Deep buried into the press release issued yesterday regarding the new BMW Aerodynamic Center, there was a reference to a new twin-turbo diesel fuel engine which will be bachelor in the about future. Now we don't know why BMW decided to denote this softly, but lesser line is that we love to see a new powerful and more efficient diesel engine existence available.

Now we still expect a new proclamation by the finish of this year regarding a Tri-Turbo powerful engine, just in the mean time, this new twin-turbo diesel really excites us.

The 3.0 liter diesel engine is matted to an eight-speed transmission and it outputs 306 horsepower an engine speed of 4,400 rpm with top torque of 600 Newton-meters/442 lb-ft at just 1,500 rpm.

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Not the bodily engine

The new engine becomes the well-nigh sporting and dynamic 6-cylinder diesel fuel in the world, at the same time offer four per cent lower fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

For more information, feel costless to scan through the press release beneath.

BMW Applied science Day 2009.EfficientDynamics.

Lower emissions, more driving pleasure: No other car maker likewise the BMW Grouping applies this principle so assuredly and successfully in practise. Both today and in a long-term comparing, BMW and MINI are far ahead of all competitors in the premium segment in reducing both fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

This unique position held by the BMW Group is the result of the EfficientDynamics development strategy comprising all innovations serving to reduce fuel consumption and emissions versus the erstwhile model and, at the aforementioned time, enhance road performance to an even college standard.

This is made possible by the fundamental, all-round philosophy of BMW EfficientDynamics. Optimisation of vehicle efficiency is indeed the guideline practical past the BMW Group in all areas of vehicle development, bearing testimony to the unique competence of the BMW Grouping in terms of powertrain, transmission and suspension engineering, promoting the intelligent catamenia of energy within the vehicle also as the intelligent choice of materials for superior lightweight construction, and ensuring the permanent optimisation of aerodynamics.

Like the latest results in the surface area of engine and transmission development, the new Aerodynamic Examination Centre (ATC) now completed by the BMW Grouping clearly confirms the Company'due south consistent quest for further progress in the context of EfficientDynamics. Ongoing reduction of fuel consumption and emissions calls time and again for new, massive investments in the Company's research and development facilities, since just highly qualified specialists using the most advanced engineering are able to create trendsetting, future-oriented concepts for private mobility.

As the world's near successful manufacturer of premium cars, the BMW Group readily faces this responsibility and develops an above-average commitment in offering Sheer Driving Pleasure on even less fuel and with even lower emissions.

The virtually efficient premium cars come from BMW and MINI.
Innovations serving to reduce fuel consumption and emissions are an simple part of the production substance in each and every BMW and MINI. Then it is fair to say that every new BMW and MINI comes with the latest features in EfficientDynamics combined individually in each case in accordance with the grapheme and nature of the respective model.

No other car maker currently offers such a huge range of efficiency-promoting technologies throughout all vehicle segments, without even charging an extra price for these breakthroughs in technology. So over again, this arroyo to the requirements of today and tomorrow confirms the unique character and philosophy of BMW EfficientDynamics in the earth of motoring.

Through the consistent use of advisable technologies with their high impact throughout the entire model range, BMW is able to offer a full-calibration, all-inclusive comeback significantly reducing CO2 emissions in road traffic.
The unique BMW EfficientDynamics strategy comes out clearly in an objective comparison of boilerplate fuel consumption and emission figures. Co-ordinate to statistics compiled by the German language Motor Vehicle Registration Authority, the average fuel consumption of all BMW and MINI vehicles registered in Germany in 2008 is merely five.9 litres/100 kilometres, equal to 47.ix mpg imp, the average CO2 rating is 158 grams per kilometre. Both figures are significantly lower than the average of all vehicles registered in Germany in 2008.

Making further progress in the improvement of efficiency in contempo times, the BMW Grouping stands out clearly also from other manufacturers in the premium segment. From 2006 to 2008 lone, BMW's average fuel consumption and CO2 ratings were downwardly by 16, the average MINI ratings by 20 per cent. These improvements are more than than twice as practiced equally the next-best level of comeback achieved past a competitor in the premium segment.

