The future of BMW ///M: vermogenscap and bye manual gearbox

Posted on 06-07-2015 at 10:06 am by sir_smokalot – 70 Responses”

So you hoped for a BMW M and a capacity of far over the 600 hp that also has 3 pedals and a central knights? Write that on the short term, but on your belly.

In a short tete-a-tete with a British journo has our countryman, and the new head of M GmbH, Franciscus van Meel, to know that the future of the manual gearbox in that products are not flourishing, and that we, in the meantime, the limit is reached of the power that cars can be stopped. The strongest ///M is currently the M5 30 Jahre, which is 600 hp and 700 Nm on the rear wheels uitpoept.

That sounds like two noemenswardige affairs. But let the judgments take a closer look at what say of Flour exactly?

From a technical standpoint, the future doesn’t look bright for manual gearboxes. The DCT and auto ’boxes are faster and they have better fuel consumption. It’s difficult to say we’ll stick to the manual, but we still have a big fan community for manuals and we are not going to take away something the customer wants to have.

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We’re at the limit. If you go on adding more horsepower and torque, it’d probably be about the limits. “For now, 600bhp is the most you can get in an M car.

Understand… of Flour has excellent by his mediatrainer make deliberate, because with the above info you can really go in any direction. It is, however, obvious that in the future there will be more focus on the honing of the top models, with even faster switching times, a wider power output of the engine and tweaks the traction control to make this power with less loss on the road. And, of course, is the introduction of AWD in the M-division is just a matter of time, that we go to the new M5 back.

The future: a downsizing 4.0 V8

We know how enthusiastic BMW is downsizing, and in addition, the 4,4-litre V8 in the big M’s currently the only block that does not fit within the modular strategy of the brand.

It is therefore obvious that a new generation of V8 with a volume of 4 liters, a block that according to our sources deep in Munich already in a profound state of development is. A pleasant side-effect of this is that the sales in China, BMW’s second largest market) will win. In the country you pay for on a car with an engine that is larger than 4,000 cc, a strong crack extra load.

And for what concerns manual gearbox… Perhaps we go to him in the “lower” M-models, but in the upper segment seems to be the role of the manual transmission is really played out. Who necessarily wants to stir do well to take to the American wrecking balls of Cadillac or Ford to turn to.