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      09-15-2012, 01:36 PM   #207
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Originally Posted by Alumac View Post
Sorry, but I'm just not as impressed by what amounts to a tune of a turbo engine as I am a NA engine from M's past, and the purpose built engine of the e9x series. I am sure the F series engine will be great, but I feel like I've essentially already seen it in the form of N54/55. Great, just not that special for an M car.

As for the F1 engine, yes it's impressive, but that's not the kind of engineering going into the F series engines thus far.
Even though a purpose built M engine is more romantic than a tuned standard engine, M history shows that more often than not the M engine is based on a production engine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M62#S62

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_S14

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M50#S50

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_S54B32#S54
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