The new BMW 1 Series.

Significantly, the new BMW 1 Series is now available for the first time as a three-door model, featuring a sporting and elegant side-line and particularly agile driving characteristics.

Accounting for sales of more than 200,000 units worldwide, the BMW 1 Series has already set the benchmark in the compact segment. With its engine at the front and power going – in typical BMW fashion - to the rear wheels, the BMW 1 Series offers maximum driving pleasure in this class.

Still the first – and only – compact car with rear-wheel drive, the new three-door variant highlights the dynamic performance of this drive concept even more clearly and convincingly.

The body design of the new three-door model accentuates the long front end and clearly moves the car’s centre of gravity to the rear. The side view, in turn, is characterised by the long door with its frameless window and the single-unit side window at the rear. This dynamic design alone clearly underlines the sporting character of BMW’s new three-door model.

A clear expression of power: new highlights both front and rear.

Appropriate modifications both front and rear give the new BMW 1 Series
an even more powerful and characteristic look. As a result, both the three- and five-door versions share the same impressive face with a re-designed and enlarged BMW kidney grille right in the middle. This distinctive look is accentuated by the newly contoured headlight surrounds in the bumper unit, darker surrounds on the lights, a wider air intake in the lower section of the front air dam, a more pronounced spoiler lip and a new trim bar. Finally, the foglamps, standard across the range, are in an even more striking design than before, with rectangular items replacing the round driving lights found on the previous model.