BMW unveils its new product line BMW Performance M, where we find the first four representatives M550d xDrive Sedan, M550d xDrive Touring, X5 and X6 xDrive M50d M50d xDrive.
Time required a new category of cars that manage to provide great performance, bearing in mind the fuel consumption. It is not enough to produce huge desaťvalce and assemble the cars tremendous power at the cost of catastrophic consumption. This scenario is also downsizing (reducing engine), it has launched many automobile and 10-cylinder became 8-cylinders of 8-Vacov 6-cylinder engines to the smallest, where he moved up to 1.0 or 0.9 dvojvalcom liter. Even wealthier customers are already looking at the fuel efficiency of cars and in one another can provide the same power consumption in half, getting the order of their ranking higher.
A new workshop in extreme BMW M is a new group of vehicles, except that the connection: everyday usability and performance and added value of consumption and emissions. The new category was renamed BMW M Performance and while the first four groups of representatives, which are models M550d xDrive Sedan, M550d xDrive Touring, X5 and X6 xDrive M50d M50d xDrive. Each of these models is equipped with the same engine, which is an innovative six-cylinder diesel on a volume of three liters. What makes it interesting is that the first engine of this company has only three turbo.
The innovative six-cylinder engine has an output of 381 hp (280 kW) and 740 Nm of torque. Extremely agile provides three turbochargers, whose configuration, size and strategy of cooperation provides an objective - to provide maximum traction and performance in the widest range of speeds. The turbocharger consists of two smaller and one larger turbo. Two smaller using their smaller inertia and are designed to provide immediate sharp response, while large for the highest possible boost.
The engine is extremely interesting liter 127.3 horse power (93.6 kW) and torque of 740 Nm from 2000 rpm. The model can handle these values M550d xDrive Sedan sprint from 0 to 100 km / h in 4.7 seconds, achieving an average consumption of just 6.3 l/100 km. These values are worded almost unbelievable, but has the right to provide a system of three turbochargers.
Model
M550d xDrive Sedan
M550d xDrive Touring
X5 M50d
X6 M50d
acceleration 0-100 km (s)
4.7
4.9
5.4
5.3
maximum speed (km / h)
250
250
250
250
Combined fuel consumption (l/100 km)
6.3
6.4
7.5
7.7
CO2 emissions (g / km)
165
169
199
204
emission standard
EU6
EU6
EU5
EU5
These models will be the first 'BMWs' with the letter M and more than one digit in it. In 1980 BMW introduced a new model M535 with increased power to 218 hp (160 kW) and a modified chassis. Then came the second generation of the new M535, which sold in the years 1984 to 1987. Now comes the new BMW Performance range of M, which has to offer cars with solid performance, but also environmentally friendly.
In the gallery you will find all four models made by BMW M Performance in the video and you'll see these models in motion, along with the comments people made by BMW M.
