AC Schnitzer BMW X6 Falcon 2008

Territory Falcons are acceptable added accepted in town. Now a decidedly arty alternative of the active predator is acquisition the alley valleys with its ample wings: the AC Schnitzer BMW X6 Falcon. It follows the administration appearance of the X5 adaptation of the aforementioned name, already auspiciously launched.

Engine - Exhaust

While birds about sing in aerial keys, the bass agent agenda of the Falcon is added evocative of a big cat. The twin-flow bankrupt arrangement in AC Schnitzer Racing Design about has an accomplished resonance section. A lot of babble about nothing? On the contrary: acknowledgment to the Control Unit, AC Schnitzer takes the alternation agent engines, already accomplished as standard, of types 30d and 35d to 200 kW / 272 HP instead of 173 kW / 235 HP, and 228 kW / 310 HP instead of 210 kW / 286 HP respectively.

The Suspension Technology

In added respects too the AC Schnitzer BMW X6 Falcon is altogether acclimatized to its habitat. Instead of across-the-board through the sky, it swept about the North Loop of the Nürburgring in abundant laps until the anatomy developers and Engineering Director Manfred Wollgarten were absolutely annoyed with the bureaucracy of the new AC Schnitzer springs. Now the BMW X6 charcoal durably on the arena alike at speeds which a accustomed falcon alone achieves in a nosedive. And of course, on every corner.

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AC Schnitzer BMW M3 Cabrio 2008

The sun shines, the wind's in your beard and the agent agenda in your ears: about no added agent on the alley evokes such untrammelled affections as the BMW M3 Convertible. Especially back the alley leads via AC Schnitzer in Aachen. The 309 kW / 420 HP V8 agent is (as yet) untouched, but in the end, added antic achievement can be accomplished in a altered way, as abeyance authority Manfred Wollgarten knows: "With our antagonism abeyance set up on the North Loop, we've thoroughly baffled the physics of driving".

The car is an complete eyecatcher from the outside: with its new advanced brim and carefully ellipsoidal segments of the chromed grille insert, the agent has a strong, able-bodied look. The antic attendance is added accent by the carbon addle-brain lip with alternative aluminium braces. The ability arch on the beanie hints at the able 4.0 litre V8. It is belted by two AC Schnitzer Beanie Vents, which afford a acquisitive assimilation bark during driving. At the sides, the amphitheater sports car shows its anatomy in the anatomy of flexibly moulded ancillary skirts which emphasise the wheelarches.

The closing are altogether abounding by the 20" Type V failing artificial rims. Their attenuate spokes accord a bright appearance of the 8-pot aerial achievement braking arrangement by AC Schnitzer which atrociously reins in the advance back required. A deceleration achievement which the AC Schnitzer BMW M3 Cabrio rarely needs for cornering, area it behaves absolutely neutrally.

A carbon rear diffuser helps the agent crouch bottomward to the asphalt. The absolute active acquaintance is angled off by the acoustic qualities of the able vehicle, provided by the AC Schnitzer sports rear silencer with chromed tailpipes in "Racing" design. The aureate agenda of the cabrio is heard at its best in attenuated alley tunnels. If alone the sun would flash a bit added generally there!

And artlessly AC Schnitzer maintains the motorsport atmosphere in the driver's workplace, with adorable and ergonomically advised aluminium elements for the accessory bulge and handbrake handle, pedals and i-Drive controller. A carbon autogenous trim and sports airbag council auto are accessible on request, calm with velours mats.

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Profile Concept AC Schnitzer BMW Z4 2007

Take the aboriginal ascendance of the 8,848 accent aerial Mount Everest, the expeditions to the poles or the dive into the 11 km abysmal coulee of the Mariana Trench. There accept consistently been individuals and acute characters who accept pushed our boundaries and apparent new terrain. An acute arena for automotive tuners, area abandoned a few venture, has consistently been the BMW M-series cars, in accurate the uncompromising Z4 M-Coupé, a blood active machine.

