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The V12 is on the way out in the US luxury car sector, and these are the final two cars that feature an example of the ...

Case in point, when McLaren was developing its BMW-sourced naturally-aspirated 6.1-liter V12 for the legendary F1, the company put the engine in … a BMW M5 wagon? Yup, you read that correctly.

When Gordon Murray decided to build the ultimate road-legal supercar for McLaren, he ended up in Germany where he convinced BMW’s Motorsport division to design one of the most impressive engines ...

That vehicle is none other than the BMW X5 Le Mans. Yes, it has the McLaren’s BMW-sourced V12 under the hood, it sounds like an F1 car, and it’s an SUV. via BMW M The BMW X5 Le Mans is the ...

It was only a few years later that BMW would produce probably the ultimate V12, the 618-horsepower heart of the McLaren F1. But there was one engine sat in the middle that never quite made it into ...

Cosworth Initially, Murray wanted a 3.3-liter V12. However, to make the T.50 faster than a McLaren F1 with such a small engine, the T.50 needed to drop its wet weight to around 1,984 pounds.

50's engine, which they describe as "the greatest road-car V12 ever made." When he was at McLaren in the '90s, Murray turned to his friend Paul Rosche at BMW to build the F1's bespoke engine.

After tiring of the racetrack, he turned his attention to detail to road-going sports cars, designing first the Light Car Company Rocket and then the McLaren F1, a three-seat V12 riot in carbon ...

The S70/2 is BMW M GmbH's 627 horsepower naturally aspirated V12 that you only take out of your McLaren F1 if you know your stuff. At the McLaren Technology Center in Woking, they certainly do.

Initially declined by Honda — an avid player in Formula 1 racing — McLaren then approached BMW, where it was able to strike a deal for the desired V12. Like BMW's mass-produced 5.0 liter V12 ...

who did their best to offer the best V12 in its range-topping vehicles. It would be the British racing operation McLaren that proved to be the match to ignite this particular flame, so CarBuzz ...