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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
They have slanted straight six’s. Bmw does sell models without a straight six but their flagship car is their BMW M4 GTS which placed pretty well in Nürburgring lap times considering the cars it bested. And the GTR is a V6 now, but the Skyline GTR, the original Godzilla, and the car that dominated in all types of motorsports, had a straight six, slightly slanted.
My point is you said a straight six puts weight at the end and makes for a poor performing car. I’m telling you that Lambos and Ferraris with V12’s have essentially two slant sixes glued together, thus by logical inference, you must believe they have even worse performance. Moreover, I named a number of cars with straight sixes that dominated in racing and are amazing handling cars.
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maybe an extra six cylinders makes up for the engines being long. sometimes double the engine size does add performance but i bet a v12 is better than an inline 12 as well. its not a logical inference youre making. its a cherry picked argument. inline motors are just about as heavy and long as you can make an engine that i can think of. when i was talking about straight sixes, i was comparing them to other sixes. you can compare them to 12 cylinders or 4 cylinders or whatever you want but they still make for a very long engine so...