{"id":119289,"date":"2015-03-13T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=119289"},"modified":"2015-03-13T07:24:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T06:24:33","slug":"2-millionth-bmw-1-series-produced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2015\/03\/13\/2-millionth-bmw-1-series-produced\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Millionth BMW 1-Series Produced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2-millionth-BMW-1-Series.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2-millionth-BMW-1-Series-696x385.jpg\" alt=\"2-millionth-BMW-1-Series\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-119302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2-millionth-BMW-1-Series-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2-millionth-BMW-1-Series-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2-millionth-BMW-1-Series-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2-millionth-BMW-1-Series-1068x711.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2-millionth-BMW-1-Series.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/supercars\/bmw\/\" title=\"BMW\">BMW<\/a> has just celebrated building the 2 millionth example of the BMW 1-Series hatch prior to customer deliveries of the recently facelifted 1-Series kicking off.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the 2 millionth BMW 1-Series was produced just a few short days after production of the facelifted 1-Series commenced. 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features a freshened up look over the previous car. The looks of the 2015 car certainly split opinion with the car\u2019s unusually large headlamps and rounded lines. The 2016MY car does not differ hugely, but the implemented changes certainly make a difference. There are more slender and cleaner headlamps, now featuring LED lights. The lights at the rear of the car are also heavily reworked and they are now a better fit with the rest of the BMW family. <\/p>\n<p>There is one engine that stands out to us, the 326 horsepower M135i that will sprint to 100 km\/h in just 4.9 seconds when paired with the revised 8-speed automatic transmission. The car has gained a few more horsepower and promises to be even better than the current car. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW has just celebrated building the 2 millionth example of the BMW 1-Series hatch prior to customer deliveries of the recently facelifted 1-Series kicking off. Interestingly, the 2 millionth BMW 1-Series was produced just a few short days after production of the facelifted 1-Series commenced. With that in mind, the hallmark 1-Series in question is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":119302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15868,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}