Surprisingly, this 2JZ-GTE-swapped 2011 BMW 135i is not the first time car owner ... take to shoehorn it into his E82's engine bay. Every custom piece in the build he pretty much made with his ...

With his 2009 135i, photographer Alex Bernstein originally ... Alex added an APR rear wing and custom front splitter to the BMW, which really had a massive impact on his lap times.

BMW made quite a splash upon the debut of the 1 Series M Coupé back in 2011, as the compact proved such a resounding success ...

Dinan Engineering, in business now for 31 years, has been busy building BMW race ... And the Dinan 135i is indeed taut, with 20-percent firmer springs working with adjustable custom-valved Koni ...

There's not much to go on from this video, but it certainly shows that the 135i here has been butched way up. Assuming this S65 is the 4.0-liter variety and not the 4.4-liter, it's good for 414 ...

Of course, there's also the occasional BMW X-whatever holding up the line ... Needless to say, this is the kind of custom build that needs a full strip down. Everything from the stock engine ...

Perhaps more than any other car in its range, the 2009 BMW 135i carries the weight of customer expectation on its shoulders. Supposedly the antithesis to the soft, the bloated and overcomplicated ...

BMW 135i and 335i models can now be retrofitted with two new performance power kits for more muscle and speed. The Version 1 kit has new engine software to optimize performance, while Version 2 ...

BMW’s 135i coupe and convertible might not look much different for 2011, but with a new turbocharged inline-six engine and a newly available dual-clutch automated manual transmission ...

No doubt this is why BMW doesn’t knock much off the 3-series’ price. The price spread from a base $29,375 128i to a larger 328i is $6700, and the $35,675 turbo 135i is just a $5900 saving over ...