Variable valve timing isn’t necessarily a new idea, but it is new to BMW motorcycles. With a freshly designed 1,254 cc two-cylinder flat engine, VVT is arriving in BMW bikes for the first time with an ...

German automaker BMW has a long history of making inline-six engines, going all the way back to the early 1930s with the M78 engine. As the decades have passed, there have been many reconfigurations ...

Carmakers often give engines internal naming designations to identify them during engineering and production. Usually they're just a collection of letters and numbers, indecipherable to the average ...

Output is quoted at 175 horsepower and BMW says it will hit 62 mph in 7.0 seconds. The red five-door BMW 1 Series seen in this photo gallery has little to do with what is actually of importance here.

His automotive adventure started reporting on various motorsport events as a sports writer before moving onto a full-time auto career with various sites, including This Week In Motors and ...