2008-08-19

On Sale NOW! - August 08


	£4.25 per Issue or Subscribe & receive 12 issues for the price of 11 £46.80

Its a gas

Twin Turbo One Back in September we were chatting to the guys on the Hartge stand at the Frankfurt show and discovered that they were about to tackle a world land speed record in a modified 1-Series.

Richard Noble doesn’t need to be too concerned just yet though: the Projekt- V300plus programme was aimed at taking a world record for LPGfuelled cars and was
a collaboration between universities in Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern, plus BMW tuners Hartge. The idea is to prove the environmental credentials of LPG fuel.

Getting Hartge on board was a smart move by the boffins: the firm supplied a 450 bhp V8-powered 1-Series for the project, using the LPG injected in liquid rather than gas form. At the Papenburg highspeed oval in Northern Germany, the Hartgemodified 130i stormed to 303.6 km/h (that’s a heady 189 mph) but torrential rain prevented the required run in an opposite direction for an official record.

Watch this space and meanwhile, check the team’s progress at www. projekt-v300plus.de.

2007 -December

Tii Reborn
It’s ironic that just as we were compiling a buying guide to the classic 2002 up popped a piece of retro marketing in the shape of the Concept 1 Series tii show car. When BMW previewed the concep. Read more>
Twin Turbo One
This month sees the UK launch of the 1-Series coupe and top of the tree is the twin-turbo 135i. Stepping straight from a Z4M into the 135i, we were expecting it to feel like an anti-climax but we were surprised at just how deceptively rapid the blown six feels in the small coupe. Read more>
123 Is Go
The twin-turbo petrol is the 1-Series Coupe everyone’s excited about but in the real world, there’s a cracking drive to be had behind the new fourcylinder diesel. Bearing the slightly awkward name of 123d, the new fourcylinder oil burner cranks out 204 bhp and a staggering 295 lbf.ft which is enough to shunt it to 60 mph in 7 seconds dead and on to a top end of 148 mph. Read more >

Kelsey Publishing Ltd Cudham Tithe Barn, Berry´s Hill, Cudham, Kent, TN16 3AG.
Tel:+44 (0)1959 541444 Fax: +44 (0)1959 541400