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Originally Posted by ssquared
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Originally Posted by babaikram
4 cylinder engines rock. 4 cylinder haters better get used to it. This is the way forward. 0-60 mph in 4.9 seconds faster than a lot of 6 cylinder BMW engines, cleaner and better for the world
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It's not necessarily cleaner. I don't hate the 4 cylinder, I have one in my 530i and it's perfectly fine. But it's not saving the planet.
The mileage isn't all that much better compared to a 540i in real world driving because you've to put your foot into it much more than the 540i. In a lighter and smaller car like a 3 series, the 4 cylinder is the right engine. Unless the 5 gets the more powerful engine from this X2 M35, I wouldn't buy a car the size of a 5 series with a 4 cylinder engine again. |
BMW is deliberately detuning their 4 cylinder engines in G30 in order to sell 6 cylinder engines. The glove is off, other manufacturers are making powerful 4 cylinders with high HPs and low CO2 emissions and BMW is beginning to join them.
G30 is so big that current BMW 6 cylinder engines are not going to make it feel fast, but only make it nose heavy. It needs current 4 litre or V8 engines to feel fast as in M5 and m550i. However BMW can decide tomorrow to make 4 cylinder engines that would be more powerful than current 6 cylinder engines to power G30 if they so wish
Thus we now have 4 cylinder 7 series that is more expensive than 6 cylinder G30. So it is not a matter of 4 cylinder cars being cheap.
Porsche 2.5 litre engined cars have been beating M2 in both straight line and track comparisons and majority of reviewers would pick the Porsche over the M2. So the chassis plays a very significant role as well. Some macans are also 2 litres.