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There’s a smidgen too much padding in the driver’s seat and steering-wheel rim to make you feel instantly in touch with the road… It’s the front that will eventually let go first, and this, combined with steering that doesn’t feel quite as precise or reassuring as you’d like, can make it difficult to commit on the entry to a bend… in the dry there’s more grip than power. Not an oversteer hero then, unless it’s wet… the wheel control can get vague if you hit a bump mid-corner, unsettling the car disconcertingly. – evo

I point these out not to level criticism at the 1 series specifically but rather to highlight that each of these points to trends at BMW that I’m hoping will pass…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 2:13 pm and is filed under BMW.