In all, the reduction in average CO2 emissions achieved past the BMW Group, every bit calculated by the German Motor Vehicle Registration Authority every bit a non-partisan observer, is four times greater than the boilerplate figure for all car makers operating in the German market place.

EfficientDynamics: a firm part of the BMW Group's product substance and corporate philosophy.
The leadership held past the BMW Grouping over the contest results not merely from curt-term action or new priorities, but is rather the result of a consistent, ongoing strategy. On a European level this is borne out, amid other things, by a reduction of armada consumption betwixt 1995 and 2008 of far more than 25 per cent, significant that the BMW Group with the BMW and MINI brands has already over-fulfilled the delivery made by the Association of European Machine Manufacturers (ACEA).

The EfficientDynamics development strategy, product processes able to salve resources, and high social standards for employees at all visitor locations are fundamental highlights of the BMW Grouping'southward corporate philosophy. These factors assistance not simply the products made by the BMW Group, only likewise the Company itself, to have on and maintain an outstanding position within the motorcar manufacture – a position reflected, amid other things, by the latest Dow Jones Index. This ranking compiled jointly by the Dow Jones Indices, Stoxx Limited, and the Zurich-based Avails Management Company SAM, is acknowledged as the world'south most of import benchmark for entrepreneurial responsibility. And precisely here the BMW Group is ranked for the fourth time in a row equally the "Earth's Near Sustainable Car Maker".

Through its articulate focus on innovation and sustainability, the BMW Group is particularly well prepared for the challenges of the future. The BMW Group uses its competence in engineering science and financial resources specifically to offer vehicles combining supreme efficiency and fascinating performance both today and in the time to come.

An investment in the future: the Aerodynamic Test Centre.

No other machine maker is as committed every bit the BMW Group to making lasting and substantial investments in the enhanced efficiency of new models. Building the new Aerodynamic Test Centre, the BMW Group now has even greater competence and qualifications than before in the area of innovative technologies contributing in the medium and long term to the farther improvement of all BMW and MINI models in their fundamental strengths and benefits. For optimisation of the car'southward aerodynamic qualities improves both its performance and efficiency, likewise as the driving stability offered by the automobile on the road. Precisely this is why optimum aerodynamics is already a fundamental cistron today in the development of new models.

Building the ATC, the BMW Group is giving even greater accent to the ongoing enhancement of aerodynamics every bit an essential cornerstone of the EfficientDynamics philosophy. Optimised aerodynamics have a direct bear upon on the car'southward fuel economy and emission management, a reduction of air drag by x per cent offering the customer a reduction in fuel consumption on the road by more than 2.5 per cent – and even such an at first sight "insignificant" improvement is of great importance to the BMW Group equally part of an overall package for the enhancement of efficiency.

With BMW Group cars already offering excellent aerodynamic qualities today, farther comeback and, indeed, optimisation, calls for a substantial investment. And so making such an investment in the ATC, the BMW Group clearly expresses its intention to use all facilities as well in future in order to better both fuel economy and emission direction to an even higher standard.

The ATC offers new options and potentials in analysing the aerodynamic qualities of a car – and at the same time flexible processes applied at the ATC besides equally its location in the immediate vicinity of the BMW Group'southward Inquiry and Innovation Centre (FIZ) optimises the integration of all activities in the overall process of vehicle development. In future, therefore, the BMW Group's aerodynamic specialists will be working side by side door and paw-in-manus with BMW's designers, constructors, engine specialists and other experts.

Over and to a higher place such enhanced integration into the evolution process, the ATC has facilities and capabilities unique the world over in determining aero-dynamic features and qualities in a truly realistic process. One option, for case, is to analyse new models at a very early stage of development in a wide range of unlike situations with all exam scenarios following real-life driving weather. This means not only the consideration of all kinds of speed ranges, simply besides dissimilar driving situations such as driving in a curve, taking the bodily motility of the body into account.

