Some BMW engines that tend to be more trouble than they're worth include the N47 I4 diesel, early variants of the N63 V8, the ...

German automaker BMW has a long history of making inline-six engines, going all the way back to the early 1930s with the M78 engine. As the decades have passed, there have been many reconfigurations ...

In what many would describe as simpler times, the automotive industry felt fewer constraints. Society in general wasn't as worried about environmental issues as it is today, and American consumers, in ...

Increasingly tighter emissions regulations, particularly in Europe, have threatened the traditional engine layouts found in many iconic sports cars. The Mercedes-AMG C63, for example, was long powered ...

BMW isn’t ready to phase out the V8 just yet, Americans should be proud. While the company has already retired the V12 and hasn’t offered a V10 in years, BMW development head Frank Weber recently ...

Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the M60 series, the M62 has a plethora of issues. Updated in 1998, the V8 motor is notorious for the poorly designed cooling up, VANOS problems, oil leaks, and ...

Since 2001, more than 7.5 million Mini, BMW and Rolls-Royce engines have been made at Hams Hall In a globalised world, it would be daft to think that a car company does everything it needs to do in ...