BMW Engines
Future city bans on gasoline or diesel-powered cars looms over car makers in worldwide markets. Germany has already imposed a ban on diesel cars in certain cities and other major cities are planning zone restrictions…
Horatiu Boeriu / November 29, 2018
3 Series
At the launch of the new 2019 BMW 3 Series in Portugal, Dr. Michael Rath, the Project Leader Drivetrain BMW 3 Series, has given the media an overview of the new engines found in the…
Horatiu Boeriu / November 25, 2018
BMW Engines
BMW is under pressure from Germany’s government to finance hardware upgrades on some diesels vehicles, joining the likes of Daimler and Volkswagen Group in agreeing to pay for the cleaner-emissions retrofits. BMW says that instead said…
Horatiu Boeriu / November 11, 2018
BMW Engines
The current BMW straight-six gasoline engine B58 receives its first technical revision. The B58 TĂś1 with 3.0 liter capacity was introduced a few days ago at the 2018 Aachen Colloquium for Engine Technology and is…
Horatiu Boeriu / October 31, 2018
BMW Engines
New 2020 F-Type: First Jaguar with a BMW V8 engine?
by Horatiu Boeriu / Date: October 9, 2018
3 Series
*Update* BMW of North America has just issued the following statement: “The all new BMW X5 will launch with 2 gasoline variants (xDrive 40i and xDrive 50i) and a PHEV variant is planned to follow…
Nico DeMattia / September 12, 2018
BMW Engines
Ferrari’s 3.9-liter twin-turbo V8 engine has won the International Engine of the Year award for the third time in succession. The engine, which powers the Ferrari 488, 488 Spider and 488 Pista, took top overall honors…
Horatiu Boeriu / June 7, 2018
BMW Engines
A series of European automakers, including BMW and the Volkswagen Group have warned that new emissions testing procedures in the European Union will impact their production and profits. Just last week BMW acknowledged that it…
Horatiu Boeriu / March 26, 2018
BMW Engines
The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig might have just put another nail in the coffin of Diesel engines. The eagerly awaited verdict of the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig states that German cities may impose…
Horatiu Boeriu / February 27, 2018
BMW Engines
BMW said on Friday it would recall 11,700 cars to fix their engine management software after it discovered that the wrong programming had been installed on the 5 Series and 7 Series models. “In the course of…
Horatiu Boeriu / February 24, 2018
BMW Engines
The news came yesterday like a thunderbolt, but with a closer look, the BMW Diesel software problem is a completely different than other manufacturers. The more details come to light, the clearer it becomes: the…
Horatiu Boeriu / February 24, 2018