Test drive BMW 1 E87 2004 - 2007 hatchback

Love me like that

If you are ready to put up with its shortcomings, this hot little thing will give you such sensations that not one of her rival is able to give.


Marketers are to blame for everything. It was they who decided that BMW could be a small golf class. You see, according to their estimates, in the next 10 years, sales of prestigious brands will grow at the most intense pace at 80% in the folk segment.
 

Interestingly, that king of the mountain on a hefty black barn who is trying to drive me from the left row with the light of headlights, heard that now the Bavarians are small? Surely not. Otherwise, he would react to our Red BMW-116 where with great respect. However, on that day in close Moscow, the lack of the usual owner of the BMW manifestations of politeness, I felt especially acutely. Many seemed to be considered below their dignity to endure a plain stern of some unknown breed in front. And I must say, unpleasant surprises lurked not only in this.


Ah, I'm all so sudden ...
It is as if woven from countless contradictions. Even externally. Say, in comparison with her side by side, the alternate of the X5, our unit seemed just a nymphage. But when one is worth it, but if you look at it in front, it looks fit and unusually aggressive.
 

Throwing the bag onto the rear sofa (and having a good nape on the low jamb), I somehow immediately sharpened about the salon is more spacious. Opponents of the people's class that have grown up in recent years in breadth and upward.
 

However, sitting down in a dense, by no means leather, but from this no less pretty and comfortable driver's chair, as if in a different car I found myself. A low landing, in front of my eyes, the hood with a hump, the back was tightly wrapped in the back, a wonderful three -spitting steering wheel in the hands, and through the rear window, as if through the dot’s embrasure, almost nothing is visible. I suddenly remembered a completely different BMW remarkable Z3M compartment. Is the 1st series the same sports car?
 

Is very similar. Only in general, the interior is much more modern, more attractive and, most importantly, the salon is by no means as close as it seemed at first. The abundance of adjustments of the chair and the steering wheel allows you to comfortably get a high driver. Passengers on the back sofa are not offended. The doorway is really low and excessively narrowed below. But with a rather low (38 cm below all their rivals in the class) the roof and high rapids of Bavarian engineers managed to maintain an extremely successful layout. The fact is that the one has the largest wheelbase of 2660 mm and a rather low and deep rear sofa. That is why even a high dim person inside is quite spacious.

 
   
Ostrrong Damn the start of the engine using the button

It is spacious on the back sofa, but the doorway narrowed in the lower part of the doorway.

Two-zone climate control in the database does not even have a BMW of the 3rd series


Designers successfully emphasized the driver. There are many stylish inserts for aluminum. Devices are greeted with red backlight. Part of the central console with a convenient 2-zone climate control and stereo system is deployed to the driver. Just like in the good old Dobringov times. In short, everything is just wonderful inside, isn't it? No matter how!

 
   
Thanks to the additional exits of the musical system, passengers on the back sofa can use headphones

For better visibility, the central rear headrest can be folded horizontally

The trunk seems modest in size, but in fact its volume can be varied from 330 to 1150 liters


Could the windows buttons could not be higher? After all, it is inconvenient, in fact. Is it really difficult to foresee at least a couple of cup holders in the database? There was not a single one in our car. A trifle, will you say? Maybe so. But it’s embarrassing to somehow forget about the little things, equipping the car with such a fashionable thing as the engine starting on the front panel.
 

But enough, perhaps, grumble. We insert a key card into the groove, touch the start button, and all 115 liters. With. At our service.
 



From hatred to love
In vain, I thought that this power for BMW would be very small. Enough in the city and on the highway. The street, another, a series of traffic lights, rebuilding, and I completely forget about the small flaws of ergonomics.
 

From the very first touches to the floor, but what else? The gas pedal is captivated by responsiveness. It turns out that it is possible to comply with the EVRO IV norms, and not to lose the excitement. At the fourth, little BMW does not mind going from 40. And how he perked up when I allowed to nimble in the range of 45 thousand! Maybe here by mistake a 2-liter engine was installed?
 

So with the dynamics of acceleration in the instructions, probably something was confused. They write 10.8 s, and it feels much less. It is a pity to switch for one to two tenths a rather long clutch and lever KP. But already at 120130 km/h, this defect fades into the background. Because the car retains excellent pickup from such speeds on the fifth. There is no other small-leaf with a 1.6-liter engine that can accelerate so much in the world.
 

It seems that only a few seconds flew by, and the speedometer hand is already 180 km/h. Moreover, it feels 130140, no more. Only passing all the way with greater ease. This is the case in excellent aerodynamics (coefficient of 0.29), well -chosen gears and excellent sound insulation. The young ambitious owner will probably please such a supply of superiority. Even at a very high speed there is almost no vertical swing or annoying departments to the side. How did you achieve this? It is worth saying about this.
 
