This seems like a ton of nonsense. This will never make it into a production car. If there was any fact behind it, you would list your sources. The shear RPMs will never be a product for the street in a BMW let alone a 1 series. For the track and BMW race cars it is a different story as those engines are torn down and rebuilt. The HP ratings are easy to achieve but the revs are not. I think you better check your sources and see if they are really sources it makes your rumor title a joke, The 8400 RPM is tough enough to achieve and you are saying 11k. Get real

@Mike: 8400 isnt hard

My 1968 998cc Hillman Imp will rev to 9k no problems……

Yes the engine is heavily modified, but its also 40+ years old, so how can you possibly say 11k is unrealistic giving todays technology

Ok I know that you can build a motor to rev to 19,000rpms because that is what a formula car does. But let’s get real here. BMW, although having the R&D to do so, would not put a car like this into production. and especially not in an american car. the problem with doing something like this doesn’t have to do with technology or anything of that nature. It has to do with competing against itself. you already have the N54 motor that has 300 HP why would they build a 4cyl TT motor that only did 230 hp just because it had an 11,000 rpm redline? If you think about it logically for a second it would be plain idiotic to do something like that.