04
December
2012
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14:56
Europe/Amsterdam

The new BMW M3

Summary
As the BMW Group enters each new season in motorsport, the company feels new and fresh ambition, queries formally proven recipes for success, and focusses on new records and outstanding achievements. This also applies – exactly – to the debut of the all new BMW M3!

Having completed its test cycle with flying colours, the new high-performance sports car from BMW M GmbH is ready and waiting to take over pole position. And, with its superior power, performance and dynamism, the new BMW M3 ensures truly unique sheer driving pleasure of the highest calibre.

The new 309 kW V8 power unit offers enormous muscle and performance at all times. And the aesthetic design of the new car is once again typical of BMW M and spells out supremacy of the highest standard. 

The new BMW M3 sets the foundation for continuing an exceptional career in motorsport. So every enthusiast sharing this passion for supreme performance can be sure that this model is able to master even the greatest challenge on and off the race track. And last, but certainly not least, the new BMW M3 offers the supreme standard of reliability and everyday driving qualities so typical of all high-performance cars from BMW M GmbH.

The all-new “heart” of the latest BMW M3 is the eight-cylinder power unit which, through its high-speed engine concept alone, comes with all the DNA of the current Formula 1 engine raced by the BMW Sauber F1 Team.

Applying this high-speed concept characteristic of all BMW M power units, the new V8 develops maximum output of 309 kW from engine capacity of precisely 3,999 cc. Further equally impressive factors are the engine’s peak torque of 400 Newton-metres as well as maximum engine speed of 8, 400 rpm.

 

Truly unprecedented, however, is the thrust and pulling force generated through this unique potential, conveying the supreme power of the engine through the variable M differential lock to the rear wheels. Precisely this is
why the new BMW M3 is not only outstandingly responsive in its acceleration, but also completely shattering in the way it develops its power.

 

Press Contact: Edward Makwana
Tel: +27-12-522-2227
E-mail: edward.makwana@bmw.co.za