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NRMA Drivers Seat - 2011 BMW 1 Series

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With the 1 Series M Sport, BMW's stuck a fantastic engine in a fantastic little handling package and then tweaked that handling package to be even better. And at around $60k cheaper than an M3, it's a wee ripper.

Talk to a BMW engineer and they'll talk your legs off explaining just what's gone into producing the new 1 Series M Sport. But, when you actually break it down, the philosophy is an age-old and simple one. And that is, you take a beefy engine drop it beneath the bonnet of an insanely well-balanced and smallish car and wall-ah you end up with a giant killer. Peugeot did it with the 205 GTi, VW did it with the Golf GTi and so on and so forth...

Indeed, the new BMW 1 Series M Sport is so good we'll tell you right now, that if you were thinking about a new M3 you needn't bother. This thing is just as good (in fact, it might actually be better) and it's about $60k cheaper.

The only problem is that every single car that BMW could get its hands on (100) has been sold. Even the new batch (another 100 cars) it managed to get have all been sold too; it's an instant classic, you see.

Looking at the car it's clear to see the 1M means business. From the M gills, to the quad pipes at the back, and that skin-stretched-tight-over-rippling-muscle body, the 1 Series M Sport is easily the best looking M car for a long time. And we're so glad BMW chose not to build this car off the new-look 1 Series, because it's as ugly as sin.

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