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Originally Posted by lemetier
MPPK Certification  |
Aha! The plot gets more intriguing.
I could easily be totally off, but it seems to me that the X3 M40i might also be powered by what is essentially the current B58 with the MPPK from the factory. This might explain why we didn't see evidence of a 355hp B58B30M0 brought forward before it showed up in the production vehicle. In fact, a few folks who correctly predicted that the X3 M40i would get 355hp believed so for basically that reason - that there was already a "production" car with the B58 + MPPK. Namely, this guy:
http://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/sho....php?t=1335467
By the way, whoever is maintaining the wikipedia page for the B58 (and someone actively is - its been updated since I last checked a month or so ago) still seems to think that only the original 322hp iteration is the "M0", while they call the later versions the "O0":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_B58#Models
So, I guess if we assume that the new B58 "Tu" makes as much as 355hp-ish in "factory" form, then with the future MPPK designed for those engines, 385hp seems reasonable. Question is, if the X3 40i is indeed just that - a B58 with the MPPK standard @ 355hp - will they do the same for the Z4 M40i, a B58Tu with MPPK standard @ 385hp?