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Chủ Nhật, 5 tháng 6, 2011

2012 BMW 1-Series pictures leaked on the internet

The first official product photos of the new generation 2012 BMW 1-Series have found their way onto the internet.

It actually reminds me of a modernized E46 ti compact, with a peculiar choice of styling at the front end, mostly because of the decision to make the lower edge of the headlamps slope sharply upwards towards the kidney grilles.

As a result, there seems to be lots of body surface in between the headlamps and the kidney grille – a trait not usually found on any other modern BMW other than the BMW 5-Series GT. If you recall, the E46 ti also had weird headlamps.

At the rear, the design is an evolution of the current 1-Series hatchback. The car pictured here is the 120d, which has a single round chrome tipped exhaust pipe.

The side character lines of the body no longer features that droopy slope found on the current 1-er, which in my opinion looks much better.

Now, the lower character line only slopes up towards the rear wheel arch – before this the line sloped up towards both front and rear wheel arches giving the impression that the car was sagging under its weight.

The interior features a similar iDrive display panel design as first seen on the new 6-series. The instrumentation cluster is of a dual meter design, with the fuel gauge integrated into the lower half of the speedometer.

There seems to be a black panel style multi-info display at the bottom of the RPM meter.

Look after the jump for the rest of the leaked pix.