welcome back everybody its Mark with exotic car play place again coming back
at you for more discussions around reliability and when we talk about
reliability and we're talking about BMWs there's lots to talk about of course and
firstly I want to say thanks everybody who returned a lot of positive comments
on my last video when I talked about reliable M cars and of course I
challenged some discussions that Doug deMuro had earlier on in a video just
before mine and so I thought I felt compelled to actually address some of
those things that that Doug had spoke about on the e60 m5 but either way with
all due respect Doug's a great reviewer and you know I certainly just wanted to
address some of the things that we were talking about but aside from that today
we have to ask the question is a BMW as reliable as a Toyota that is a question
here that a lot of people seem to have an issue with I know in a lot of video
responses that I have in the comments people really continually question BMWs
reliability and we talk about you know the the reliability of BMW vs. Toyota
versus Lexus and Honda and everybody says you know if you want reliability
you go to the Japanese cars so I have to make a point today and we're gonna talk
about one specific drivetrain that's coming up today and it's actually coming
up very soon and actually there's an engine right now that BMW is utilizing
in a lot of their cars and it's called the b58 engine so we talk about
vehicles at BMWs producing with engines like this the xDrive
40i so here we're talking about the x3 which I reviewed one here about a
couple of weeks ago this one utilizes the b-58 engine the m-40 I of course
which is a great new engine and if you've watched my videos you'll know
that that is an awesome engine to be 58 so not only is that the engine that
replaced the n54 and of course the n55 more recently but that's the engine that
is also coupled in the new Toyota Supra so the engine in this car here we have a
340 eye right here and this actually features the b-58 engine and what's
special about the b-58 well the b58 is the turbocharged single
turbocharged direct-injected inline six-cylinder engine that is used in all
of these different models like the 340 the like this the 440 of course the x3
the x3 40 M for Ti it's also in a whole host of other cars
like in the x5 that uses the 40 I it is utilized in a lot of their engines now
it's their new six cylinder turbocharged engine that replaced the problematic and
54 and of course ultimately the last one the n 55 those cars are gone now this
new one actually features some great new elements to it of course it runs more
boost it has a heat encapsulation system which ultimately reduces emissions on
startup and helps prevent wear on a cold start of course so it has that going for
it it has an improved engine that runs cleaner than previous models of course
and if ultimately whatever BMW owner likes to hear is it produces more power
of course so they've done a lot of work to try to improve the reliability on the
b-58 over the previous n55 and I think they've done that so the ultimate
question is how do you know they've done that well time will tell firstly so
these two are classic examples what do we have here we have a 340 I and we have
a 440 I this of course being the coupe that's the difference between a 3 and a
4 40 i the 440s of course have the 2 doors and the 3 40s of the 4 doors now
these both utilize the same b-58 engine slightly detuned from what is going in
the Supra is estimated to have closer to 400 horsepower while these
cars are down around 335 slightly detuned nonetheless same basic
infrastructure as far as engines go now these are some classic examples of some
cars that utilize the same drivetrain you have to realize I would personally
believe that these engines are going to have a significantly improved
reliability for what we saw in the previous generation like 335i's for
example like this other car over here here we have a 335 of course it's
got the dual exhaust and of course these cars here were awesome to drive but the
reliability wasn't entirely there so really the b-58 engine that is going
in the new Toyota Supra is the same engine that you get in the new version
of essentially this now of course this is the 335 this utilizes the n54 and
that was a problem for the most part for reliability lots of fun but not so
reliable so how do you know that they've fixed the reliability issues with the
new b-58 engine that BMWs producing well we don't know that and time will tell
you know maybe it's gonna take months possibly years to figure out whether
there is an inherent glitch in this engine or whether there's a chronic
problem in the b-58 engine are there issues we will see time will tell but
here's some food for thought now when you talk about reliability I constantly
get people commenting about Toyota and Lexus being the pinnacle of reliability
well did you realize this new b-58 engine that is produced by BMW is the
same engine that is actually going in to the new 2019 Toyota Supra
as well as the z3 of course BMW but that's no shocker so the big thing is
this is an engine going into a Toyota do you think Toyota would risk their
reputation by putting in a substandard engine into one of their cars especially
one of their classic cars the Supra has a moniker to it that is honestly it's
placed on a high pedestal the Supra is a car that's going to not just last the
first three or four years we all know that the Supra is already a legend
before it got started and because of that they do not want you think do you
think Toyota would risk having a weak engine that had problems galore do you
think they would risk that I'd have to believe that there's no chance that they
would risk that why would they Toyota's been around
long enough to know that reliability and Toyota and Lexus go hand in hand so they
in my mind would ensure that they've worked closely with BMW to ensure that
they have a drivetrain that is going to satisfy the reliability of your typical
Toyota but you can also hey here's another example here's a four-door but
it has a 440 designation but that's because this one is the Gran Coupe the
Gran Coupe there as you can see gives you the four doors of course but it
still carries the 440 moniker on that one
what a beautiful car I must say so thanks everybody for coming back to the
video I just want to share with you BMW quality can be in fact as reliable
as what you'd expect from Toyota and Lexus because this has to be in my mind
proof in the pudding so again I want to thanks the great folks down here at
Edmonton BMW through allowing me to check out some of the great new cars
here but thanks again everybody make sure you give me a thumbs up like share
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I'd love to talk to you in the next one see you soon guys bye bye