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Originally Posted by jprooney
Im almost sure the car was imported directly by WBM (not 100% sure), on the other side im 100% sure we do have 335is in Chile. And i agree with your last line they chose the highest output version of the N54, and that's the reason the award returned to N54 hands (previous years it was won by N55, before that it was won by N54)
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Sorry, I don't remember N55 winning this award at all, last year was also N54. I made a quick check now for the full list since 1999 from Wikipedia which states N54 for the 2.5 to 3.0 liter category six times in a row between 2007 to 2012. N54 also was the overall winner in all categories, engine of the year for 2007 and 2008 and in its inaugaration year 2007 it was also the best new engine. So, 6 class wins, 2 overall wins and 1 best new engine award makes a total of 9 awards for N54 which makes it by far the most awarded engine in this particular Award's history as well as the most awarded BMW engine during this period. Don't get me wrong, I am not comparing it to N55 or S65, it is just a simple fact. Edit: See additional info below:
Here a link, at the bottom you will see all winners in all years before 2012:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...ne_of_the_Year
By the way, I now see from other internet sources that they did not forget or bypassed 335is at all, it is mentioned in the list together with 1M and Z4 so the OP skipped that part while posting.
Interesting detail, in the 3.0 liter category the runner up was the new 3.0 liter Mdiesel engine in the M performance cars for 5 series and X5/X6. It came close but N54 still got more votes from the judges with 257 against 234 points collected. The others in this category was standart 3.0 liter BMW diesel (191 points), Porsche 2.7 liter from Boxster (186 points), now interesting again: the N55 (163 points) and sixth and last nominated engine is VW/Audi's V6 TDI (158 points)