We've seen it in the news, we've seen it in the streets, we've even seen it in the dealerships: the F20 1 Series is nowhere to be found on American soil. The newest 1 Series model, codename F20, was ...

BMW decided that India shouldn't be the only Asian country where the 1 Series was released this month. That's why Malaysia joined the game and just received the new 1er, in 3 model variations.

The initiator of what BMW today calls its Compact Class of models, the 1 Series, famously got off to a less-than-stellar, never mind reception, at its world debut in Paris almost 21 years ago.

Just as folk in the Old World were ahead of the curve with the first-generation BMW 1 Series, so it is with the second (factory code F20). This version is bigger and more spacious than the car it ...