Saturday, September 18, 2010

BMW finally did it, after 20 years.

You probably think that this car is for girls, but don't mess this one with 128i. This car is capable of things that some legendary cars are not This car has the same 3.0 inline 6 engine from 3 series capable of 200lbs of torque. This one is the twin-turbocharged model that does 0-60 in 4.9 seconds. It has a top speed of 155mph (electronically limited). It has M-Sports body kit, M-Sports looks, and it even has some of the M-Sports spirit. This car destroys M3. It's lighter, quicker, and handles better, even after the fact that M3 has "better equipped suspension". This deserves to be called the Rival of Nissan Z, and maybe, just maybe, rival of Subaru STi. It doesn't have a more powerful engine, it's not AWD, and it doesn't look as good either, but when it comes to performance, this car does it's best to make BMW proud. But there's also couple negatives. It looks as though someone took its candy, or dropped its ice cream. It simply looks mad, like it's about to cry and start beating the living crap out of you, and that's exactly what it does to M3. It looks as if BMW tried to mix previous M3 with the new one. They did make it look mad, and it's good. It might be handling better than M3 or 335i, but it doesn't mean that its faster than the RX-8 or 370Z. It costs $36,000, and the convertible version cost well over $40,000. You get sat-nav and all the "comforts" that BMW offers, and you also get speed... do you really get all of that? Talking about comfort, you get that fake leather inside and that cheap dashboard. If you think Honda is made cheaply, then you can't even imagine how bad this is. This is worse than Lancer Evolution 8 or 9. It's either boring black interior, or black/beige/white that looks like poop. They tried to do something that is impossible to do-combine luxury and speed-which many other companies failed to do and dropped their names. If you want to make it fast, and that's what 135i should be in theory, then you should get rid of some weight and give it better handling. If you want to make the interior look nice, beige is not the color. It's like coloring F1 car into pink and drawing kitty on it. It's like BMW lost sense of taste when they were designing this car. Overall, it handles, it goes, and it has the looks, something that BMW hasn't done in a while. The only problem with it is the interior and price. But overall, I admit, BMW did a pretty good job.





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