BMW 118i M Sport: Reversal of fortunes
Flipping the script on the 1 Series means BMW's entry-level model is no longer unique, but it's all the better for it
Singapore
IF ANYTHING proves that brand values and heritage matter little to consumers, the new BMW 1 Series hatchback might be it. For most of its history, BMW was a company that took pride in only building cars with the engine in front driving the rear wheels, a format to which it attributed its products' fine handling. The rest of the world calls this configuration rear-wheel drive (RWD), but so assured of its wisdom was BMW that it called it "standard drive".
Well, that particular standard must have changed, because …
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