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      03-30-2012, 10:01 AM   #63
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Originally Posted by Red Bread View Post
Let me get this straight, we're supposed to believe that BMW builds their first V6 and puts a single sided exhaust on a V6 with two or three turbos on it?
Actually, if you look at kueks past posts, he is pretty adamant that the M3 will be powered by an I6. The twist though, according to him, it is an all new I6 not based on the N55. In fact, he seems to implies that it wouldn't even be based on the long standing BMW I6 architecure which uses 91mm bore centers, but instead use a larger bore center to allow for more displacement (3.3L according to him). I and others (such as Levi and Uli) have already weighed in with our opinions of this possibility so I won't rehash here. But suffice to say I am extremely skeptical and do not consider it very likely.

At any rate, yeah, that picture is quite clearly a standard F30 328i.
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