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So here's a new source corroborating the bore and stroke, and since they had access to the engineers it certainly lends a lot of credibility. I just wish we could get a direct quote from a BMW source talking about the block and going into specifics about the bore center dimensions and so forth and explaining why they made the decisions they did. It's too bad the author didn't ask about that - I don't think it has occurred to journalists that the new bore size means an entirely new I6 architecture, which is of course huge news, so they aren't digging for details.
I saw this quote though:
"...it had to be the inline six because we could use the existing infrastructure in the plant."
That was very insightful and goes along with my theories.
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