Available in Europe since the 2004 model year, BMW brought the subcompact 1 Series to the United States in 2008. Entered as a contender of a growing small premium car segment, the BMW 1 Series ...

and also amidships in the futuristic BMW i8 hybrid sports car, and in the 1-series it's good for 134bhp and 162lb ft of torque - the latter developed from only 1250rpm. Most buyers of the 1 Series ...

Since 1975, the 3-Series had been BMW's entry-level car, but when BMW subsidiary MINI made such a big seller out of the MINI Cooper, the 1-Series was introduced to North America in 2008 to slot nicely ...