BMW Debuts M TwinPower Turbo 4.4-Liter V8 in Latest M5 Roll-Out
If you’re going to get a BMW, make it a sedan. That’s because you’ll be hard-pressed to find another automaker who can create as sporty of sedans as BMW, while there are scores of coupes that take to the road with a bit more ferocity than what the Munich-based company can get off the assembly line. There’s certainly no luxury sedan that currently packs as much punch as the fifth-generation M5 recently released onto German roads. If you don’t believe that, think again after reviewing the following:
-The front apron is designed to optimize the revolutionary M TwinPower Turbo package contained within the high-revving 4.4 liter V8. Not only does the widening of the grill slats increase cooling for the massive beast behind it, but air-channeling forward-mounted flaps ensure the best aerodynamics possible.
- The V8 with M TwinPower Turbo technology generates the most energy ever exercised from a BMW M model, while keeping the enormous engine well under the typical standards of fuel consumption for its class.
-Top output for the 4.4-liter engine reaches 412 kW/560 hp at 6000-7000 rpm.
-The maximum of 680 Newton meters of torque can be reached when the engine is running between 1500 and 5750 rpm, which is a worthwhile range.
-A rear-axle differential specifically designed across all M models, yet in the M5 it reaches its optimum stabilization, keeping the car balanced via an array of electronically-controlled multi-plate limited-slip systems.
It might sound like meaningless intensifiers to amp up the anticipation of a new car. That’s until you get into the thing and take it around the block. After gunning it down the street, you’ll be surprised how well it comes to a halt when that yellow goes to red a little too quickly. Your ease in avoiding the personal injury of a night jogger comes not only with those fast-acting six-piston fixed-calipers, but with BMW’s signature Night Vision pedestrian protection.
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The BMW Fifth-Generation M5 takes you from zero to 62 MPH in 4.4 seconds. It’s another testament to the German automaker’s ability to consistently improve upon itself and never fall into a designing slump nor miss the wants of the market, no matter how tough the global economy gets.
For almost a century BMW has always had a market. Will you be in it this year?