A further point is that the ATC is now able for the first time to render and analyse the interaction of a motorcar with other vehicles, for instance when overtaking, thus offer all the same another new benefit in the development of production cars.
And then far such tests could just be conducted on the exam track, with cars almost completely developed in every respect. Now the knowledge gained in this process tin be fed back into the development process much earlier, serving to effectively optimise a new model right from the start.

Most advanced wind tunnel technology for realistic measurements.

The BMW Group's new Aerodynamic Examination Centre is the world'southward nigh modernistic facility of its kind throughout the entire automotive industry. The ATC comprises a wind tunnel serving to analyse vehicles in their original size. To reproduce the almost of import effects and phenomena when driving on the road, the road surface is modelled through a simulation process using no less than 5 rolling tracks.

A second wind tunnel allows the engineer to movement the models tested from one position to the other by means of a command arrangement operating in all directions above the earth'southward largest rolling route in a current of air tunnel. This serves to analyse vehicle flow conditions under all kinds of circumstances, applying a concept already used for a number of years in motorsport. Now, therefore, aerodynamics and driving dynamics may interact and be combined with 1 some other besides in the development of production cars.

The number of scenarios available as well every bit the precision of the exam processes applied at the ATC offer a standard quite unique for a facility of this kind. Both air current tunnels, to mention just one example, are able to generate an air flow velocity of upwards to 300 km/h or 186 mph, for the showtime time providing exactly the correct, correct concrete conditions for the measurement of true-to-scale models.

In all, the BMW Group has invested some Euro 170 million in the construction of the Aerodynamic Examination Centre and the facilities/equipment used. Within about three years, the 5-floor building constructed on a piece of land measuring approximately 25,000 foursquare metres or half dozen.2 acres has been completed in the immediate vicinity of the Munich FIZ Research and Innovation Heart and boasts architecture quite unique at very beginning sight, providing a clear hint from the beginning that the applied science used inside is very special indeed.

I example of this distinctive expect and architecture is the round contour of the fan for the horizontally bundled air catamenia ring in the main wind tunnel clearly recognisable on the southern side of the building. The vertical air flow ring for the model wind tunnel, in turn, likewise stands out clearly in the centre of the ATC.

BMW's EfficientDynamics specialists focusing in the ATC specifically on aerodynamics used to work at no less than 5 different locations before moving into the new Test Heart, travelling up to xx kilometres in order to piece of work together in the wind tunnel. Now, by putting all these specialists together in ane building, the BMW Grouping ensures direct contact with extremely minor distances between the diverse specialists and has established new processes for highly efficient interaction and cooperation. In all, some 500 specialists in BMW EfficientDynamics will exist working together in the new edifice.

Even more efficient: new generation of directly-6 ability units with turbocharger technology.

Together with the new ATC, BMW is proudly presenting the latest results in the development of especially powerful and, at the same fourth dimension, impressively economical straight-six power units. Indeed, these new engines, whether running on gasoline or diesel fuel, offering a significantly better residuum of fuel economic system and superior performance than ever earlier – quite simply, because both engines use special technologies developed by BMW to heighten both efficiency and dynamic performance. Both ability units therefore offer the same kind of momentum and superiority in the development of power otherwise provided only by a much larger eight-cylinder, while at the same fourth dimension they are naturally much lighter and offer essentially better fuel economy and emission direction.
BMW's new TwinPower Turbo gasoline engine developing 225 kW/306 hp for the first time combines turbocharging, direct fuel injection and fully variable valve management in one drive unit. This combination of a twin-curl turbocharger with Loftier Precision Injection and VALVETRONIC sectional to BMW gives the new engine fully suited for the world market non only unusually spontaneous and straight behaviour, only also uncommonly low fuel consumption and emission ratings.

This 3.0-litre six-cylinder develops its maximum torque of 400 Newton-metres or 295 lb-ft at an engine speed of but i,200 rpm and then maintains this superior torque level all the manner to 5,000 rpm. In comparison with the directly-six featuring Twin Turbo technology and High Precision Injection already featured in several model serial, the engine at the same time offers a further reduction of fuel consumption by up to 9 per cent.

