The S65 was a 4-liter V8 that produced more power than any engine the company had used in the M3 before. It wasn't necessarily the most powerful engine BMW ever built, but it was able to generate ...

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even fairly dull engines, are remarkably complex pieces of engineering, and take years to develop properly. However, sometimes simplicity is just as rewarding, and that's the case of BMW's S65 V8.

Frank Weber, the research & development boss at BMW, made it clear that V8s will continue to be offered in North America and ...

Where the Lexus and Audi units found above were closely related to more humdrum relatives, the S65 V8 was an entirely different entity from BMW’s other V8 engines. It was designed and developed ...