Test drive BMW 1 E87 2004 - 2007 hatchback

Cinderella's carriage

Crossing BMW’s wheel, a person changes not only the car, but also the behavior manner, which becomes very aggressive. So, after a week of driving, 118i BMW reported an old woman for violating the rules of the road. She crossed the road to red, I rode to green. She so unfriendly gestured to me that I did not fail to stop and, let's say softly, explain to her that she was wrong. What, I hope, prolonged her life - to the joy of her children and grandchildren.
Not only you change your attitude to the world, the world also begins to treat you differently. It is one thing - a girl with blond hair itself. She is always pretty for men. Another thing is the same girl, but already at the wheel, even the most modest, but still BMW, the cost of which gravitates to thirty thousand euros. Men who cannot afford to have such a car are full of answers to the question of how stupid this is, in their opinion, the creature managed to get it.
And in my unsuccessful search for a petank club, I cut circles around the BSA Luzhniki. I did not find the right entrance to me, then I spectacularly slowed down near three idle guards. Explaining how to find this entrance, one of them, once again translating my eyes from my radiant smile to the no less radiant unit of BMW, decided that I clearly had little a brief explanation.
- On the door of the entrance, a piece of paper with a figure of ten will hang. These are the numbers one and zero. Do you know such numbers?
The traffic police were more condescending, caught me with my whole family on board. At the analysis of flights after violation of the speed mode, which is modest in appearance 118th constantly provoking violating, they first looked around the car, then for some reason stubbornly mowed the size of the fines.
- Do you know how speed you rode at? - The traffic cop is trying to look very strict.
- Yes, it seems not very fast.
We sit in him in a patrol car.
- The video camera recorded 116 km/h. Will we draw up a protocol?
I nod my head. Where were their radars when I was driving 160 and I overtook Lexus, quickly becoming a point on the horizon?
- One hundred rubles is normal? - as if he apologizes. - We cannot record less, all data on you were automatically transmitted to the central dispatch.
I am wondering how many hundred euros would cost me these 56 km in excess of the norm in Europe. And he still carefully offers me to wait for the rain with him in a patrol car. No, thank you, it’s better to be displeased with all my mother behind, but in a penny BMW.
Mom managed to remain a displeased even brand new Beshechka. Mom was inconvenient to sit in her, get out of her and in general, something every bump beats in my side.
“This is because the suspension is tough,” we tried to moderate her anger. Although the husband was also dissatisfied with the fact that I ride too slowly, and that he fits behind only with his legs extended in the seat. From solidarity with relatives, I was also unhappy with a damn inconvenient rear review. This car is not for slow driving back, but for fast - forward. And better than one, so as not to listen to passenger discontent.
But the low -size one does not make it so pathos, which all the other BMW differs. She does not bother with her appearance of others. And the neighbors in the garden partnership do not yet feel the strength for class hatred, and the construction team of good -natured Tajiks does not raise the prices for painting a country house. And on the Rublevo-Uspensky Highway you are on it-your own among yours, and the Luxury Village parkors treat you the same way you are at Bentley, contemptuously looking at the brand new Camry. The magic of the brand does its job.
Implemented by this magic from the top of the head to the heels, I unload the lawn mower at the entrance from the trunk (do you believe it, she climbed there). The fifth in the thirty -ninth body is burning out to me, the owner of which also begins the unloading of summer cottages, simultaneously issuing me the business card of his car service. But then my three -year -old son Vanya appears from a penny and says:
- And we have a car- BMW!
“Uncle also has BMW,” I sniff him.
- And we have a new one! - He does not calm down.
“Yes, here I pumped up a little,” the man smiles.
“They gave it to us,” Vanya summarizes. And then he insinuatingly looks at me and says: “I also want that, childish.” Will we buy today?

Text Anna Kilimnik
Photo by Vasily Shaposhnikov

BMW 118i
 
Gasoline engine, 4 cylinders, ahead
Working volume (cubic cub) 1995
Power (L.S. at rpm) 129 at 5750
Moment (nm at rpm) 180 at 3250
Length/width/height (mm) 4225/1750/1430
Fuel consumption (highway/city/average) 6.1/10.7/7.8
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 10.1
MAX. Speed \u200b\u200b(km/h) 204

Costs (05/20/06-19.06.06. Mileage 2157 km)
Total mileage 10431 km
Gasoline 5300 rub.
Moika 700 rub.
Parking (night) 2850 rub.
Fulfillment (speed excess) 200 rubles.
 

Source: "Autopilot"