BMW N20 Engine: Pros, Cons, Reliability, Tuning, and Maintenance Guide
Explore the pros, cons, reliability, and tuning potential of BMW’s N20 engine in this essential maintenance and buyer’s guide.
Explore the pros, cons, reliability, and tuning potential of BMW’s N20 engine in this essential maintenance and buyer’s guide.
Discover the BMW N26 engine's reliability, differences from the N20, and essential maintenance tips. Learn about common issues like timing chain problems, coolant leaks, and emissions complexities.
The N20 unit gets the BMW Performance Power Kit treatment. 238 hp and 350Nm torque.
BMW N13 and N20 Engines Win 2013 International Engine of the Year Awards. The BMW Group has extended its run of success in the International Engine of the Year Awards
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BMW TwinPower Turbo technology again takes two of Ward’s 2013 10 Best Engines Awards.
Four award-winners spanning a displacement range of 1.6 to 4.0 liters. BMW wins with four, six and eight cylinders - N18, N20, N54, S65
A new dyno test shows the the tuning potential of the new N20 engine found in the also new 2012 BMW 328i. The folks at Automobile Magazine took the 328i onto a DynoJet dynamometer and showed that the N20 engine comes underrated from the factory.
Starting in the spring of 2012, all BMW X3 model variants will be powered by engines equipped with BMW TwinPower Turbo Technology.
I'm on the way back from Monterey, California, fresh off testing the all new F30 3 Series in both N20-powered 328i and N55-powered 335i guise. Only I don't want to leave.
Ward's publishes their 2011 10 Best Engines list and BMW is well represented once again. The new four-cylinder 2.0 liter turbocharged N20 engine made the list, along with the 3.0 liter twin-scroll N55 powerplant.
At the BMW 3 Series launch in Barcelona, our road test editor Shawn Molnar sat down with Dr. Christophe Lutterman to chat on the new BMW 328i and the N20 powerplant found under its hood.