Road Test
M135i is fast but it doesn’t evoke legends of the past
With no bellowing ghost in the machine, it’s an entirely new way of liking or disliking the flagship, says Phuti Mpyane
06 February 2020 - 05:11
To the uninitiated, perhaps when the BMW 1 Series first arrived in 2004 it was the same as any other hatch in those days but the cooking ingredients couldn’t be more different.
It was rear-wheel driven, as well as very fast, drifty and melodious when fitted with a 3.0l straight-six engine...
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