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Originally Posted by mkoesel
The I6 is not dying at all. It is merely the non-turbo charged I6 that is being phased out. The gasonline and diesel turbo-charged inline sixes (like those found in your vehicles) will continue to be available, and in fact will still comprise a large volume of all BMW sales.
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I still feel bad about that, since the normally aspirated inline six is a joy to behold, and has many compelling characteristics.
The way BMW is heading, which seems to be driven by fuel economy, is to let turbo I6 engines take over for NA V8s, and let turbo I4 engines take over for the NA I6. Obviously, one can find many reasons that the NA V8 and I6 engines might be preferable (I sure can in the I6 versus I4 case). It's little consolation that there's still a turbo I6 when the real problem is that a turbo I4 is going to eat the NA I6's lunch.