All the love in the world for the S65 and lots of miles behind one, but here’s what keeps coming to mind when I hear the NA engine debate. IIRC, the S65 cost a lot more to manufacture than the S55. For the F80/F82 to improve in engine performance with a NA motor, it would need to approach, let’s say – S65B44 levels. I'd imagine it would cost the same, if not more than the S65 in its time.
Stuffing a S65B44 like engine into a F30/32 chassis would have left you with a car that performed no better than the E92. Just an upgrade in tech gadgets and sheet metal with the same performance would have buried this car. The R&D and materials that went into weight reduction cost money, and it had to come from some category. Unless you raise the base price of the car, in what other category could you have cut costs while improving performance? And without departing from the M luxo sports car formula?
Stuffing a S65B44 like engine into a F30/32 chassis would have left you with a car that performed no better than the E92. Just an upgrade in tech gadgets and sheet metal with the same performance would have buried this car. The R&D and materials that went into weight reduction cost money, and it had to come from some category. Unless you raise the base price of the car, in what other category could you have cut costs while improving performance? And without departing from the M luxo sports car formula?
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