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BMW M3
Want to know what the 4.0-litre V8 engine in the new BMW M3 sounds like?
Pic of M3 concept from Geneva 2007
By Mat Watson
29th March 2007
Click on the link below to find out! You’ll hear the fresh 414bhp unit
revved out to its maximum 8,300rpm. At this speed it gobbles up 400 litres of air a second! The V8 features variable valve timing to provide a very flat torque curve and has a maximum pulling power of 400Nm. The engine block is made out of aluminium in BMW’s Formula 1 lightweight alloy foundry near Munich. It weighs 202kg, which is almost 10 per cent less than the 3.2-litre six-cylinder unit in the previous M3. It all sounds great. But to be sure I guess we'll have to wait to hear the engine from the driver’s seat!
Click here to listen.
revved out to its maximum 8,300rpm. At this speed it gobbles up 400 litres of air a second! The V8 features variable valve timing to provide a very flat torque curve and has a maximum pulling power of 400Nm. The engine block is made out of aluminium in BMW’s Formula 1 lightweight alloy foundry near Munich. It weighs 202kg, which is almost 10 per cent less than the 3.2-litre six-cylinder unit in the previous M3. It all sounds great. But to be sure I guess we'll have to wait to hear the engine from the driver’s seat!
Click here to listen.
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