Europe's first turbo production car is 50 in 2023 - and still a wild little ride
Time moves fast when it comes to technology in BMWs. Doesn’t seem along ago the F10 M5 was pilloried for its joyless, uninspiring turbo V8 - a decade later it powered the epic CS. The 1M ‘wasn’t a proper M car’ in 2011, yet by 2020 the same thinking had created the M2 CS, which was undoubtedly one of the best. The 2002 Turbo represented another huge tech leap for performance BMWs with that KKK blower; it was a significant move for the industry, in fact, as Europe’s first production turbo car.
The upside of a look so outrageous half a century ago is that this dinky little BMW still has impact today. You’ll never walk past a 2002 Turbo without stopping, such is its star quality. Because there are recognisable styling cues from later cars - early 3 Series and the like - melded with those unmistakeable details that mark it out as something special. There’s never going to be a time that a 2002 Turbo doesn’t look cool as heck.
Well, sort of. The clutch is slipping in this one - pity. Maybe just one more go, to be sure. This time the surface isn’t so smooth and the road not as straight, and it’s not clutch slip at all - it’s wheelspin. Of course it is, because it’s a madcap little car. Keep the throttle in and traction is soon regained, then it romps along even harder to something like 7,000rpm. It’s the kind of turbo rush expected from an 80s’ supercar, not a humble old BMW saloon.
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