This previous generation BMW was filmed doing a bit of drag racing at a legal event organized not long ago in Romania, and winning its class.
The thing is, it wasn’t a full-blown M car, but rather a normal 4 Series diesel. The 435d xDrive specification of the car tells us that its twin turbocharged 3.0-liter straight-six oil burning mill produced 308 HP (312 PS / 230 kW) and 465 lb-ft (630 Nm) of torque back when it was still new.
But why ‘produced’ and not ‘produces’? That’s because, according to the description of the short film, shared at the bottom of the page, this F32 has had its internals rearranged.
Now, we don’t know exactly what the owner did to it, but it apparently churns out no less than 467 HP (474 PS / 349 kW), and an even more impressive torque number than stock.
The output places it right between the CS and GTS versions of the old M4 Coupe, which came with 453 HP (460 PS / 338 kW) and 493 HP (500 PS / 368 kW) respectively, and 443 lb-ft (600 Nm) of torque each.
As it is quite normal for a fast diesel-powered vehicle, this one too is a smoky machine with the throttle pushed down. And it is also very quick, as it completed the quarter mile in just a little over 11 seconds, at 118 mph (almost 190 kph).
The driver gets most of the credit for that, and if you paid attention to the title and opening pic, then you know that we’re not talking about a man, but a young woman with a big passion for quick vehicles, and bees, apparently, because that’s what the custom license plate reads in Romanian: ‘little bee’.
Now head on down and watch the little bee in action.
After a series of unfortunate events put an end to Cristian's dream of entering a custom built & tuned old-school Dacia into a rally competition, he moved on to drive press cars and write for a living. He's worked for several automotive online journals and now he's back at autoevolution after his first tour in the mid-2000s. Full profile
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