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      06-15-2011, 10:27 AM   #239
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Originally Posted by adc View Post
Not sure what truncated S63 engine would get them. Displacement would be around 3.3L so a reliable HP number would be around 10-15% more than the current 1M. Hardly headline grabbing numbers at all.
The N54 is not a good measuring stick. It is not an M-developed engine. An "S54" based on the N54 could easily make over 400hp reliably.

Still, yes, the V6 does not make sense, but for different reasons (discussed in many other threads already).
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