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BMW’;s heavyweight 2-doors get light updates.
The BMW M6 is a paradoxical car. Its name harks back to an epic road-burning coupe, one with a race-derived inline-6 engine, but in its existing kind it is a gigantic and heavy luxury machine that just takes place to be quickly. In each coupe and convertible forms, the M6 weighs in at about 2 tons, heft that is overcome making use of a 560-hp twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter V-7 Against this discussion of mass, let us introduce the 2015 M6—it’s nevertheless massive and porky, but it receives a light freshening this year, just as its 4-door Gran Coupe and pedestrian 2-door 6-series siblings do.
Actually, light does not even commence to describe the modifications BMW has created to the M6 for 2015. The company changed almost nothing about the car’s design and style. Even though the normal 6-series receives new, reduce front air intakes that are painfully reminiscent of Mercedes-AMG, the M6 keeps its earlier “jetfighter” appear intact, total with an appropriately jet-styled central front air intake and its host of subtle aerodynamic components.
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Only the headlights are changed, having switched to common complete-LED illumination and seeing the turn-signal components moved from the bottom to the top of the units. For the cabin, there are a couple of new colors and trim choices, and the infotainment method now delivers a lap timer application as well as GoPro video-camera integration. We’ve sampled BMW’s embedded GoPro camera controls in a new M3 sedan and found the widget nifty, if slightly restricted compared to the comparable GoPro iPhone app.
There are no changes to the M6’s great powertrain. The 560-hp twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter V-8 and 6-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission stay, and the pair delivers exhilarating performance. When once again, a 6-speed manual transmission occupies the option sheet as a no-expense item BMW wouldn’t provide the stick had been it not for the U.S. market place, which demanded it stayed. Perhaps there’s hope left for the original M6’s race-vehicle-for-the-street vision.
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Down the road, BMW will likely provide a Competitors Package, as it did beginning with the 2014- model-year M5 and M6. In those automobiles, the kit raised the V-8’s output to 575 horsepower, added a sports exhaust program, and modified the hydraulic power steering for far more directness. Provided how the base M6’s mechanical setup enters 2015 unchanged, do not count on the Competitors Package’s upgrades to deviate from the present tune.
Unfortunately, BMW’s mid cycle update for the M6 does not contain any sort of diet program. Stripping out some weight would go a extended way toward producing the strong coupe and convertible duo more engaging to drive. Of course, automakers tend to stray from important light-weighting measures when performing anything short of redesigning a model entirely, but at least BMW’s updates for the attractive and extremely capable M6 were light.
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