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      09-30-2011, 08:57 AM   #65
cstavaru
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Drives: 2009 335i M Sport Sedan 6MT
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I was thinking about the new 3-series a few days ago and I realized that the only thing likely to lure me to switch from my current 335i/N54 would be a powerful hybrid version (and the M3, of course).

But a hybrid with N55 is really a bit of a dead end as far as tuning goes. I'm sure it will have a lot of low-end torque but the N55 is not very tunable to begin with and I'm not sure the electric motor stuff can be tuned. I suppose there is no hope of an N54-derivative in the hybrid version because that is supposed to be very efficient and the N55 is more efficient than the N54.

So for now, I'll just keep my N54 sedan and hope that there is a strong twin-turbo on the way or the new M3 will have over 450hp and be very tunable. But I think that the new M3 will have 435hp / 335kw, or 10% more power than the current one, the same way as the new M5 has 10% more than the old one.
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