BMW working on new 400bhp quad-turbocharged diesel engine

[Peter_R]

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[X5Sport]

With the number of hair dryers they keep adding, they might as well go full gas turbine.....and use the IL6 as the starter/gas generator.... )

It's beginning to get a little silly now.  I know it's to do with not making the emissions any worse etc, but come on there must be a better way than just bolting more turbos on?

[shadrack]

[quote="X5Sport"]
With the number of hair dryers they keep adding, they might as well go full gas turbine.....and use the IL6 as the starter/gas generator.... )

It's beginning to get a little silly now.  I know it's to do with not making the emissions any worse etc, but come on there must be a better way than just bolting more turbos on?
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my mercedes was the right idea 6.3 v8 n/a engine  , none of this turbo'd rubbish

[X5Sport]

Probably be banned under EU7 regs......or by Boris in London!  )

[shadrack]

on mot i got told emmissions were so low you could breath the fumes which left me puzzled as to why i had to pay tax band M

[X5Sport]

Not sure what they were trying to measure as CO2 and NO are the difficult ones and I definitely would not want to breathe either of them!  Did they mean particulates?

[shadrack]

[quote="Peter_R"]
[quote="shadrack"]
on mot i got told emmissions were so low you could breath the fumes which left me puzzled as to why i had to pay tax band M
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Tax band M ?

Is that a typo?

Here are the rates..

https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/e ... -explained
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no tax band M £505 per year

[X5Sport]

Hence cleaner engines meeting EU5 appearing in short order! 

Some of the late E53/early E70 cars are Band L (or worse) but dropped several bands once the N57 series engine appeared from 2010.

[Serverking]

My 57 plate X5 3.0d was £475 a year to tax due to emissions