Introducing an additional peak version of the six-cylinder diesel fuel already featured in the BMW 730d and the BMW 330d, BMW once over again proves the outstanding potential this engine technology has to offer. Again, the new generation of BMW's straight-six diesel, combining multi-stage turbocharging with mutual-rails direct fuel injection, offers fascinatingly dynamic power and operation with maximum efficiency. And again in the spirit of BMW EfficientDynamics, numerous innovations on the all-aluminium engine every bit such, the 2 turbochargers and the injection organization ensure a significant increment in power also every bit a further reduction of fuel consumption and emissions. Non only the turbocharger system is even more than efficient than before, just also the supply of fuel through piezo-injectors operating at an injection pressure of up to 2,000 bar.

The new three.0-litre BMW TwinPower Turbo diesel delivers maximum output of 225 kW/306 hp at an engine speed of 4,400 rpm, with acme torque of 600 Newton-metres/442 lb-ft at just 1,500 rpm. These figures lone permit the new engine to take over the leading position from its own predecessor as the most sporting and dynamic six-cylinder diesel in the earth, at the same time offer some 4 per cent lower fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
BMW'due south new eight-speed automatic transmission: the intelligent mode to more gears, greater efficiency and enhanced driving dynamics.

BMW'south new 8-speed automated transmission is yet another example of how outstanding engineering qualities are able to offer a significant comeback in driving pleasure and, at the aforementioned time, far greater efficiency than ever earlier.

This innovative power transmission showtime introduced in the twelve-cylinder BMW 760i and BMW 760Li excels in item through its exceptional efficiency and wide range of qualities. At the same time, through its special characteristics, the new viii-speed transmission raises both the motoring comfort and the dynamic performance of the respective model to an even higher standard.

However a further of import point is that this significant progress over BMW's vi-speed automated transmissions already lauded the world over for their superior gearshift dynamics and efficiency has been achieved in a specially intelligent manner. The two additional gears requite the entire transmission an fifty-fifty broader range of increments and, at the same time, proceed the change in engine speed when shifting from one gear to the other even smaller than earlier. Thank you to the innovative configuration of the gearsets, the number of additional components required and, appropriately, the weight of the new eight-speed automatic transmisson, has been reduced to a minimum.

Converter slip limited to the everyman range of engine speeds, a high degree of inner efficiency, low frictional losses with only two clutches open at a fourth dimension, the longer transmission ratio of the higher gears, and the improved suppression of vibrations enabling the driver to apply the automobile much more at low speeds, help to reduce fuel consumption versus the former half-dozen-speed automatic transmission by approximately 6 per cent.

A further important signal is that the viii-speed automatic transmission enhances the dynamic qualities of the engine by opening and closing only one clutch at a time in most all gearshifts, even when shifting down by more one gear. This offers an important do good so far provided only by the double-clutch gearbox and combined in this instance with all the benefits of an automated transmission relevant to the client, such equally dynamic acceleration from low engine speeds.

The new 8-speed automatic transmission is also a particularly hereafter-oriented solution for the transmission of power in a premium car. It may be combined with all kinds of engines varying in their blueprint and performance, being used not only in cars with rear-wheel drive, just besides in all-wheel-drive models. And at the aforementioned fourth dimension the 8-speed automatic manual likewise has all the qualities to form a perfect combination with hybrid drive. This lone ensures a unique blend of efficiency and dynamism on a brand-new level, proving that this concept perfectly suited for the futurity will exist heading for success after reaching production level in the form of 2009.
The new options offered by BMW'southward Aerodynamic Test Centre, together with current and futurity innovations in drivetrain engineering, will serve on many occasions to solve the disharmonize of interests between growing dynamics and optimised economic system in all segments of the market. Every bit a consequence, therefore, the BMW Grouping has an fifty-fifty better position than ever before in developing cars for the future which, through their pattern and driving qualities, volition offer a fascinating driving experience combined with equally supreme fuel economy and emission management.

[Source: Bimmerpost]