Test drive BMW 1 E87 2004 - 2007 hatchback

City Shpan

Lovers do not like everything and lay out everything on the shelves. Because they do not know which class we should be attributed to and which shelf to put. Formally, we kind of like golfs, but for some reason not like everyone else. Some suspiciously rear-wheel drive-this circumstance alone is already annoying someone. Golf class users also do not like us. They do not consider us for our own, we are white crows for them. Or maybe they just envy. But this is all, believe me, does not care at all. We ourselves go very well in our unique rear-wheel drive golf class.
If you approach a Bavarian penny with the standards and requests of a typical golf class user, then this machine is, in principle, a permissible, but not the most logical choice. The one who needs a practical string bag on wheels for daily windings for shameful city matters will surely prefer something cheaper and at the same time more common. Only the driver really feel in our penny (in this case it is me) and the front passenger, but the rear passengers lead life is not very free. Those of my colleagues who sit behind me, one might say, was lucky with me - nature has measured 176 cm Rostochka. Therefore, they, people are predominantly grenadier-growth, have the opportunity to sit without pressing their knees to the ears, but only slightly resting with them (knees, not ears) on the back of my seat. When I, getting acquainted with the car, sat down behind myself, I did not experience much discomfort, but I didn’t feel the room either-there there are sectors strictly in a sawn-off shotgun, tick-in-tick. I know that in the golf class car is significantly more spacious.
As for the cargo capacity, then everything, too, can be said, in a cut. With the installed rear seats, the trunk accommodates only 330 liters - it will not be enough. Yes, and in the full load mode, there is generally nothing to brag about the penny-1150 liters. Acceptable, but nothing more.
 
However, let's not approach this model from such national economic positions. In the end, there are a lot of utilitarian Avoseck in the golf class, but truly driverships-one or two were admitted. And the Bavarian penny must be considered primarily as a driver-car-everything else in it is secondary.
 
How she goes! She is just gorgeous, very tasty, rides. So, as the BMW car should go. Here's what is especially interesting, in particular, our BMW 118i: both the maximum speed is definitely not the most record (204 km/h), and the accelerated edification is not the most impressive (10.1 s to hundreds), but in a dilated city driving mode we are if desired. we are easily drawn with obviously more powerful and fast cars. On straight, of course, we lose to someone, but we take our own in zigzags. For example, we pass turns at a much higher speed than the vast majority of stream neighbors do. The others in these turns are crucified (who is slightly godless), but we are not. Do you know such journalistic stamps: stand on the trajectories as a glove or go like rails? So, this is about us. We are very nimble, prayer, tenacious and hard.
 
It is clear that any hatch can be charged in sports, and then it will be a hot hatch. And we don’t really need to charge us. In the BMW 118i (as, indeed, in other modifications of a penny), in the most ordinary serial version, everything (well, or almost all) is imprisoned for an aggressive drive - the amusing is perfect, the suspension is compressed, the steering wheel is sharp, the brakes ... Yes, what's there To say, you yourself know what the brakes have ... amazing, almost racing, the settings of all this around the motor periphery completely compensate for the relatively modest engine of the engine. If the 118th is not quite a hot hatch, then certainly close to that is very warm.
 
Yes, you look at him - he radiates aggression with all his appearance. In the form of, perhaps, there is more awareness than the older bimers in the class. They at least somehow try to pretend to be solid, and this one is a frank city bully, Shpan Zamoskvoretskaya ... or what is there-Zareinskaya? Uzoderskaya?
No, in public business I will go to something else. You can, of course, on it, but it will already be a loss of style.

Text Sergey Sorokin, photo Alexander Antonov
 

BMW 118i
 
The engine is gasoline,
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 (04/18/06-19.05.06. Mileage 2524 km)
Total mileage 8274 km
Gasoline 5700 rub.
Moika 600 rub.
The washer fluid is 180 rub.
Fulfillment (speed excess) 100 rubles.
 

A source: "Autopilot"