Most people who own entry-level
petrol powered hatchbacks don't usually expect excellent straight line
performance when they leave their driveway, but tuners such as B&B
Automobiltechnik offer solutions of the non-settling kind.
This car here is a BMW 116i F20, wearing B&B's
Stage 2 kit. It produces no fewer than 203 PS and 306 Nm of torque, which is instrumentally better than what it can put down on its own,
specifically 109 horses and 180 Nm.
When stock, the 116i can sprint to 100 km/h in 10.9 seconds, which isn't something to write home about.
While B&B aren't sharing any straight line
figures, it's safe to say that nearly 100 extra HP should help it hit that same
mark in well under 10 seconds. In order to achieve these figures, B&B went
with both software (ECU) as well as hardware optimizations, as the whole
intervention took approximately 6 hours to complete - turning an otherwise
regular 116i into something that could potentially keep up with a
run-of-the-mill hot hatch.
