New Bmw M1, You Have Got To See This

[Young_Warrior]

Doesn't the Vette have leaf sprung suspension?

Ye like a horse drawn carriage has.

Under the bonnet of the elise you find a toyota 1,8 vvti engine. That is an advanced engine. Japanese produce the most advances engines in the world along with the M5 engine and the audi RS4 engine and the porsche carrera gt engine.

 

[///M-Spec]

The next M3 (E90/E92) will NOT have the outgoing M5's V8 engine. It will be based on the new M5's V10, with 2 cylinders chopped off. The old M5 engine was not built to withstand the 8000+ rev limit the M engineers wanted for the new car.

Fans of the original M3 will remember that car's 4 cylinder engine was essentially an M1/M535i/M635i engine with two cylinders chopped off and the cooling passages blocked off.

As for the Corvette's suspension, they are composite leafs, and they are transverse mounted. They are lighter and more durable than equivalant steel coils, reducing unsprung weight. They are more compact than steel coils, allowing for less intrusion into the chassis, which improves packaging AND lowers the center of gravity. And they have about as much in common with horse drawn carriages as an F/A-22 has with the Wright Flyer. Please don't knock something unless you know a little bit about it.


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[TheCracker]

Under the bonnet of the elise you find a toyota 1,8 vvti engine. That is an advanced engine. Japanese produce the most advances engines in the world along with the M5 engine and the audi RS4 engine and the porsche carrera gt engine.

Under the bonnet of 90% Elises you'll find the Rover K-series engine. It was a technically advanced engine back in 89' but sixteen years latter you could hardly call it cutting edge technology.

2 of the 3 Elise models sold (excluding the US) still use the K-series.

 

[Young_Warrior]

M-spec lol I just repeated what jeremy clarkson told me.

 

[///M-Spec]

M-spec lol I just repeated what jeremy clarkson told me.

Clarkson is pretty clueless, then. But that doesn't surprise me a bit.


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[Duke]

M-spec lol I just repeated what jeremy clarkson told me.

You're making it pretty much standard practice to repeat things other people have said without really understanding them.

 

[Young_Warrior]

You're making it pretty much standard practice to repeat things other people have said without really understanding them.

if you say so hunny.

 

[led1013]

I think it looks good, i love the front and the awseome side vents, but i still think the 6 series looks better the 6 is one of the sexiest cars on the road

 

[Onikaze]

Well damn, someone beat me too it.

The M3 will have An M5 V-10 minus two Cylinders.

400 or so Hp, 4.0 Liters, 8200 Rpm Redline, 300 Something Lb Ft...and a GLORIOUS Sound.

For anyone who says German Straight 6's don't have good sounds, you should go get someone to punch it in an M3 while you stand next to it and listen to that thing sing.

The M5's V-10 is a glorious sounding lump.

The C6 Z06 will still give them all quite the black eye for it's price.

 

[M5 Turbo]

If its coming in production i think Bmw will change a little from the pictures you originally post.

Other frontend and a little smoothend edges. Looks nicer!

The engine in this car should also be a one of a kind, someone talked about the e90 335 twinturbo engine but, the engine looks so far to be a inline 6 in magnesium, 3,6 liters and 24valves. 280kW without compressor, 340kW with, but i heard about 550hp. Should outrun the most supercars, the new M5 E60 and Gallardo is equaly in acceleration so i think this one will be pretty damn fast.

Otherwise Bmw planing the M10 that will be coming in 2009, Racing Dynamics is alredy planing theirs RS55 Coupe with 650hp.

 

[Robin]

On the first page pictures the rear reminds me of the Lexus L-FA concept car with those open vents right below the lights.... But thats just an autocar impression and not the final thing...

 

[Philly]

That first car, while mid engined, does not look like an exotic type thing that I would expect of an M1. It looks like something that would be maybe around the $50,000 mark.

As for the red car? Front engined. I would say sowmething like a Z coupe. Not an M1.

 

[Wolfe]

BMW is much more likely to build a V10-powered-successor to the Z8 than they are to build a new mid-engined M1.

 

[Philly]

Yeah. I don't think we'll see any mid-engined BMWs any time soon. The best chance is if the R8 takes off and the SLC does pretty well. It would be totally sweet though.

 

[Eric.]

Grave digging time?

This was two years old...

 

[ND4SPD]

Concur, holy necropost.

 

[McLaren]

BMW is much more likely to build a V10-powered-successor to the Z8 than they are to build a new mid-engined M1.

Agreed, and this will be me, but I'd prefer Lamborghini's involvement again with a new M1 (as long a that involvement doesn't include Audi). But that's me.

 

[Robin]

Grave digging time?

This was two years old...

Jesus, did notice till now!....arg!

 

[Philly]

Agreed, and this will be me, but I'd prefer Lamborghini's involvement again with a new M1 (as long a that involvement doesn't include Audi). But that's me.

My guess is that if they were going to involve anybody, it wouldn't be anything involved with one of their rivals. Which leaves....

Ferrari?
Koenigsegg?

 

[Wolfe]

My guess is that if they were going to involve anybody, it wouldn't be anything involved with one of their rivals.

The significance of McLaren's idea was that BMW originally went to Lamborghini when they were planning the first M1 (if you didn't know).

 

[Philly]

The significance of McLaren's idea was that BMW originally went to Lamborghini when they were planning the first M1 (if you didn't know).

Ah. Okay. Back before they were teamed up with Audi's owner.

I was wondering why he considered that, but now it makes sense. Thanks.

 

[GTkid2510]

Has anyone realised that this is a photoshop, the guys at Auto Express(looks like it) took a BMW 3-Series and a Lamborghini Gallardo and stuck it together.

 

[Philly]

I don't know if it is a photoshop; I'm not too sure how they make the cars that will probably not be made in any way. Whatever it is, they must have used the same method as they usually use to show cars like this.