Which BMW Has the S85 V10 Engine? Full M5 and M6 Breakdown
Photo by Shooting Tyre on Unsplash There is only one BMW road car engine with ten cylinders. One. The S85. BMW built it between 2005 and 2010, fitted it to exactly four models, and then never made anything quite like it again. The engines that followed were turbocharged, smaller, and objectively faster in many situations. None of them sounds like this. If you are searching for an S85 engine for sale, trying to identify whether a car you are looking at has one, or just trying to understand what all the fuss is about, this guide covers the full picture. Which cars it went into, what makes it special, what goes wrong, and what to check before buying. What Is the BMW S85 Engine? The S85 is a 5.0-litre naturally aspirated V10 petrol engine. No turbochargers. No supercharger. Just ten cylinders, individual throttle bodies for each one, and an 8,250rpm redline that BMW arrived at partly by drawing on its experience building Formula One engines through the BMW Sauber F1 programme i...
