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BMW 8 Series 1989 - 1999
BMW 8 Series, 1989 - 1999
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The 8 Series BMW was produced with V8 or V12 engines and a 2 + 2 coupe body. It wasn’t an extension of the 6 Series, and a whole new class aimed at another market segment. The 8 Series was designed as a direct competitor to the upcoming Mercedes-Benz SL and CL classes. While MB cars are two-seater and four-seater, respectively, the BMW seats are 2 + 2. This BMW was the brand’s flagship at the time, the first production car to offer a V-12 engine mated to a 6-speed manual transmission. The most powerful version of the 850 Csi had a V12 5.5 L engine with 295 kW (401 hp) of torque, 550 Nm of torque and was able to reach an electronically limited top speed of 250 km / h per hour, but without the limiter the car could reach 299 km / h. At the time, it was infinitely impressive. The car was one of the first BMW cars to feature a multi-lever rear suspension along with the Z1.
BMW has spent almost $ 1 billion on the car development process! The company used computer-aided CAD design, which was a major innovation in those days and a wind tunnel. As a result, the car's air resistance coefficient was only 0.29 (while the BMW 6 Series was as high as 0.39).
 
  It is mistaken to believe that the Class 8 replaced the BMW 6 Class. In fact, it was a whole new class aimed at another market segment. The 8 Series was designed as a direct competitor to the upcoming Mercedes-Benz SL and CL classes.
 
It is the first production car to offer a V-12 engine mated to a 6-speed manual transmission.
 
The car was one of the first BMW cars to feature a multi-lever rear suspension along with the Z1.
 
In total, only 31,062 units of this car were produced.
 
The McLaren F1 supercar uses versions S70 / 2 and S70 / 3 of this BMW engine.
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