there will be a new coupe from bmw, but that'll be Z9 - Z8 successor - which will be presented an nearest shanghai motorshow
interestingly the concept of the new 6-series also was presented as Z9 for the first time, in 1999
there will be a new coupe from bmw, but that'll be Z9 - Z8 successor - which will be presented an nearest shanghai motorshow
interestingly the concept of the new 6-series also was presented as Z9 for the first time, in 1999
12 cylinders or walk!
it should return with the M edition using the 6.1 liter in the McLaren F1.They did build it.
Ferrari will be WCC. Whoever wins the WDC will be from the Scuderia.........Yet who?
The rear looks promising but four doors is a big no no. Don't mess with it! Like others said, make it a CL class competitor. BMW needs a big coupe anyway.
No they didn't.
The V12 was the initial engine, but too heavy, so they dropped it for the V8 and the dynamics were much improved.
Several people have taken their cars and fitted the M3 heads instead of the 2 valve heads the cars came with. This takes a lot of work including creating cams for one side (or they spin the wrong way), and most also do some other internal work in.
This creates a very fast car, but doesn't correct the dynamics, though they still look great.
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Didn't the 850 CSI use a 5.6-litre V12, which was in all but the name an M car?
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They did, but didn't. BMW built 1 prototype M8 with a 6.0 liter, 550bhp engine. They scrapped the idea and eventually turned the same engine into the one used in the McLaren F1. It was a crazy engine, Mr. McLaren said he could have gotten 1000bhp out of it.
The 840 series have V8's and the 850 series have V12's. The V12 was never dropped.
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The stock engine is a S70. The engine that powered the test car was a S70/1, and the McLaren engine is the S70/2 (if I have all these numbers correct. Peleton25 made an excellent post on it here some time ago).Originally Posted by Sweeney921
Despite the naming similarity the S70/2 really has nothing to do with the others, other than it being a V12 built by BMW.
Mr McLaren was long dead by the time the car was built.Originally Posted by Sweeney921
Fair enough, it must have stayed with the world market cars, but was not imported for the last year or 2 into this part of the world.Originally Posted by Sweeney921
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Paul Rosche did all the work pretty much by himself.Originally Posted by Sweeney921
Peleton25 has to be one of the most knowledgeable when it comes to the F1, and this is the sumation that has been posted previously by him:
Originally Posted by Peleton25
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gotcha, so basically they originally tried developing the S70/1, but scrapped it for its weight, then designed an entirely different engine and coincidentally called it the S70/2?
I don't think it is "entirely" different.
As I understand it, they basically took the S70 and redesigned it to Murray's specifications, rather than starting an entirely new engine concept with a clean-sheet design.
That might be wrong, but I can't see why a company like BMW would have a nomenclature system they would "conincidentally" designate an all-new engine design as a varient of an existing product, especially as, when taken at face value, the designation implies that the F1's largely bespoke unit was merely a tweak of the engine from the comparatively hum-drum 7-series.
Ugh, a 4-door?
Sorry, but the days of the 2-seater 8 Series will always be where I find it best.
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Furthermore I question whether BMW has any reason to bring it back. The 6 series was the main replacement anyway and the original 8-series sold very poorly. Whether they bring it back in 2 or 4 door form it WILL be ugly if you dislike their current design trends.
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