2009 BMW 120d EfficientDynamics Challenge, First Drive Review

ACCORDING TO BMW, its EfficientDynamics concept is for “sporting drivers with a green heart”. What that means for BMW is designing and engineering greener cars without sacrificing performance.

After a day in the saddle of the new BMW 120d, including the opportunity to put it through its paces [...]

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AS PART OF AN UPDATE for the 2010 model year, BMW has added two new engines and two new trim packages to its 1 Series range.

Three and five-door hatch models gain Lifestyle and Sport editions, while the Coupe gains new petrol and diesel EfficientDynamics four-cylinder engines.

Labelled as the 120i and the 118d, the new Coupe engines [...]

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BMW’S VENERABLE 1 Series has been with us for a while now, and a replacement is set to arrive in showrooms sometime late next year. But while its release is still a way off, development mules are already running about Europe; giving us a few clues as to what to expect.

BMW’s trademark “whirlpool” camouflage cloaks [...]

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With emissions standards getting tougher, some manufacturers have resorted to downsizing and turbocharging their engines in a bid to meet customer and government demands.

The ‘less is more’ approach has been in full swing for a while now and it appears BMW’s 1 and 3-Series will be next to join the fray.

Sky Motoring is reporting that [...]

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Have you been eagerly awaiting the expected BMW Z2 ‘baby’ sports convertible? We have…

Sadly but not unexpectedly given the global fiscal rogering that is well into its stride, it appears that the world’s press just may have been jumping at shadows on this occasion.

Our friends over at the UK motoring site iMotor contacted us overnight [...]

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Following the extremely conceptual BMW 1 Series Coupe Super Sport sketch and rumour we reported on this morning, an astute reader of the UK’s Car Magazine has snapped photos in the street of a 1 Series with a carbon-fibre roof.

Ordinarily the domain of BMW’s M division, the carbon-fibre-roofed 1 Series spied by a certain Rainer Wargitsch [...]

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If the team at Car Magazine are right, BMW will deliver an M-division-prepped 1 Series Coupe - to be dubbed the 1 Series Coupe Super Sport - sometime in 2012.

You might be wondering why it wouldn’t simply be called ‘M1′, but BMW already has a M1 in its stable (albeit retired) and that’s the iconic [...]

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BMW 1 Series exceeds 10,000 Australian deliveries
75 percent increase in 1 Series sales in 2008
Coupé and Convertible dominate sports car segment

When the 1 Series first arrived in Australia, BMW dubbed it “The One For Drivers”.

It seems those drivers agree, with sales for the first month topping 700 units and, in the first year, more than [...]

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It looks as though we are not the only ones to have taken a shine to the BMW 1 Series Coupe, with the news that BMW’s little two-door has just taken out top honours in the 2008 Golden Steering Wheel Awards.

Dr. Norbert Reithofer, the Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, was on hand to receive the [...]

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