BMW to Help Toyota Develop 1 Series Rival - Report
3 Sep 2014, 08:29 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The joint-venture between BMW and Toyota could span more than just sport cars, as most news outlets hurried to claim. According to Japan’s Best Car magazine, the Asian manufacturer is planning...
Taking a Rental BMW 125i for a Nurburgring Lap Looks like Fun
23 Aug 2014, 12:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Are 218 HP enough to have fun in a proper car on the Nurburgring? Apparently yes, if you know what you’re doing, of course. The guys from Bridge to Gantry took a rental for a lap on the ...
Facelift BMW 1 Series Inches Closer to Production
22 Aug 2014, 16:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Our trusted spy photographers have been hard on the tail of the upcoming BMW 1 Series LCI model and they just snapped a couple of photos of the 3-door version testing in Germany. The car seems to...
Audi RS3 Chases Down BMW M135i on Track
13 Aug 2014, 11:26 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / This is how all disputes should be handled: on the track, with professional supervision. Surely you’ve been challenged to a sort of race by a driver with a car that is a direct rival to your o...
BMW 1 Series to Return to the US in 2017, with Front-Wheel Drive
5 Aug 2014, 11:56 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Even though the US market is its second biggest in the world, BMW doesn’t offer all of its models on the North American continent. Out of the complete line-up, at the moment, the 1 Series is m...
BMW UKL Platform Could Underpin a Dozen Forthcoming Models
3 Aug 2014, 18:10 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / When the Bavarian carmaker told the automotive media that front-wheel drive is the way to go for the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer, many fans of the breed were skeptical about this move. However, a rec...
BMW 1 Series Sedan Rendered
21 Jul 2014, 16:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Since BMW decided to attack all possible niches, inventing a couple of its own in the process as well, rendering a new one shouldn’t surprise anyone. That’s why Theophilus Chin’s t...
2015 BMW 1 Series Facelift Spied with a New Face
14 Jul 2014, 09:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It seems like BMW will change the face of the 1 Series with the facelift that is due next year, a car wearing new headlights being spotted out testing by our spy photographers today. The design remi...
BMW F21 M135i Facelift Goes Out for Tests Barely Camouflaged
10 Jul 2014, 09:04 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Launched back in 2011, the second 1 Series model in BMW’s history is bound to get a mild facelift in 2015. The updated version is already testing and our spy photographers caught up with it, o...
BMW 1 Series Facelift Rolls Into View
27 Jun 2014, 12:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW’s current cheapest car, the 1 Series, is about to get a fresh face, when celebrating its fourth anniversary, next spring. The Life Cycle Impulse for the F20 platform is set to start produc...
2018 BMW 1 Series Will Go Through Some Drastic Changes
10 Jun 2014, 15:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It’s no longer news that the upcoming BMW 1 Series will undergo a drastic changeover, migrating from the architecture it uses today to the UKL platform that will make it more profitable and ea...
BMW 1 Series Has E92 M3 Engine to Play Around With
20 May 2014, 14:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The previous BMW E92 M3 was a great car, don’t get us wrong, but while the S65 engine under the bonnet made your skin crawl every time, the sheer size of the car made it rather different from ...
Manhart Racing Teases Special M235i Model
15 Apr 2014, 14:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / A lot of people these days compare the BMW M235i with its hatchback brother, the M135i and, while both of them are great cars, they aren’t the same. The Coupe has more power and better styl...
Eye Candy: BMW M135i Gets 2 Series Face
12 Apr 2014, 14:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / We already saw BMW testing the facelifted 1 Series prototypes around the world a couple of weeks back and the first thought that crossed our mind was immediately related to the new 2 Series. If t...
BMW M135i M Performance Special Edition Is... Weird!
21 Mar 2014, 17:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Culture is a wonderful thing. Go around the world and you’ll notice that every country has its own habits, its own way of saying thank you and specific means to make you feel... Different. ...
Rendering: 2015 BMW 1 Series Facelift
20 Mar 2014, 15:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The current BMW F20 1 Series will turn 4 next year and will receive the traditional facelift of Life Cycle Impulse from its creators. That means we’ll probably get rid of the ugly, curious fis...
Extreme BMW ECU Tuning: 193 HP for 116d
5 Mar 2014, 12:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Tuning cars these days seems to be going out of control. When one decides to give his/her car more power, he has to ask himself this one question: is it worth it? Now, I’m not talking about...
KTW Launches Black And White Package For BMW 1 Series
18 Feb 2014, 17:34 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Not all tuning companies build exterior mods for BMW, but if they did, the F20 generation of the 1 Series would probably need them the most. This what the Germans from KTW Tuning probably thought...
BMW 118d Chip Tuning: 188 HP by Digiservices
17 Feb 2014, 10:50 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The BMW 1er hatch is the sort of car many dream of but few can afford. BMW's compact is a lot more expensive than a normal hatch like a VW Golf. The reason: rear wheel drive architecture and mo...
BMW 123d Chip Tuning: 268 HP by Digiservices
9 Feb 2014, 20:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / I will be honest with you guys: the BMW 123d still sounds like the kind of car I’d like to own, and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone on this one. Yes, the first-generation 1 Series...