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Originally Posted by Jason
[bpnews="Official: BMW F80 M3 / F82 M4 Brings Back the Inline 6 Engine"]Whether the F80 M3's inline 6 will feature two or three turbos remains to be seen. An earlier BMW filed turbo patent shows that the company has developed (or is developing) electric turbo technology; so a bi-turbo or tri-turbo inline 6 engine could possibly see the implementation of one or more electric turbos. However many turbos is ultimately decided upon by BMW, we think that its power figure may be somewhere in the ballpark of 450 HP. |
FYI, the most recent issue of the German car magazine "auto motor sport" says that it will be a twin turbo setup, similar to the N54.
My guess it will be a mix of N55 and N54, the latter for the two turbos and the cast-aluminium engine block, and the former for the twin scroll and valvetronic technology.
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