2011 BMW M3 Facelift gets Start-Stop Tech and New Competition Package

The appellation facelift is in fact too abundant of a amplitude for the 2011 M3 ambit that comprises of the Coupe, Sedan and Convertible, as there are far beneath changes than on the afresh launched 2011 3-Series Coupe and Convertible models.

To sum up the upgrades, all three physique styles of the M3 accretion a new Auto Start Stop action that promises to abate boilerplate ammunition burning and CO2 levels, while the Coupe and Convertible get adapted LED appendage lights and the Coupe and Sedan an alternative Competition Package that sharpens handling.

In added detail, BMW the M3's 420-horsepower 4.0-liter high-revving V8 allowances from the accession of a start-stop action that switches off the engine if the car comes to a halt.

The Auto Start Stop arrangement is acclimated both in cars with accepted 6-speed chiral chiral and in affiliation with the M bifold clamp chiral with Drivelogic, authoritative the M3 the aboriginal non-hybrid Bimmer (ActiveHybrid X6 and ActiveHybrid 7) to use this technology in aggregate with an automatic chiral transmission.

BMW claims that that the start-stop arrangement reduces the boilerplate ammunition burning and CO2 levels of the BMW M3 by up to 8 per cent or 24 grams of CO2 per kilometre.

As an example, the Bavarian automaker said that both the M3 Coupe and Sedan with 7-speed M bifold clamp chiral now achieves an boilerplate ammunition burning on the EU analysis aeon of 11.2 lt/100km (21mpg US), and 12.4 lt/100km (19 mpg US) with the 6-speed chiral gearbox.

In the case of the BMW M3 Convertible, the boilerplate ammunition burning is bargain to 11.5 liters (20.4 mpg US) with the bifold clamp chiral and 12.7 litres (18.5 mpg US) with the 6-speed chiral transmission.

Furthermore, the German aggregation presented an alternative Competition Package and a new ambit of items from the Original BMW Accessories affairs for the Coupe and Sedan M3s.

The Competition Package adds a abeyance bargain by some 10mm and ablaze admixture auto in the admeasurement 9 x 19 inches at the foreground and Y-spoke architecture at the rear.

In addition, the ascendancy of the cyberbanking damper acclimation action EDC includes a Sport approach distinctively developed for the Competition Package. It is said to acclimatize the anatomy modifications by agency of map-based ascendancy and the active adherence ascendancy action DSC.

As for the new alternative items, the account includes a part of added things, a rear addle-brain and foreground accessory flaps in carbon