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Sideways in the new BMW 1-Series M

There’s only one way to find out if the new BMW deserves that exclusive suffix...

Posted: 06 Jul 2011

If this website could emit smell, then the acrid fug of tyre smoke would be soaking your nostrils right now. The BMW 1-Series M Coupe arrives as it means to go on: fast, noisy, and lairy. They say that the internet is rewiring our neural pathways, and that our surfing/emailing/tweeting smartphone world is killing our collective concentration. Well here’s a car to focus the mind in the old-fashioned way. Rear-wheel-drive set-up, twin-turbos, 335bhp, fat arches and a face only a mother could possibly love. Bring it on.

Words: Jason Barlow 
Photos: Paul Barshon

This feature was originally published in the June issue of Top Gear magazine

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