If you want to purchase a car with superior quality, exciting ride and ultimate competency, then BMW production should be your final decision. BMW 1 Series includes a vast variety of engines i.e. all from economical ones to exclusive ones. Unluckily its back wheel drive set up fails to impress its customers as it holds less space in comparison to its opponents like Volkswagen Golf and Ford Focus.
As we, all know that BMW 1 Series is a premium vehicle and it appears expensive but it is also undeniable that it is impressively and efficiently equipped with smart features across the entire range and its residual values are notable because of being reasonable. All the engines are muscular and good performers whereas the diesels proposing decent low-rev flexibility and the top of the range M140i model is really a hot hatchback.
The petrol range starts along with the 118i, which utilizes a 134bhp version of BMW’s 1.6-Litre petrol engine. The smart 120i and 125i both get a 2.0-Litre engine and the M140i involves a twin-turbo 3.0-Litre straight six to produce 335bhp. The 116i was lowered down with the 2015 facelift, and the M135i became the M140i in year 2016. The update observed BMW involve a three-cylinder engine to the 1 Series range for the very first time – specifically the 115bhp 1.5-Litre engine also established the MINI Cooper D and badged 116d here. The models 118d, 120d and 125d stick along with a larger four-cylinder 2.0-Litre diesel engine, tuned for various power outputs.
Even the 118i will perform 0-62mph in 8.5 seconds and strike a top speed of 130mph, while the 120i does the dash in 7.4 seconds, the 125i and M140 in about 6.4s and 4.9s respectively. These are all speedy cars, and though the M140i is the best sounding because of its six-cylinders, the remaining four-cylinder engines have a soft thrum all the way to the redline. None of them ever seems breathless if you’re in the accurate gear.
Outfitted along with the eight-speed automatic gearbox, the M140i will thump 62mph even quicker, in 4.6 seconds, though back in the 1 Series’ heartland the upper-end four-cylinder diesel models – decent 120d and 125d – feel almost as swift around town. That’s because they show off 400Nm and 450Nm torque correspondingly – the latter only a little bit less than the M140i, and offered as an automatic only.
Debatably the most impressive engine overall, nonetheless, is the abovementioned three-cylinder diesel unit located in the 116d and 116d Efficient Dynamics Plus.
Along with only three cylinders, it handles to haul the 1 Series along nicely, and even if it’s not the keenest to rev, with 270Nm it has 50Nm additional torque than the 118i, so it’s a bendable motor. It sounds amusing enough too, with BMW having subdued most of the diesel rattle. Given that it’s a three-cylinder diesel it’s astonishingly smooth, both at inactive and full tilt.
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