If the BMW M5 got a makeover, why wouldn’t one of the company’s more exciting products get a similar makeover with the equation.

Enter the Manhart MH1 S-Biturbo; a special conversion for the BMW 1 Series M Coupe. This is where things get a little more interesting.

Before we get to the new look let’s consider the amount of people who claim the original car doesn’t get enough of a power boost from BMW.

If the 1 Series would be faster than the M3, things would be seriously problematic. Manhart racing doesn’t have enough time to consider corporate dilemmas so they came up with the Stage 3 idea.

Fiddle is not the word we should use. Let’s say Manhart racing went on to monster the mods on the 3.0 liter turbocharged straight six cylinder.

That’s why the same engine now produces a total of 465 horsepower and 442 ft-lb torque. I wonder if Stage 3 is what they call the boss level.

You get a carbon fiber air box, sports exhaust system with downpipes and stainless steel mufflers. This is where they mixed in the enormous turbocharger.

Further more, the German tuner made sure to upgrade the whole of the cooling system so that all your hooning needs are met without any steam appearing in the equation.

The final bit of the equation was a carbon fiber body kit. This one is painted black and looks seriously evil even while it’s standing still.

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This particular unit is special because alongside the new design looks the 1 Series Coupe also gets some performance tweaks underneath the body.

It’s a seriously thorough job and since they started with the 135i you now we’re not going to spend too much time talking about the beauty of fuel economy.

The once fairly efficient 3.0 liter straight six with TwinPower turbocharging technology has had all the efficiency beaten out of in order to produce more power.

Add in the following: an Eisenmann Racing exhaust with Zeller Nachkats cat-back, Bavaria Performance downpipes, Wagner FMIC and a MS-Chiptuning Stage 3+ package.

Together, all of these changes bump the power up to precisely 420 horsepower. Does that figure seem familiar?

Even if it doesn’t the fitting of that kind of power in a BMW 1 Series M Coupe isn’t something to cry over. Actually, it is if you’re caught out by the surprise of that kind of grunt.

Hopefully, you won’t though, because then you’d stuff a very rare car with a beautiful Prior Design exterior body kit.

You’d also be destroying one of those garage and vision built fan cars that aim to replicate the BMW 1 Series M Coupe.

This one may come short on suspension and differential toys but it’s got quite a bit more power and what looks like a great interior.

Just about every toy has been upgraded and almost all of the fittings are now of a higher quality. For a kick off just look at the M3 instrument cluster and that pedal and seat layout.

Source: 1addicts

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