The BMW N20 engine is a different motor for different people. For some, it's an engine that represents the start of the downsizing era for BMW, and one that can have catastrophic and expensive engine ...

Anyone who recalls the 2017 BMW class action lawsuit over timing chain problems will be familiar with the BMW N20 engine.

More power, greater torque, reduced fuel consumption, lower tailpipe emissions and less weight--but better? Before driving the BMW X1 xDrive28i, the first model to feature the German carmaker's new ...

Clearly Fred Su, the owner of Evolution Racewerks, knew something I didn't when he declined to ride shotgun during my test drive of his modified 328i. "Motion sickness," he claimed, but there was more ...

A subsidiary of BMW’s China JV partner Brilliance has started local assembly of BMW’s N20 4-cylinder turbocharged engines. Mianyang Xinchen Engine Machinery Company has begun assembly of the N20 ...

It might seem ironic that water pumps can potentially cause fires under the hoods of hundreds of thousands of BMWs until you learn that the water pumps themselves aren’t actually causing the fires. On ...

Michal studies Automotive Journalism at Coventry University in the UK, and has been writing for CarBuzz since March 2025. He was nominated for student culture piece of the year recently and has been ...