BMW M8 is a sweet story and bitter of ambition and unrealized capabilities.
It was the eighties of the last century in the afternoon of the surplus, with the high lifestyles led to heinous cars equally. The race for the title “The Fastest Car in the World” has pushed engineering boundaries with the prosperity of the super car market.
Porsche 959 and Ferrari’s F40 broke a 200 mph barrier, while post -sales monsters such as RUF’s CTR Yellowbird and Callaway Sleedgehammer amounted to 217 miles per hour and 255 miles per hour, respectively.
This need for speed increased in the nineties, with new competitors such as Jaguar’s XJ220, Lamborghini Diablo and Bugatti’s EB110 enter the mixture. BMW M, already famous for creating some of the best high -performance road cars, required in the event and appointment to work.
M goal? To convert the BMW Grand Tourer into a Bonafide supercar, which it will not only compete, but overwhelmed its competitor and supply the name BMW at the upper end of the auto industry.
E31 was an excellent starting point. With 0.29 clouds, it was more dynamic than Porsche 959, XJ220 and even McLaren F1. The BMW M design has designed the design using a set and fenders for feedback, wide box torches, and integrated mirrors, not to mention the disposal of pop-up headlights-a change moved by aerodynamics and the engine bay packaging.
In 1992, BMW 850csi, the main model of E31, was launched, equipped with 5.6 liters, 380 hp S70 V12. But this engine is affected by the M8.
The S70/2 was developed in M8 as a final version of the BMW V12. Although he participated in the same basic mass design, the M8 engine includes customized cylinders and an internal engine around the smooth CSI engine to the quad -cam, the Susira 640 hp.
To put it in the right quorum, Bugatti EB110 produced in SuperSport Spec 603 hp, and the strongest Diablo GT 575 hp only.
It is not only the strength and the characteristic of the M8 from the typical E31. To get rid of weight, the GRP plastic M. Use the doors, the boot cover, and the head -free head covering.
Inside the M8, comfort made a way of performance: luxurious front seats were replaced by RCARO parks with an unique M-style M-style, and the rear seat was completely removed. Both the driver and the passenger were secured by the Sabelt Harnsses.
The eagle may notice the hard B columns of M8. The E31S was all a coupe lower than a column, but with 640 hp by sending a 6 -speed manual gearbox and tires of the 1990s, the decision to enhance the logical structure is completely.
Despite the capabilities of the first M8 model, I will never forgive BMW not to put it in production. And yes, I admit that my disappointment is a deep character.
This is one of those rare moments in which I cannot completely separate my feelings from my comment because E31 occupies a special place in my heart. Why? My mother has owned the sport of E31 840ci since I was 10 years old.
Seeing this shape covered with the shark for the first time a mental dawn. For my young eyes, it was a super car. As old, I understood that the eight series was the Grand Touraler game, but I have always seen a much larger thing – a car that could become a real Bavarian icon.
M8 is just one in a long list of “almost” That remains BMW for decades – understood, perhaps, after financial failures at 507 and M1. But this one feels different. The M8 could have been incredible, and it is a real world.
The E31 M8 will remain a preliminary model, and its full possibility is a mystery. However, I believe a firm belief that he would have showed the scientist that BMW was king.
Mario Christo
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