark Hamilton,
29 March 2011 11:10
Our spy photographers have caught the next-generation BMW 1-series five-door hatchback out for a spot of track-testing. It's a good chance for a look at the F20-era 1-series ahead of its launch in autumn 2011. BMW 1-series F20: still the ugly duckling of the BMW range? Our new spy photos show that the new 2012 1-series may be less divisive than the ...
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Tim Pollard,
22 April 2010 10:17
BMW is testing a new M-fettled version of the 1-series Coupé in readiness for a 2011 launch. The two-door 1-series will slot above the 135i and is rumoured to pack the 3.0-litre straight six from the 535i. Our photographers shot the car – which could yet revive the M1 badge, although there are factions who prefer a simpler M suffix ...
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Tim Pollard,
18 January 2010 13:25
On Friday we brought you spy photos of the new BMW 1-series Coupé due in 2012. Now we've got some long-lens spy video footage of the engineering test hack, sliding around during winter testing.Just goes to show that all this cold-weather testing isn't all hard slog; we can't imagine those engineers not enjoying some sideways fun on ice, as they ...
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Ben Pulman,
15 January 2010 14:05
These are the first pictures of the new BMW 1-series Coupé coming in 2012. Caught cold-weather testing in Scandinavia, this is an early mule for the next-gen coupé: prototypes of the regular 1-series hatchback have been spied on the road for a while now. Nice pictures, but will the real BMW 1-series Coupé be a looker? That’s the plan. BMW’s ...
