BMW M3 shows a new technical data

A view of the emergence of a new model BMW M3 and the closer the premiere, the more rumors about the technical stuffing sports car.

According portals BMWblog and InsideLine, referring to unnamed sources within the company, the German mark could change its legendary inline Six in favor V6 engine with the configuration. It is assumed that the appeal to this unusual layout for BMW motor due to the desire to improve performance engine, marketing considerations and the desire to lure fans Audi for which these engines have long been familiar. But probably the most significant first two reasons.

Configuration V6 will make the engine more compact by reducing the intake tract size and location of turbines in the "collapse" between the cylinder banks.

Moreover, the use of advanced V6 instead of inline engines, which are installed on modern BMW 335i, will more sharply distance "regular" cars from those that are nameplates with the letter "M". The engine power is likely to be about 429 HP, and maximum torque – 548 Nm.

Insideline believes that the engine on the "trinity" is not just cutoffs version engine V8, as it was with chetyrehlitrovuyu engine on M3 engine which was made on the basis of "chopped" V10 engine from the M5 and did not have any diameter cylinder or piston swing. While the "amputation" of the two cylinders of the engine capacity of 4395 cc V8 gives 3270 cc, the source edition says that the engine will have a volume equal 3.0 liter.