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The BMW i8 Spyder won the 2013 Best Production Preview Vehicle award. [105] The i8 won AutoGuide ' s 2015 Reader's Choice Green Car of the Year. [106] BMW's i8 was the winner of the title 'World Green car of the Year' at Fame India Eco Drive 2015. [107] It also was selected as Autoblog's 2014 Technology of the Year. [108]
Ford never adopted the straight-eight; their entry-level Ford cars used flathead V8 engines until the 1950s while their Lincoln luxury cars used V8 from the 1930s to the 1980s and V12 engines in the 1930s and 1940s. Chrysler used flathead straight-eights in its premium Chrysler cars, including the Imperial luxury model.
BMW is well known for its history of inline-six (straight-six) engines, a layout it continues to use to this day despite most other manufacturers switching to a V6 layout. . The more common inline-four and V8 layouts are also produced by BMW, and at times the company has produced inline-three, V10 and V12 engines, BMW also engineered non-production customised engines especially for motorsports ...
BMW hasn't offered a high-dollar, flashy sports car since the departure of the i8 in 2020, but the company's head of design recently showed off a shelved successor.
The use of BMW's eDrive technology on the established X5 platform is a direct technology transfer from the BMW i cars, in particular, from the BMW i8 technology. [ 121 ] In February 2016, BMW announced the introduction of the "iPerformance" model designation, which was given to all BMW plug-in hybrid vehicles from July 2016.
Production cars Model series Years Vehicle class 3/15: 1927–1932: Economy car 3/20 PS: 1932–1934: Compact car 303: 1933–1937: Compact car 328: 1936–1940: Roadster 326: 1936–1941: Mid-size luxury car 327: 1937–1941: Grand tourer 320: 1937–1938: Mid-size luxury car 321: 1938–1941: Mid-size luxury car 335: 1939–1941: Full-size ...
The first hybrid BMW was the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid 7, and BMW's first mass-production electric car was the BMW i3 city car, which was released in 2013, (from 1968 to 1972, BMW built two battery-electric BMW 1602 Elektro saloons for the 1972 Olympic Games). [18]
The BMW OHV V8 is an overhead valve V8 petrol engine produced from 1954 to 1965. It is BMW's first V8 engine, and BMW did not produce another V8 automobile engine until the BMW M60 in 1992. The engine does not have an official model code, [ 1 ] therefore it is often identified through being the only overhead valve ("OHV") V8 engine produced by ...