The front fascia now has new headlights that are drastically similar to those found on the 2 Series Coupe. Therefore, they did something about it, before saying goodbye. The BMW design team must’ve finally realized that the googly-eyed front fascia they came up with initially is nowhere close to what you’d call gracious, let alone beautiful. On the outside, the differences are a lot bigger. For example, more than one time I found myself hitting the door with my elbow while steering or getting my knee caught between the door handle and the steering wheel whenever I was relaxing on longer stretches of roads, with my foot off the pedals. Up front, the seating position is just right, not too high and not too low while the space offered isn’t all that great. The instrument cluster remained the same, no digital stuff included here, the steering wheel is the same and it’s all familiar business on the doors too. Other changes inside the cockpit for the facelift include the new iDrive controller with the touch-sensitive top surface, a new, slimmer frame for the bigger navigation screen and a revised HVAC panel. Our tester was wearing the Urban Line kit and had a special blue light inside the cabin that would create a rather interesting effect once you unlocked the car at night.
Speaking of the interior, not much has changed. Not that you can fault the smallest and cheapest car in BMW’s line-up at the moment, but it does explain why the Germans will be migrating to an FWD setup in the future. The same applied to the other side of the car, as roughly the same measurements applied so you can tell that there’s not a lot of room inside the 1 Series. As small as she is, she had to sit as upright as possible the whole road to keep her knees from banging on the back of my seat.
Do you think she had enough room in the back? Well, you’re wrong. I’m a 6-foot tall guy (184 cm) and the girl sitting behind me in the car was a measly 5-foot 4 inches (165 cm). Therefore, we left the big city and headed to the mountains, to see if everything would be OK during a longer road-trip. And by God, the 1 Series needs a bit more of it.ĭuring my time with the car, I took some of my fellow editors along, to see how this thing would handle real-life situations. Oh yes, cost cutting and the competition made this happen as BMW needs to keep up with the A-Class from Mercedes-Benz and the A3 from Audi in both pricing and interior space. To put it more bluntly, get ready for the new 1 Series that will have a sedan version and will be front-wheel drive. That’s because with the facelift version we’re entering the F20/F21 chassis’ last three years of production. Think of the 2015 BMW 1 Series as a sort of unicorn that is still around to make us smile.
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