Allright,
With the new In-line 6 motor coming out soon, Ive heard it will be and amped up 3.0L or an 3.5L, my bet is 3.5L, and 265-275 hp, what does this mean for the model line ups?
Will the 5 series drop the 525 and make the 530 the smallest stateside motor in the 5er's, makes sense doesnt it?
Will the 3 series just keep the 325s as the smallest BMW and have a 330 and 335 or does the 325 just go away?
This was done before with the 523, 528, and in the 3's the 318 was dropped and and the 323, and 328 were dropped.
Does all this make sense or am I off balance. BMW is losing the horse power wars and it makes sense to keep the big 5's with at least 225 hp and the 330 is losing its benchmark status as most of its peers have 260hp. They need this new motor but how does it affect the model line ups.
Waiting for the new motor!
Thorack
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Where did you see this info? There have been some speculation that the L6s will grow when the Valvetronics come out (probably not till E90 rollout, from what I understand), but wasn't there also some talk that the N62 will get a shrunken 3.5l brother? V8s are more 'marketable' (though I personally would like to see the return of the BigSix) and would trample all over a 3.5l valvetronic L6.
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Quote: | BMW is losing the horse power wars | Sheesh.  I'll take a light moderate-hp well-engineered car with great handling over a hp monster.
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Quote: | Sheesh. I'll take a light moderate-hp well-engineered car with great handling over a hp monster. | I'd take both
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Last months issue of Automobile magazine had an artical about the new 5 series and the the head of BMW drive train department said a new in-line 6 motor with vavle-tronic would be here in less than 2 years. The artical author guessed a 3.0L with 275 hp but the dealer that lives by me here in Germany said it would be a 3.5L and wouldnt guess hp.
There was also an interview with Helmut Panke the new BMW CEO he said alot about the asian markets and expanding market share and that Bangle was still his fair haired boy ie.. not going anywhere.
Thorack
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BMW already has a 275HP 3.5 liter engine in the up-coming 5 series and the current 7 series. 
And 275HP out of the 3.0L with Valvetronic? Wishful thinking. The most we're going to see is probably about 250 out of the 3.0L inline 6.
Despite "losing" the HP war, I seem to recall the 330 beating a lot of cars with 260HP or more on 0-60 times. I'd rather have a car with moderate HP that can go like sh*t, than a 250+ hp PIG that takes more than 6 seconds to get to 60.
That, and the up-coming 500+ V-10 that goes into the M5 and M6 will shut everyone up in terms of HP talk. Try that in a 3,400lbs chasis. 
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