BMW Finally Acknowledges Inline-Six, Sticks It In A Motorcycle [Motorcycles]
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While BMW cars have spent the last two decades moving away from the inline-six that made them so famous, it looks like BMW motorcycles are soon going to adopt the configuration for a production bike. BMW says that an inline-six is particularly suitable for use in motorcycles because they offer, "not only supreme smoothness and refinement, but also superior power and performance as well as a truly...
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BMW Concept 6 [video] BMW introduced an inline six-cylinder café racer concept at the 2009 EICMA show in Milan, Italy. Inline-six engines have a staple in BMW’s automobiles for decades and the German manufacturer’s motorcycle division took on the challenge of adapting the straight-six to a bike without making it too long or too wide. The result is the BMW [...] more