In recent years, many automakers have continued to increase engine displacement, despite rising fuel prices and environmental concerns. For the most part, engines haven’t returned to their peak sizes of the muscle car era, but for many companies they are considerably larger than their offerings of ten years ago. A large portion of the big engine push has come from outside the U.S., with automakers like Mercedes pushing beyond five or six liters for performance models. Mercedes recently began implementing a new 6.3 liter AMG engine to replace its 5.4 liter V8. Meanwhile, BMW put a 5.0 liter V10 in the M5, and a 4.8 liter V8 in the 5-, 6-, and 7-series. But don’t expect BMW to follow Mercedes’ lead with even larger engines. Rather, the German automaker will focus on increased efficiency, according to Automotive News. BMW will use turbochargers, more efficient valvetrains and advanced electronics to boost performance while increasing fuel economy, the report said. The use of turbochargers is not entirely new to BMW, but the automaker has largely avoided them in favor of naturally-aspirated engines. That is slowly changing, however, with the introduction of a new bi-turbo for the 3-Series. Is this the beginning of a new trend for BMW? It looks that way…
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04/10, 10:51 AM
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Andre Neves
Porsche has been doing it for decades and look at them
04/10, 10:55 AM
posted by:
Andre Neves
I have a feeling the next M3 will be a twin turbo V6 or V8 like Lotus’ Esprit.
04/10, 11:00 AM
posted by:
Yuri
Sucks to Porsche. Nothing against their engines but overall you can get much better wheels for that money.
04/10, 11:07 AM
posted by:
Andre Neves
Sucks to Porsche. Nothing against their engines but overall you can get much better wheels for that money
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04/10, 11:16 AM
posted by:
Kendall Richardson
yepp, like?
04/10, 11:30 AM
posted by:
Angelo
What car is better than a 911, for the money? Hell, even a Boxster (until, MAYBE, the M Z4)!
04/10, 12:13 PM
posted by:
Anonymous
AMG’s “63″ is a 6.2 Liter Engine.
04/10, 12:19 PM
posted by:
BMan1113VR
“A large portion of the big engine push has come from outside the U.S., with automakers like Mercedes pushing beyond five or six liters for performance models. ”
My ass. 7.0L z06. 6L regular vette. 8.3L viper. 6.1L and 5.7L hemi’s. 5.4L s/c svt cobra comming out. 4.6L, 4.4L, and 4.7L caddies. 5.3L chevy ss cars.
04/10, 12:22 PM
posted by:
Al
BMW like any company that truly believes it has to compete will use all available resources to do so. I do not see this as any deviation from their business philiosophy. It is so easy to put a high horsepower engine in a vehicle- the challenge is improving the dynamics of the vehicle. They are taking the F-1 strategy to get performance from the car and machine without increasing the size.
04/10, 12:26 PM
posted by:
Stu Arthur
More automakers should follow BMW’s lead. Thats a very wise approach. Next step is to make the cars lighter.
04/10, 1:04 PM
posted by:
Northeasterner
“My ass. 7.0L z06. 6L regular vette. 8.3L viper. 6.1L and 5.7L hemi’s. 5.4L s/c svt cobra comming out. 4.6L, 4.4L, and 4.7L caddies. 5.3L chevy ss cars. ”
Those are not a part of BMW competition. MB is.
04/10, 8:06 PM
posted by:
Chris G
A Cayman S poster #6! As for #2’s post, BMW will never EVER build a V6 over an I-6.
04/10, 11:30 PM
posted by:
Dallas
I want BMW to start increasing performance by DECREASING weight. Thats the key. Forget about larger engines. Increase efficiency and decrease weight. I want all BMW engines to be over 100 hp per liter in 10 years. Then again, I want Jessica Alba as my wife…
04/12, 10:09 PM
posted by:
james
thats pretty funny #13!!! but seriously, BMW is trying everything to get the best performance out of there cars without just doin the obviuos changes like displacement. more power to ‘em! BMW’s seems to be ahead in all segments of technology at this point and all the other manufactorers are trying to keep up.
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