If BMW isn’t willing to give us an authentic M-ified 1 Series, we’ll have to settle for the next best thing, and that’s the M135i, the latest performance package from the marque’s motorsport division.

Antony Ingram October 17, 2012 Comment Now! While European carmakers are slowly coming around to the concept of releasing their best products in the U.S., there are still a few cars denied to American ...

Justin Cupler has been a member of the TopSpeed team since 2012. Justin's love for cars started back when he was just five years old, helping his dad work on his 1957 Chevy Bell Air and then his 1966 ...

Need somebody to bore you with ideal bore to stroke ratios, or the intricacies of how variable valve timing works? Ask Andrei and watch the hours roll by… He’s also quite a strange bloke who never ...

BMW recently announced a new M Performance line of vehicles that will slot between the company’s everyday models and the M lineup. In the brief period since the announcement, Europe has been bestowed ...

Nelson Ireson July 16, 2012 Comment Now! The U.S won't be getting the M135i hatchback. Color us unsurprised, but the latest word is that BMW North America simply can't bring the car here--even though ...

The refreshed version of a modern cult: the BMW M135i. When the ugly-but-fast M Performance 1er arrived in late 2012, it sported a unique combination in the hot hatch melting pot: a straight-six ...

Until just a few days before your reading it, the start of this story was quite different. It was built on the premise that this - the littlest performance BMW - had turned the brand’s performance ...

Yes,the BMW M135i shown at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show was but a concept, but as we reported at the time, it closely foreshadowed a forthcoming production vehicle. Now that BMW's unwrapped the ...

Just this once, could we forget about the latest-gen BMW 1 Series being front- instead of rear-wheel drive-biased? No? OK, at least we tried. Putting its understeering nature behind, let’s move on to ...

We were only saying last month how BMW is not only giving american motorists the same equipment as Europe, but also providing some options not available to drivers across the Atlantic (M5 6MT, X1 35i) ...

The 1-series is a close relative of the 2-series coupe, which means it is based on a rear-wheel-drive architecture with longitudinally mounted engines. The chassis carries over from the 2-series and ...