The diesel V8 engines, long a hallmark of BMW, will now be a thing of the past as BMW announced plans to phase them out entirely, replacing them with the more environmentally friendly forced-induction models.
Posts Tagged ‘M5’
November 28th, 2008
BMW to go Turbo, drop Diesel
November 11th, 2008
John Heinricy retires from GM after 40 years
If you’ve seen the famous CTS-V vs. M5 battle, you know who John Heinricy is. If you’ve seen the new Z06-ZR1 you must know who he is.
Having had a hand in several of the vehicles in the performance division of General Motors, Heinricy is leaving behind a legacy that will be hard to match. Not only a decorated engineer, but also a world class driver, Heinricy ends his career with GM after 40 years. Perhaps he wanted to call it quits before GM went belly up, who knows. He will be sadly missed.
Tags: Cobalt SS, CTS-V, GM, Heinricy, John Heinricy, M5, SCCA, Z06, ZR1
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October 26th, 2008
Insane Nissan 200SX with Turbocharged BMW M5 Engine
Every once in a while you see something that is mildly strange. Ok maybe very very strange. Here is a perfect example of a person with too much time, an extremely cheap source of fine german parts and little to no sense.
It is still an unfinished project, so we can’t knock it while it’s still in constructions, but daayyym it sure is different.
