Every time there's a dynamic comparison between the M135i and the S3, the Bimmer comes out on top because, on the track, it's the only one that drifts and its engine is more interesting. It's almost ...
What’s the first ever BMW M Performance automobile to feature a gasoline engine? No, you’re wrong, it’s this one, the BMW M135i, powered by a 3-liter N55 engine tuned to produce 320 horsepower and ...
That was then, and BMW hasn’t given up on trying to create a genuinely exciting hot hatch from those Mini underpinnings, launching a facelifted M135 (sans the ‘i’, with a new F70 model designation) ...
What happens when you put an M3 engine into a humble M135i? You get one of the craziest sleeper builds ever made. In this video, AutoTopNL tests a BMW M135i F21 that’s been engine-swapped with a 3.0L ...
It was a thrilling revelation. At the launch of the recent BMW 1 Series facelift – so hefty they gave it a new internal model code (F70 rather than F40) – the updated M135 lost its ‘i’ suffix but ...