With solely half dozen00 1-Series M Coupes (pictured above) creating it to the States out of a complete of 6,000 examples worldwide, the new two-door model could be a rare beast.
For those that couldn't get their hand on the foremost compact and reasonable M model, Autoweek magazine is reporting that BMW is getting ready a sort of successor within the style of an M Performance coupe based mostly on the recently launched in Europe, M135i hatchback.
M Performance is BMW's new sub-brand that sits between the regular models and therefore the thoroughbred M sports cars – one thing like Audi's S and RS vary.
Citing within sources, the publication claims that BMW can gift a coupe version of the second-generation 1-Series renamed because the 2-Series at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show with an M Performance variant to follow a couple of months later at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show.
Keep in mind, however, that BMW has not officially confirmed the amendment of names for the coupe and convertible models of the 1-Series and 3-Series lineups to 2-Series and 4-Series respectively.
Regardless of what BMW can decision the coupe model, the magazine says the M235i can use a similar N55 three.0-liter turbocharged inline-six delivering 316hp (320PS) at five,800rpm and 450Nm (332 lb-ft) from one,300 to 4,500rpm because the M135i hatchback coupled to either a 6-speed manual gearbox or an 8-speed automatic.
It is doable that just like the M135i, the M235i also will be offered with all-wheel drive as an possibility.
It is doable that just like the M135i, the M235i also will be offered with all-wheel drive as an possibility.
What Autoweek forgets to say in its article though is that an M Performance version of this 1-Series Coupe has already return to the States underneath the guise of the 135is Coupe and Convertible, each of that are powered by the M135i's N55 three.0-liter turbo engine, rated at 320hp.
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