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The New BMW Engines Family

The New BMW Engines Family

Sustainability by commonality: the new BMW Group Efficient Dynamics family of engines. With the development and production of future drive units with six, four and three cylinders, the BMW Group continues to bank on its…

BMW working on TwinPower 3-cylinder engines

With the launch of the first four-cylinder TwinPower turbocharged engine, BMW made a statement that in the future it will move away from naturally aspirated engines. Several four-cylinder turbocharged powerplants are in works, but today…

Video: BMW N20 Engine Animation

Video: BMW N20 Engine Animation

BMW releases a new video of the highly praised N20 engine. The four-cylinder TwinPower engine is replacing the six-cylinder naturally aspirated engines found in several BMW models. First vehicle to receive the new four banger…

BMW confirms the new N20 four-cylinder engine will be used in 1 and 3 Series models

Four-cylinder engines power 65.4% of cars built in 2010

Four-cylinder engines power 65.4% of cars built in 2010

Wards Auto, quoted by Autoblog, states that in 2010, approximately 65 percent of vehicles built for the U.S. market were powered by four-cylinder engines. As a direct consequence to the soaring gas prices in 2008,…