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By now photos of the 2012 BMW 1 series F20 have made their rounds through all the automotive websites and I have to say that this car is actually better looking than the model it replaced. Let me explain further why this new car is much better than the earlier version, the E81, in terms of styling. Firstly, is not styled by Chris Bangle. Any BMW not styled by Chris Bangle is a good BMW (with the exception of the 1st generation BMW Z4 which is messy with all the lines here and there, but still proportionate). Chris Bangle who has now quit the automotive industry (for the moment) gets his inspiration from an architectural philosophy called Deconstructivism. Now while that is all fine and dandy with buildings like the Guggenheim, in America or the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, a car with such a design tends to be too messy. Too many cris-crossing lines. Like the designer basically took an axe and started slicing the prototype clay models to get the look (example

nice interior and driving feel. priced at ~$161K nett, but only 2L NA engine putting out 156bhp, so performance not great for the price.

Saw a small advert on Classified by PI on this car - BMW 120i Convertible. Not much info given but I believe it is a 2.0L cabrio. Anyone noe more about this cabrio? Good; bad; no power; expensive???

http://www.sgcarmart.com/main/info-24YkQFZ-1000.html new car price is about 158k, this is 3 months old, using open cat coe, want to sell 150k? plus transfer fee which i dun think is cheap, at least 2k, plus 3 months old already done 6,000km meaning one year will be 24,000km, mileage not low, still claim owner's 3rd car, how to buy?

Take a look at this: http://carsguide.news.com.au/news/story_pa...5E27286,00.html