VIDEO: Hartge V10 3-Series
BMW's V10 is lauded as one of the best engines in production. Based on know-how garnered building V10 engines for Williams F1 and then for its own Sauber team, the Bimmer V10 has blessed the M5 and M6 with supercar-level performance (if you can make sense of the electronics). In the V10, veteran BMW tuner Herbert Hartge saw the opportunity to apply the age-old formula for go-fast by shoehorning the big motor into a smaller package. The result, as we brought you last week, is the H50, a 3-Series with V10 power.
This 2:40 video gives you a good idea what the M-tuned, Hartge-massaged cylinders can do in a compact package. The narration's in German, but that's alright..."fast" is an international language.
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brad 2:12PM (12/18/2006)
thanks for this information
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Icheb 2:05PM (12/18/2006)
€168.000 for that thing? Oh dear.
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pk 2:18PM (12/18/2006)
Well Vishnu will be able to create a 500+ hp twin turbo (Xcede based) upgrade for about 15k in the near future.
Not quite the wow factor but alot more bang for the buck.
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carguy 2:17PM (12/18/2006)
Since C&D and other mags have clocked the stock 335 at 4.9 seconds to 60, it seems like a lot of cash to pay to an additional .5 of a second and ruining the BMW's weight distribution by making it nose heavy with a heavy V10 engine. How about just adjusting the boost on the 335 and you can get pretty much the same results but probably better handling as well as save yourself 100 grand?
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leo 2:22PM (12/18/2006)
- the wheels on that pic are awesome
but I bet if this car is tuned to 500HP, 60 will surely have to come under 4seconds
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RR 2:23PM (12/18/2006)
Over $200k for that. No thanks, I'd rather take the car the engine came from - the M5 or M6.
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pk 2:26PM (12/18/2006)
if the drivetrain could handle it would be cool to see a 500+ hp xi. Give the RS4 a run for the money.
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Fabulo 2:49PM (12/18/2006)
Dumb video. Or at least dumb exercise in the video. So much money and power to do power drifts and smoking tires? Wow. Stupid.
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Car videos & Motorcycle videos 2:50PM (12/18/2006)
Do people actually pay that much money for this car, I mean its a great car but the price is over double what I would pay for.
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Ivan the Terrible 3:14PM (12/18/2006)
Sure, BMWs are great, and this one is "Gee Whizzy" enough,
but if you could be SOBER for a minute
67% of all BMWS are DIESELS, amazingly, and they are far superior for everyday driving than any gas variants
It is a HUGE SHAME that none of the BMW DIesels is for sale in the USA.
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Seth 3:49PM (12/18/2006)
Dear sweet eight pound six ounce baby jesus!
I want one. it's juvenile to say,but given an inodrinate amount of money,i'd buy one,take all the hartage marks off,and paint it a stock color.
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Fredster 11:10AM (1/31/2007)
Jees, the 3-series does look so good...I'm sort of stuck between buying an RS4 or the new M3 coming 2007...What to do, what to do?
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Theodore Xithis 6:07PM (12/18/2006)
ti les tora
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Theodore Xithis 6:08PM (12/18/2006)
What are saying now!
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jaz 9:28PM (12/18/2006)
U know why its so expensive?? They have to buy a BMW M5 engine, transmission, drivetrain and all the electronics, then install it on an uglier 3 series body.
Amazing work by Hartage, but ide rather get an M5...
Looks better, probably handles better, and the performance difference in acceleration is probably insignificant.
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dave 12:05AM (12/19/2006)
is this some sort of gay out? 200K is way too much moolah!
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Online Kitchenware UK 10:59AM (12/19/2006)
Is it quicker than the M5
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