Options are possible

The 1st series with three gasoline engines, with a 5-speed automatic transmission and 5- or 6-speed mechanics are delivered to Russia. Even the basic BMW-116i is generously equipped. For 22,900 euros you get 6 airbags, ABS with an emergency braking amplifier, a trajectory stabilization system, climate control, stereo system, fog lights, on-board computer, tire pressure sensors, and anterior seats heated. BMW-118i for 24,900 euros with a 1.8-liter engine with a capacity of 129 liters. With. More dynamic (209 km/h; 9.4 s). The equipment is slightly more generous here: finishing the salon with improved cloth, titanium inserts, rear electric windows. Having paid 1800 euros, you will receive an automatic. And, finally, the top-top 128-12-400 euros is a 150-horsepower 2-liter engine, impressive 217 km/h and 8.7 s to hundreds, leather decoration of the salon, light alloy wheels, cup holders, rain and parking sensors. The machine for this modification will cost 1,500 euros.




Five seconds for thought
First of all, an independent suspension was set up in such a way that even at very high speeds to maintain a proprietary character of the character of Bavarian machines magnificent stability on the trajectory. I liked that in the city BMW is in no hurry to report on his sports ambitions. The car completely serene passes the Moscow asphalt dotted with potholes. It does not transmit the spine on how much the paving stones are broken on Presnya. Only on bedridled police officers trembles, perhaps, a little stronger than the golf class car is supposed.
 

The suspension materials were selected so as to maintain equal weightlift along the axes. If the front from the levers to the subframe was made of aluminum, then the rear, in order to load with a larger mass, from steel. The result is on almost all cars of the 1st series, the weightlifter 50:50. Only on the 116th ratio looks like 603 to 602 kg. But in order for the microscopic this deviation from the ideal to at least somehow affect the fighting character of the machine, I admit, I never felt.
 

There is in a driver’s song named BMV-116 and another singed an excellent steering wheel. From the emphasis to the stop, he makes the three revolutions familiar to many and at the same time has a gear ratio of 13.7: 1 the smallest in the classroom. By the ability to make sharp, but not the nervous rudders of the Bavarians and this time did not change themselves. Without reset speed, the car can be briskly and safely shifted from one turn to another. It is unceremonious to begin acceleration on the arc and by effort on the steering wheel to know clearly about the position of the wheel.
 

Moreover, ESP works no worse here than on other BMW. She reacts quickly, does not interfere much and is endowed with three work modes. If you do not touch the DTC shutdown buttons on the central panel, the machine will help you go through the turns not only to brake wheels, but also dosing the fuel supply. It is worth clicking the button once, the electronics will only slightly loosen reins. When accelerating with a pedal into the floor of the wheel, they will slip only 5% more. For the most intensive acceleration, this is the best option. The third mode is like a gin from a bottle. Keep the DTC button for another four to five seconds. All! Now the car slipped precisely when I expect it. On dry asphalt, I can pass familiar turns at a speed at which the best golf class control was controlled. But if you are already carried away, only rely on yourself. Just these few seconds, while the stabilization system was completely turned off, and was your last opportunity to think. In sliding, this baby is an uncompromising athlete who does not forgive mistakes.
 



Your first BMW
In this, it is all wayward, ardent, with a tough character, not the most convenient salon. You must admit that with such an arsenal talents on mass circulations in the people's class do not have to count. Who will love this? The Germans believe that these are young people from 20 to 40 years old, for whom a unit will be the first BMW. And introduce them to the feeling of a real rear -wheel drive drive.
 

Safe, generously equipped, even with a basic motor is rapid, inside giving a feeling of expensive sports car and, most importantly, standing on the head of a head above any golf-class car, it will probably not be left without attention. In the end, in Russia there will be those for whom a car with a treasured propeller on a hood for 22,900 euros per 5 thousand is cheaper than the most affordable three -linket attractive offer. Eh, if even with a non-casual stern it was possible to come up with something ...

 
PER

Generous equipment that instantly gains the motor, good maneuverability, excellent controllability, high level of soundproofing, sensation of an expensive sports car
AGAINST

Ergonomics flaws, controversial appearance, lack of a spurt, long moves of the KP lever and adhesion pedals
 
BMW 116i

common data
 
Body (number of places/doors)
hatchback (5/5)
 
Equipped mass, kg
1205
 
Length x width x height, mm
4227x1751x1430
 
Base, mm
2660
 
The diameter of the turn, m
10.7
 
Road clearance, mm
145
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
10.8
 
Speed, km/h
200
 



Engine
 
Working volume, SMZ
1596
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
115/6000
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
15.3/4300
 

Chassis
 
Transmission
Mechanical, 5-speed
 
Suspension
Independent, with stabilizers of anti -resistance stability
 
front
Type McEzerson
 
behind
Mollycent
 
Brakes
Disco in front are ventilated
 
Tires
195/55 R16
 
Alexey Sergeev, photo of Maxim Goncharov

 
 

Source: Magazine buy a car [21/2004]