The New BMW M6.

Together with the outstanding, uncompromising suspension designed and built exclusively for sporting performance, this supreme power unit gives
the BMW M6 all the qualities of a thoroughbred supersports. But unlike its com­pet­itors usually offering only two seats, the BMW M6 comes with all
the space and comfort of a typical 2+2-seater, plus the luxurious features of
a typical luxury performance BMW.

The success principle: True power in a discreet package.

The BMW M6 shares its supreme power unit with the BMW M5. Ever since being introduced in the M5, this engine has been acknowledged as the
ab­so­lute benchmark, just as the M5 is the very epitome of the Sports Saloon.

Now, introducing even more superior performance data, the BMW M6 sets
a new standard in the segment of high-performance 2+2-seater luxury sports cars. Creating this unique model, the engineers at BMW M GmbH have
fo­cused not only on the sheer power of the engine, but also on the weight of the body and, as a result, the mass to be accelerated as quickly as possible
on the road. Reducing weight to a sensible minimum, the M6 comes with all the driving dynamics required for the race track, while in terms of motoring comfort and equipment it is simply ideal for all roads the world over. Not least, the body design of the BMW M6 modified only discreetly versus the elegant look of the BMW Coupé comes with all the understatement so characteristic of all M Models as their elementary feature.

Interacting with the seven-speed SMG transmission, the magnificent chassis and suspension, the elegant body in innovative lightweight technology,
as well as the wide range of luxury equipment, the ten-cylinder high-speed en­gine gives the customer a brand-new dimension in motoring performance.
It is indeed difficult to find any genuine competitors to the M6, since all other more or less comparable cars are either all-out supersports or sports sa­loons

far inferior in terms of agility. So given the car’s innovative drive con­cept,
a power-to-weight ratio even better than on the M5, as well as unique
handling – and all this with all the everyday driving qualities of a large coupé – the engineers at BMW M GmbH rightly claim that the new BMW M6 truly comes in a class of its own.

V10 power unit running at racing speeds.

Sharing BMW’s V10 power unit, the M5 and M6 come with one of the rare high-speed engines in regular saloon and coupé production. Within the
en­tire BMW family, the V10 is indeed the most demanding engine in technical terms and, without doubt, the top performer in every respect.

Power and performance, however, are not everything. Rather, what really counts is a car’s acceleration and driving dynamics on the road. And this
de­pends, first, on the weight of a car and, second, on the thrust and
power which actually goes to the drive wheels – which, in turn, is a result of engine torque and the overall transmission ratio. BMW’s high-speed engine concept allows an optimum gearbox and final drive transmission ratio in
all cases, thus guaranteeing impressive thrust and momentum on the road
at all times.

The perfect choice: High-revving concept.

A compact, high-revving normal-aspiration engine is the best of all strategies in generating maximum engine output: Revving up to speed of 8,250 rpm,
the V10 reaches a speed range reserved until recently to purebred racing cars alone. As a result, the engine easily outperforms the magical limit of 100 bhp per litre, again achieving specific output of a standard otherwise only found in motorsport.

The two five-cylinder banks in the V10 are arranged at an angle of 90° in order to optimise the standard of vibration control and motoring comfort of­fer­ed by full mass compensation on the crankdrive. Taking the substantial forces of the combustion process, high engine speeds and vibrations into account,
the crankcase comes in bedplate design. The extremely stiff crank­shaft,
in turn, runs in six bearings.

Variable dual-VANOS camshaft control ensures an optimum cylinder charge cycle in the interest of extremely fast valve timing. On the road this means even more performance, an improved torque curve, optimum responsive­ness,
lower fuel consumption, and emissions reduced to a minimum. Again reflecting the typical features of motorsport, each cylinder comes with its own throttle butterfly masterminded fully electronically for each row of cyl­inders.