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Rumor: BMW X3M Coming Soon with Tri-Turbo Engine!
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Coming Soon, the BMW X3M SAV. With BMW's recent surge in product expansion, the rumor has naturally floated around that they would produce an M version of its most compact SAV, especially given the fact that they already make M versions of the bigger and heavier X5 and X6 SAV's. Fair enough, but no prototypes have been seen driving around, no leaked bumpers on eBay. Nada.

But now, CARMagazine, citing some very well placed sources, is stating that the X3M is going to launch in 2012. Not only will it be a whole new M vehicle, but they believe it will use the many times rumored tri-turbo engine.

This immediatly begs the question, would BMW M engineer a whole new engine just for the X3 M? Mostly likely not, and whatever this engine is, we could see it in a similar platform vehicle (*cough F30 M3 cough*). So even if you are not an M SAV fan, keep your eyes peeled on this vehicle because it could be very telling about what exactly will power the next M3 (current speculation). The relationship between the S63 in the X5M and M5 comes to mind. If a whole new engine doesn't ultimatly appear in the X3 M, then we would expect something along the lines of the 1M with an N54 based unit.

[Source: CAR Magazine]

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