Length is the distance between the front and the rear of the car. It is measured from the front bumper to the rear bumper It is no surprise that length has a huge impact on the inner spaciousness of the BMW 1er-Reihe.A hatchback can be any length depending on the make and model, but they tend to be smaller in size to other car body types.With it’s
wheelbase of 2670 mm,
the BMW 1er-Reihe has a length of 4361 mm. The longest car you can find amongst similar vehicles has GWM ORA 07 (ES11 ), which is 510 mm more than the 116 -
4871 mm.For illustration, the difference in wheelbase between the BMW and the GWM is 200 mm in favor of the GWM. On the other hand, the shortest in the " schrägheck" category is the Estrima Birò Small Maxi 45 , which is 1794 mm - that makes it 2567 mm shorter than the BMW in question.Wheelbase-wise, the BMW outperforms the rival by 2670 mm.
The difference in length between first generation (1er-Reihe E87) from 2004 and last generation (1er-Reihe F70) from 2024 is 13.4cm mm.