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Originally Posted by SteveinArizona
BMW is well known for sandbagging its HP numbers and several recent efforts at dynoing BMWs produced results were the HP at the wheels was close to the HP at the crank.
Since this is a BMW engine, that is what is likely happening.
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This is nothing new. BMW has advertised x horsepower and most of the time, they have been found to put out x horsepower at the wheels. The brilliance of this is then it's entered into a competition with other cars, all of which are advertised as having similar to "x horsepower", except being measured at the wheels, the BMW always has a hp/tq advantage and takes the performance figures.