Twin-turbo 6.6-litre V12 ✅ 610hp ✅ 0-62mph in 3.7 seconds ✅ And it's also an absolute bargain 👀
It’s been a year of hard truths for car enthusiasts. Porsche is fully committed to eventually removing the engine from the Boxster and Cayman, Mercedes-AMG has slashed the cylinder count of the C63 in half, and BMW has officially. No great surprise, really, and the final dozen V12s will be sold exclusively in the USA, but the loss of any twelve-cylinder engine is always a bitter pill to swallow.
BMW’s relationship with V12 power is a strange one. Typically, twelve-cylinder engines only appeared in screaming, high-performance guise with the likes of the S70/2 that powered the McLaren F1, the S70/3 in BMW’s LMR Le Mans machine, and various nutty concepts such as the E31 M8 prototype. But on the production side, particularly in recent years, the V12 was a symbol of effortless performance, featuring in BMW’s flagship luxo barges and the odd Rolls-Royce.
You'll probably recall that our last taste of sweet BMW V12 goodness was this thing: the M760Li xDrive. Despite weighing 2.2 tonnes and measuring in at nearly 5.3 metres, the M760Li was a surprisingly capable performance car, all things considered. Dan T actually took one out on track a few years back, where it was, admittedly, completely out of its comfort zone.
Truthfully, though, the M760Li is at its best on a Munich to Hamburg autobahn blast. For instance, the car’s Adaptive mode can assess your driving style, along with the terrain and road layout to switch between different driving settings. Self-levelling suspension works its backside off to prevent the car from wallowing in the bends, and it’ll even park itself if you’re feeling extra lazy.
. In many ways, the heavyweight tech and last-of-the-line status made it something of a bargain right out of the box - now, just five years later, it's a positive steal.
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