This is the all-new third-generation BMW 1-series that competes for neck and neck with German folks such as the Mercedes-Benz A-Class and Audi A3. 2020 BMW 1 Series: 118i and M135i Top 10 Things You Need to Know
1.Grill
The new one series hasn’t quite got the flared nostrils you’ll seat on the front of the X7. Its grill is bigger than before and it follows the design on the new 3-series with the kidneys merging in the middle. The car’s new face is completed with new slanting headlights that can come as full LEDs. Which looks the coolest the new BMW 1 Series, the Audi A3, the Mercedes A-class or the Volkswagen Golf.
2. Space
The switch from rear-wheel drive to front-wheel drive means that while the new one series is shorter than the previous model. The old cars slightly cramped interior was one of the main complaints of owners. Many of whom never even knew nor cared theirs. Little BMW was driven by its rear wheels. However, they will notice that in this new version Lynnie’s room, elbow room, and Headroom are all improved. The boot is a bigger tube, in fact, it’s now larger than a Mercedes A class which is important in German premium cars wore upmanship.
3. Infotainment
The new series gets a 9-inch touchscreen on the dashboard. You can operate it with the iDrive will control it between the front seats. You can upgrade to a 10-inch touchscreen which you can also operate with gesture controls. Which means that you can wave your hands around like an idiot to do stuff like turn up the volume. The upgrade also replaces the analog driver doors with digital ones that can show sat-nav instructions between the speedo and the rev counter.
4. Drive
The new Bond series shares lots of its parts with the MINI Countryman and a BMW 2 Series Active Tourer. However, engineers spent five years developing the cars front-wheel-drive handling. So that it drives a sporting elite as one series should they have even fitted it with something called contiguous wheel slip limitation. Which is supposed to help improve traction when pulling away cornering and driving in the wet.
5. Prices
The BMW 118i from $42,990 will start at just over plus on-road costs, and the BMW M135i from $63,990 plus on-road costs.
6. Assistant
The new one series can come with BMWs intelligent personal assistant works a bit like Apple Siri. You activate it by saying hey BMW before telling it. What you want it will do basic stuff like buy a destination into the second Avenue and increase the climates. If you say I’m cold and if you say hey BMW I’m tired it will turn up the aircon, the music, and the ambient lighting to help wake you up.
7. Engines
This new BMW is available with the range of petrol and diesel power already used in the mini and the 2 Series Active tourer. The one 180 I have a three-cylinder, 1.5-liter turbo petrol that’s capable of around 50 miles per gallon. It can go from naught to 60 in just eight point five seconds which isn’t bad. Meanwhile, the one-one 6d has a 1.5 liter 3-cylinder diesel that should be good for seventy miles per gallon. The two-liter one one eight diesel should manage around 65 miles per gallon. Then there’s the higher power all-wheel-drive 120 D X Drive which can do around 60 miles per gallon. Of course, both manual and automatic gearboxes are available.
8. Parking
You can get the new one series with what BMW calls an innovative reversing assistant. If you managed to get the car stuck in a confined space and you have to reverse out. The car will do the hard work for you. You can actually remember your steering inputs for the last 50 meters and basically plays them in Reverse. The car simply goes back on the same line that it came in at so while the car steers itself. All you have to do is work the accelerator and the brakes.
9. Four-Wheel Drive
There is another concern this setup means no more awesome three-liter straight-six engine for the hot petrol version. Instead, the 36 thousand pounds range-topping m135i has a two-liter engine. Still, it does have twin turbos 306 horsepower and 415 Newton meters of torque making it BMWs most powerful force center engine ever. Thanks to all-wheel drive an 8-speed Auto with launch control and a limited-slip differential. It can do naught to 60 in 4.8 seconds certainly though. Won’t power slide like the old m14 TI which surely is the whole point of a heart BMW.
10. M135i
The M135i has its own design of a kidney grille with a mesh pattern in a unique gray color replacing the standard bars to help mark it out. It sits on 18-inch alloy wheels there
you can upgrade to lightweight 19-inch ones round the back. The spoiler is longer than on the standard car and has a slight upturn that BMW says helps aerodynamics also. There are a couple of real chrome exhaust pipes every 100 millimeters in diameter. So no need for the car why sticker truth on this version then.
