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BMW 1 Series 130i (A)
May 9, 2008

The 1 you want


The big question here is: how big are the back seats and luggage space?

The answer: bigger that you’d expect.

Two can be seated comfortably in the back, though like most small to medium hatchbacks three is a bit of a squeeze. The luggage compartment boasts an impressively flat and low floor, and folding the back seats down liberates even more space.

Front seats have no electric reclining adjusters though, and the air-conditioner is a manual, non-digital unit.

The long doors necessary to facilitate entry into the back seats means that this isn’t a car that you’d want to squeeze into a tight parking spot because there might just be not enough room to open the doors wide enough to get out. But inside the car itself, everything is rock-solid, and even the sound insulation appears designed to let you hear the engine’s best notes while still successfully keeping road and extraneous traffic noise at bay.

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