Test drive BMW 1 Series M Coupe since 2010 compartment

Wolf and sheep

Red Wolf, the new BMW 1 Series M Coupe, accelerates in quiet and peaceful Scotland sheep, shepherds and local moonshine.

Ovechki, who was grazing on the meadows of Scottish highland, hearing the wrecking growling from the horizon, at first, at first they froze in bewilderment, stopped chewing tasty, environmentally friendly grass, and then even scattered where. They sensed the approach of the beast, the approach of the wolf.

The sheep's edge shuddered. Scottish valleys with bizarrely wriggling, as if adjacent to the cunning relief with asphalt roads took on a wolf attack. The British representative office of the BMW released a whole flock of bright orange wolves on these corners strung on another on another, completely unpredictable steepness. With his growl, then how to shield from roadside rocks and therefore even more creepy, they scared away several days of sheep, sheep and local Heyland moonshine. I was lucky to be driving one of these wolves.

For fans, for understanding: a new M-car from BMW is always a holiday. Moreover, when this is not an evolutionary update within the framework of an already manufactured model, but a completely new machine. BMW 1 Series M Coupe. So it is supposed to dignify the last representative of M-Clan. Long. With a placement. To have time to think. Think about whether it is worth driving on unfamiliar roads so narrow so that sometimes two cars are barely traveling, on an unfamiliar right steering wheel, and sometimes in the rain? In order not to think about it once again, and there are enough worries with the left hand and idiotic landing with my feet rolled up for switching to the gears, I preferred a shorter name: 1m. That's better. So faster. So there is no time left for thought. The first transmission of an impeccable short-handed handle, pressing the animal button m on the steering wheel, gas to the floor, and under the well-fed shooting of the configured release during switching the fire-orange wolf is carried away into the distance. Hot air at the start site still vibrates, and it is already tearing herself before the first turn. Clutching the asphalt with a dead grip, he will only drop a little speed so that at the exit, having a slightly wagging backwards, pushing his wolf throat into all his wolf, rush to the next ligament. And so again and again. On and on, Again and Again. Without tired, without whims, without delay. With animal rage and an increased heartbeat.

If you also like a short option, then just like this is 1m, and not vice versa M1, as I heard, many say now. The latter sounds more correct in relation to the names of other BMW cars. But here is the inconsistent: there was already a car with the name M1 in the history of BMW. And which! The magnificent M1 compartment produced at the turn of the 7080s! The first creation of the BMW Motorsport branch grew out of the BMW Turbo concept of the marriage field. Then he was injected with a little Italian blood, maestro Gijaro. By the way, carbon fiber bodies and the frame were done in Moden, Italdesign collected the salon, and only then the car went to Germany. With a in -line six M88 (277 pp., Multi -core inlet, with a dry crankcase), blocking the rear differential and a mass of 1300 kg, a light and low car was a real dream of any autophanate. But to buy it, only 399 lucky ones were destined for just so many civilians were produced from 1978 to 1981. That was the real leader of the pack, he stood at the origins of the stunning development of the BMW M-version. By the way, the circulation of 1 Series M Coupe is also very limited. For example, only 450 cars will be produced for the UK.

Young wolf growth of tradition honors and the covenants follows. The new 1m compartment professes the same religion as thirty years ago M1: lighter, harder, more powerful, acute, in -line six, rear self -block. Of course, all these thirty years the world did not stand still, much has changed. Something for the better, but something is not. So, for example, the leader could afford a carbon fiber body, and the new 1m is content with ordinary steel, albeit lightweight use of ultra -resistant and super -light steels. Yes, and a penny, of course, is far from beauty from that Gijaro. But in M-version, all this alloy of design, functionality and sports, flavored with cunning aerodynamic things, looks different. Powerful. Athletic. Hungo. And there is nothing superfluous. See slips on the sides of the front bumper? They are not just for beauty. Beamwashniki call them Air Curtain. They specially form an aerodynamic flow to increase the clamping force on the front axle. Worker and rear bums with intricate cracks. Everything for speed, everything for victory.

There is also a in -line six N54. Its index in the BMW *35i lineup, by the way, corresponds to the volume of the very 3.5 -fraudulent M88 engine that the first wolf M1 was at the first wolf. But now the volume is less than half a liter, and in return, the TwinPower Turbo double turbocharger, in which two small turbines are almost always blowing than and provide excellent traction in almost the entire revolution range. But in fairness, it is worth saying that this is not a unique M-engine, like M3 or as M5 and M6 was: the BMW engine is the same forces up to 340 forces on the Z4 35is class. Why, however, this power unit does not get worse. Great motor. With metal, with character, with a well -tuned voice. But I am still closer to the explosive atmospheric high -speed of M3. I re -read the previous proposal and realized: oh gods, the world has turned over! We are now talking about the shelf of the moment with turbo engine and about the riding atmospheric! Yes, indeed, turbo has become different.

There is a sports suspension, and self -block, and powerful brakes. In front, an aluminum double -knuckle with a stabilizer and an anti -tile mechanism, five levers behind. Doesn't it remind you? Structurally, this is a material suspension M3, but finalized at a smaller size of 1 Series M Coupe. Modeling so that her behavior is close to the ideal for a car made essentially from an ordinary low -budget penny. Its rigidity is pleasant and tireless, and tenacious is completely amazing. In the rain, on Scottish roads, trimmed with borders, then natural, but no less rigid obstacles, she gave me great confidence. It, of course, is Servotronic excellent hydraulic wrap, which does not give its presence in anything: the steering wheel is clean and transparent, each angle of rotation of the controlled wheels is felt amazingly. Adds pepper and the differential blocking M Differential Lock, capable of transferring to one of the rear 265 -mm tires to 100% torque and thereby delicately trust the car in the bend. With such a steering control, on such a suspension, and even with the help of a self -block, to manage 1m on the tracks in the foothills, like Julia Roberts’s hair, Highland roads are a real pleasure. Gusto. Yummy. Haute couture kitchen. For gourmets.

I want to eat and eat. Cut these Scottish serpentines with a sharp scalpel with a verified, accurate manageability. Shoot from the four -barrel exhaust on the sheep and rapidly lagging cars. Seeing the next sacrifice, add the go, fly in the back, bargain with a bit and instantly gobble up, clinging to the throat and breaking his neck. 1m is quick, but understandable, the norovist, but the flexor in skillful hands. Tool. Shell. Bullet.

The watch is a test drive, the clock of our acquaintance with this young wolf flew like one minute. They were not able to poison them sometimes from a bucket of rain, nor a piercing the island of the island, nor at first so inhospitable right -handedness of the machine, nor the narrowness of local routes. 1m understood me absolutely. I understood it almost the same. Between us there was a frank and constant connection. We were tied clearly and unconditionally. So synchronizers of the gearbox help to understand each other primary and secondary shafts. So the dawn and sunsets are tied day and night. So inevitably in winter, spring. This connection of the beast and man, the connection of the mechanism and a person is really expensive. What can we say about those 2,226,000 rubles that are asked for BMW 1 Series M Coupe in Russia.

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