Click on the images for larger shots.
Use your browser's BACK button to return.
Many people still think that high top speeds always go together with good acceleration and powerful torque. But many a driver has been misled by the speedometer in his car.
Motorway driving shows what this can lead to: An endless column of cars driving along the overtaking lane. Each one endangering the other. A road built for fast motoring thus becomes a road preventing fast motoring.
In a BMW the top speed is just a by-product. Engine power and supreme performance at any engine speed are the important things. So that BMW drivers can go the way they choose. Like overtaking other cars within a matter of seconds. Or letting other go first. After all, it's easy to give in if you have the better car.
In the BMW engine the very accurate balancing of the crankshaft is one of the outstanding design features. The makes the engine run with the extreme smoothness of a turbine. The kinetic energy is passed straight on to the chassis. Not to the car's body. Naturally, these qualities do not only avoid fatigue on the part of the material and the car.
They also avoid fatigue on the part of the driver.
The combustion chambers are designed in accordance with the triple-hemisphere swirl-action principle and guarantee even and 'pure' combustion. The BMW engines of today already fulfil the exhaust emission control laws of tomorrow.
This all goes to show why BMW cannot deny that the middle letter in its name stands for 'motor'.
In a report on the German car market the motoring journal Auto, Motor und Sport made the following comments on BMW: "The BMW six-cylinder models prove that the reciprocating piston engine certainly has a promising future still to come. The new BMW six-cylinder engines run with perfect smoothness and softness at any engine speed."