RE: BMW M6 GT3 new images

RE: BMW M6 GT3 new images

Tuesday 28th July 2015

BMW M6 GT3 new images

BMW's big bad GT racer is another step closer to competing



This is just a hunch, but there's good reason to believe the Spa 24-hour victory for the BMW Z4 GT3 at the weekend was a popular one. It's such a good looking racing car, brimming with menace and intent, ready to pick a fight with anyone or anything within a few metres of its humongous spoiler. That it is based on something as limp as a Z4 makes the transformation all the more remarkable.

You wanna race? Really?
You wanna race? Really?
But this is the last season of the Z4 as BMW's current GT3 racer, the car being phased out in place of the M6 GT3. Actually taken at Spa over the weekend, these are the best pictures yet of the new car, and, well, look at it! Low, wide and, like the Z4, intensely aggressive, the M6 looks a fitting replacement. Plus it has side-exit exhausts, which always make racing cars cooler.

The M6 GT3 is likely to use a version of the 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 that powers the road car, with power marginally down on the road car at around 500hp. BMW has confirmed it will weigh less than 1,300kg, a huge saving over an M6 Coupe's 1,925kg.

The new BMW GT3 will be officially launched towards the end of this year ahead of a competitive debut in 2016. It promises to be a great season for GT racing, with the AMG GT3 replacing the SLS to go battling the M6. Hopefully one or two Cadillac ATS-V.Rs can feature as well. More details to follow!







   

[Images: S. Baldauf/SB-Medien]

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WCZ

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10,492 posts

193 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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why bother with camouflage?

Mermaid

21,492 posts

170 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Will be a monster, nice weight loss.

SturdyHSV

10,083 posts

166 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Article said:
as limp as a Z4
hehe

Mermaid said:
Will be a monster, nice weight loss.
But imagine the quality of the switchgear... Bound to be a crap car.

marcosgt

11,011 posts

175 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Looks like you could land Harriers on it!

TOO big..

M.

engine

2 posts

184 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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For us BMW lovers let's hope it kicks Butt only time will tell

soad

32,829 posts

175 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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WCZ said:
why bother with camouflage?
Adding weird camouflage probably does more to attract attention than to disperse it...

roadie

593 posts

261 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Why use something so large?

MrBarry123

6,025 posts

120 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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I wish manufacturer's produced an option to have the bodykit (maybe toned down a little to give more ground clearance etc.) added to a standard car.

daemon

35,724 posts

196 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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MrBarry123 said:
I wish manufacturer's produced an option to have the bodykit (maybe toned down a little to give more ground clearance etc.) added to a standard car.
Why, do you have an M6 to fit it to?

MrBarry123

6,025 posts

120 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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daemon said:
MrBarry123 said:
I wish manufacturer's produced an option to have the bodykit (maybe toned down a little to give more ground clearance etc.) added to a standard car.
Why, do you have an M6 to fit it to?
rolleyes

No, but I'd still like to see it on the road if they did.

And anyway, my point was meant to be more generic around all manufacturers offering a race-spec bodykit for their halo cars.

em177

3,127 posts

163 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Find it strange they are putting this much R&D into a race car when the road version is surely due a replacement soon?

Shaoxter

4,048 posts

123 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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article said:
BMW has confirmed it will weigh less than 1,300kg, a huge saving over an M6 Coupe's 1,925kg.
You have to kind of ask, what makes up the extra 625kg in the road car?

adama25

1 posts

104 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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gorgeous but huge. and how are they struggling with cooling with openings that big lol