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BMW of North America announced today a continuing evolution of efficiency, power and technology with the introduction of the new TwinPower Turbo 4-cylinder engine (N20) to the X3 xDrive28i. The new engine replaces the outgoing nominally aspirated inline 6-cylinder engine (N52) as the next step in BMW’s EfficientDynamics strategy. It is

While Heffner Performance and its world wide network of installing dealers deliver multiple twin turbo builds to its customers every week, this particular project was unique enough to share more in detail. This highly modified Gallardo came back to us recently for a complete engine refreshing and our latest twin turbo system. The

Their Stage 1 F10 M5 and F12/F13 M6 kit is good for pushing the V8 bi-turbo S63Tu engine to 640 hp / 575 lb-ft torque (780Nm) . This is a +80hp / 74lb-ft gain over the new M5 and M6’s factory 560hp / 501lb-ft torque. The G-Power F10 M5 tuning program offers: G-Power Stage

Matt Farah (of Tuned) drives and reviews VF Engineering’s 700hp Supercharged BMW M3 (VF620). This M3 features a VF Engineering VF620 supercharger with KW 2 way Adjustable Club Sport Coilover kit w/ Front Camber Plates. Brakes are AP Racing – AP7100 368mm 6-piston Front Big Brake Kit and AP Racing –

An alpine white F10 M5 has now been delivered to a site member – Singularity. Although the owner and car are now experiencing some wintry weather, we nonetheless get some nice insight and review of another new M5. There’s now been several deliveries in  M5 forums and more to come as we

Insideline puts the 2012 328i (F30) through a battery of performance tests on their own track to get some real life test results. Here are the results: 0-60mph: 5.9 sec 0-60mph (with 1 ft rollout): 5.5 sec 1/4 mile: 14.1 sec @ 98.9mph 60-0mph braking: 115ft Skid Pad: 0.88g Slalom: 67.1mph Compare to official stats/specs @ https://www.f30post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=592598 Acceleration: Rev-limited to 3,800 rpm with ESC on. No limit

Mercedes-Benz has released the official U.S. dollar figure for the 2012 C63 AMG Black Series, pricing it at $105,000, which is a $42,000-plus increase compared to the base 451-hp C63 AMG Coupe and not too far off from our original estimate of $102,000. The price disclosed by Mercedes does not