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Originally Posted by Levi

The BMW i100 is in fact the Vision Efficient Dynamics, a 2+2 seater, with mid- 1.5l 3 cylinder diesel engine with 160-180 HP, and 2 electric motors. About the M100 with an I6 I do not believe. The I3 engine is mounted tranversely, how will BMW fit an I6? IT is just NOT possible. There have to be 4 seats and not two. The only possiblity is a V6, but BMW / M does not have any V6, yet. Taking away two cylinders from the 4.4l V8 and making it a 3.3l V6 is possible but not the best way of building a V6. The V8 is 90°, and a V6 should rather be 60°. The car that is going to get a +450 HP I6 is not the M100, M version of Vision Efficient Dynamics, but the Z Spyder Stradale. It will have its I6 engine mounted longitudinally in front. BMW is not sure about the engine of this car yet, maybe, Z8 or Z9, it will either get the 3.0l I6 +450 HP form the M3 F32 or the 4.4l V8 +600 HP from the M6 F12, or maybe even both, there might be two versions of it.

I'd say that this might be the correct situation. This kind of like platform might not be the best way to bring out a new sportcar; rather pull out every bit of publicity of "eco-sportcar" with 80 g/km CO2 emissions without bringing M-version to spoil the product line? F32 M3 emits more than 200g/km what will not be a proud figure for "ordinary" car on 2013 - still good for 450 hp engine.

Anyway, 1100-1200 kg car with 300-450 hp engine sounds good. The article is obviously partly true, partly false. GK is well-informed, but sometimes fills his articles with speculations. Having personally worked with SLS on track and seen it's capabilities, this kind of like lightweight sportcar could'n be far from SLS concept and is nowhere near to compete with MB gullwing.