BMW 128ti
Hot hatch has been borrowed for two important competitions
MILEAGE 11,402
WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT
To see if this car, the first of its kind for BMW, can tackle its established rivals
T his is going to be a tricky one for me to write, because the brief with such pieces is to describe your recent experiences in the subject car. Of which there have been few indeed.
Partly that’s because I did that rarest of rare things in the freelance writer’s world and actually took a holiday; and, as previously discussed, me, my missus, offspring and our accumulated luggage simply won’t fit in the BMW 128ti all at the same time, so we took something rather larger and more, er, Range Rovery. The second reason is that the staff of this august publication keep nicking it.