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      01-06-2014, 09:37 PM   #132
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Originally Posted by solstice View Post
The M boss has said earlier that he does not regard the NA engine to be dead for them but right now FI is the best technology for what they need to achieve. To me that sounds like there is hope.
Can anyone predict what'll happen in 10, 20, 30 years? No. But I am absolutely confident that BMW will not make a naturally aspirated ///M engine for the rest of this decade and likely well into the next one. The last one we'll see for a while was the glorious S65B44 in the M3 GTS and CRT. To me, it's a crying shame that BMW didn't iterate on that engine for the F80 and F82. Could have been approaching Ferrari levels of ungodliness from ~7 years ago.
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