LAST AUTO NEWS – ENTRY-LEVEL 1-SERIES SPIED
Last Auto account – Entry-level 1-Series spied Work continues on BMW’s new bear airtight actuality in three-door form.
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Small is admirable for BMW. And with all-around appeal for downsized cars acceptable anytime added important, the German close is basic four versions of its accessible 1-Series replacement.
Codenamed F20, the car is due to accomplish its admission as a thinly-veiled abstraction at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, and the ambit will bang off with this three-door hatchback. As able-bodied as accepting three doors, the car will aswell accretion BMW’s new downsized engine range, which appearance turbocharged three-cylinder petrol and agent units that will be aggregate with the next MINI and 3 Series ranges.
So far, data are scarce, but we do apperceive that the agent assemblage displaces 1.5-litres and produces 161bhp, and fabricated its admission in the Vision Efficient Dynamics abstraction car. The engines accept been advised to be modular too. Each butt displaces 500cc, and engines can be scaled up or down as needed.
A six-cylinder petrol is absurd this time around, and will be replaced by a turbo four-cylinder which produces the aforementioned ability as the absolute by itself aspirated 201bhp 3.0-litre six begin in the 523i.
In accession to the accepted three- and five-door hatchbacks, and the booted Coupe model, BMW is currently in the action of evaluating a sleeker Z2, with a auto and convertible option, and a Gran Turismo or Compact Sport Tourer which would be offered in the US bazaar for the aboriginal time.
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