Jeremy Clarkson: "The 135 coupé is the best car BMW makes"
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Jeremy Clarkson, from Top Gear.
"The fact of the matter is this. The 135 coup? is the best car BMW makes. I have no hesitation at all, then, in giving this long-awaited return to form the rare accolade of five stars.
Sadly, since then, the 3-series has grown into middle age. It?s become fatter and bigger and slower. Deep down, a modern 3-series is still balanced and wondrous, but the excitement, the fizz, the thrill of those early cars is gone. Buried under a ton and a half of technology and kit.
Of course, because the 3-series became so enormous, BMW was able to launch the 1-series beneath it in the lineup. And that would have been fine but unfortunately it was styled by the same chap who did Corporal Jones?s butcher?s van in Dad?s Army. Even Queen Victoria would call it old-fashioned, with its sit-up-and-beg stance, its almost vertical windscreen and those idiotic swoops on the flanks.
Now, though, BMW has given its baby hatchback a boot to create what it calls the coup?, and frankly that looks like a recipe for even more calamity and disaster. Booted hatchbacks never work. You need only look at what happened when VW turned the Golf into the Jetta to know I?m right.
And then you have only to look at the 1-series coup? to know I?m wrong. It is by no stretch of the imagination a pretty car. But neither is it offensive. Which means it has exactly the same non-styling-driven appeal of the early 1980s 323i.
What?s more, the version I tested came with a big 3 litre twin-turbo six under the bonnet. That?s 306bhp, and that?s good too.
Step inside and it gets better."
Link:
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_...icle3103294.ece
Beemed back to the wild days of youth
Jeremy Clarkson, from Top Gear.
"The fact of the matter is this. The 135 coup? is the best car BMW makes. I have no hesitation at all, then, in giving this long-awaited return to form the rare accolade of five stars.
Sadly, since then, the 3-series has grown into middle age. It?s become fatter and bigger and slower. Deep down, a modern 3-series is still balanced and wondrous, but the excitement, the fizz, the thrill of those early cars is gone. Buried under a ton and a half of technology and kit.
Of course, because the 3-series became so enormous, BMW was able to launch the 1-series beneath it in the lineup. And that would have been fine but unfortunately it was styled by the same chap who did Corporal Jones?s butcher?s van in Dad?s Army. Even Queen Victoria would call it old-fashioned, with its sit-up-and-beg stance, its almost vertical windscreen and those idiotic swoops on the flanks.
Now, though, BMW has given its baby hatchback a boot to create what it calls the coup?, and frankly that looks like a recipe for even more calamity and disaster. Booted hatchbacks never work. You need only look at what happened when VW turned the Golf into the Jetta to know I?m right.
And then you have only to look at the 1-series coup? to know I?m wrong. It is by no stretch of the imagination a pretty car. But neither is it offensive. Which means it has exactly the same non-styling-driven appeal of the early 1980s 323i.
What?s more, the version I tested came with a big 3 litre twin-turbo six under the bonnet. That?s 306bhp, and that?s good too.
Step inside and it gets better."
Link:
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_...icle3103294.ece
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I'm not surprised.......... the new Pocket Rocket
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Originally Posted by westcoast550' post='511781' date='Dec 29 2007, 07:32 PM
I'm not surprised.......... the new Pocket Rocket
But I agree the 135i is Pocket Rocket, the true 3-series successor.
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He does not know what he is talking about! The 135i has no sequential turbos but two same size units. The 35 part must have confused him thinking of the diesel Hahaha what a muppet
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Originally Posted by sapkan' post='512706' date='Jan 2 2008, 01:40 AM
He does not know what he is talking about! The 135i has no sequential turbos but two same size units. The 35 part must have confused him thinking of the diesel Hahaha what a muppet
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Originally Posted by H?kon' post='514531' date='Jan 7 2008, 05:07 AM
Oh really? The turbos is not sequential on the 135i/335i/535i? Its a regular BI-turbo?
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