BMW's quad-turbo diesel engine was complicated to maintain, and rising production costs led to it being phased out by around ...

BMW's B58 turbocharged inline-six engine is the result of a lot of experimentation, failure, and gained knowledge. In the mid-2000s, BMW decided to take turbocharging mainstream, initially on its ...

BMW's innovative hot vee engine design paved the way for modern turbocharging and became an industry standard. How did it do ...

Here's how the modest inline-six has grown over time and been continuously developed by BMW to become one of the most ...

German marque BMW has confirmed rumors that it will be ending production of two diesel engines. Late last year, rumors surfaced on German BMW news site, Bimmer Today, that the Bavarian motor ...

Famous BMW inline-sixes, V8s, and even V12s have seemingly donated their codenames to modern BMW models, but instead of these ...

The BMW N63 series V8 is a high-performance engine, with different versions all putting out over 400 horsepower. It's definitely an innovative engine, as it includes important firsts for BMW and the ...

After military service a career as war correspondent was on the cards. But then an exclusive bursar programme in automotive journalism came 'a-knockin' - and so a 26-year journey spanning newspapers, ...

Carmakers often give engines internal naming designations to identify them during engineering and production. Usually they're just a collection of letters and numbers, indecipherable to the average ...

On November 10, the final internal combustion engine built in Munich by BMW officially left the assembly line. Can we really call BMW “Bavarian Motor Works” anymore if none of its engines are built in ...

Ralph Hanson February 20, 2008 Comment Now! Peugeot has been using a range of BMW-sourced four-cylinder engines in its cars for years and now sister brand Citroen has confirmed its new models will ...

The cruising altitude of modern airliners ranges from 10 to 12km high. So it is hard to imagine that a pilot broached these heights a full 90 years ago. It was with a BMW engine which, on 17 June 1919 ...