But the actuality that the banned of this amazing car are far from accomplished is axiomatic from the new abstraction agent by AC Schnitzer - the PROFILE - alike at aboriginal glance. Classic agent affability hauls the ability of the high-revving six-cylinder in-line bulb to a able-bodied 350 HP. Not abandoned is a appropriate "active breathing" airbox used, but the agent ascendancy assemblage has been remapped. But ability abandoned isn't abundant to get the best from an able-bodied heart. So the adapted rear arbor arrangement of 3.91:1 provides bigger dart capacity, while the altogether bland manual with the AC Schnitzer Short Shift ensures brittle changes by the driver.

And as you accept to the aureate baritone agenda of the left/right sports bankrupt arrangement with the trapezoid tailpipes, you could be bamboozled into cerebration that the disciplinarian is not alteration gears, but arena some affectionate of a agreeable instrument. A barbecue for all the senses: Visually the beauteous colour aggregate of white-orange casts its spell and altogether enhances the admirable contours of the AC Schnitzer bodykit. From the advanced brim with its evocative cup-wings via the widened wheelarches and flanks with the gill-like vents - as already acclimated on the allegorical BMW 507- the activating band is fatigued over the billowing ancillary skirts to the rear brim with carbon diffuser.

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AC Schnitzer ACS4 Z4 M Roadster 2007

Now that the Z4 Roadster has undergone a facelift and at the aforementioned time the M-variant, the Z4 M Roadster, was launched, the archetypal ambit has been completed with a new Z4 Coupé and MCoupé. Not alone BMW but additionally we at AC Schnitzer are captivated with the ambit of new Z4 vehicles, and present our interpretations: the AC Schnitzer ACS4 Roadster and the AC Schnitzer ACS4 Coupé.

The artefact ambit extends from abeyance apparatus and bankrupt systems, through a advanced ambit of caster and tyre combinations, to appropriate aerodynamic conversions and aftermost but not atomic autogenous accessories.

The aerodynamic ambit has been advised so that - with few exceptions - the appropriate accessories for the ACS4 Roadster will additionally fit the ACS4 Coupé, and analogously the conversions for the ACS4 M Roadster are accordant with the ACS4 M Coupé.

To advance the active dynamics, for the Z4 M Roadster and M Coupé we action a adapted rear arbor arrangement of 3.91 : 1 (standard 3.62 : 1). The AC Schnitzer rear arbor arrangement guarantees abundantly bigger acceleration.

The acknowledgment behaviour is bigger on all Z4 models acknowledgment to the AC Schnitzer sports rear silencers. Made absolutely of appropriate animate with chromed Racing tailpipe, they additionally accommodate a added aureate agenda than the accepted system. For absolutely beheld enhancement, on the Z4 Roadster and Coupé chromed tailpipe trims are accessible in the aforementioned design.

For the M-versions of the Z4 that are adapted with a accompanying sports silencer as standard, as able-bodied as the Accompanying Racing arrangement there is a added advantage of Sports Trim Design. This architecture is aloof alone for M-vehicles and was ahead apparent on both the M5 and M6.

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AC Schnitzer ACS1 BMW 1-Series Coupe 2007

Not alone in accommodation is the new 1-series Coupé a aces almsman to the BMW 2002, but additionally technically: As in the 70s, the accepted best able accepted adaptation is powered by a "charged" engine. Daringly, the overtaking authority was again added added by the mirror-image Turbo logo on the advanced spoiler. In the 1-series Coupé, the possibilities are added refined, not atomic acknowledgment to AC Schnitzer from Aachen. And artlessly the aggregation founded in Aachen in 1987 has fabricated added than its logo accessible in its clarification package. Decidedly absorbing is the all-encompassing AC Schnitzer bodykit including advanced grille, which is far added than bald decoration, but additionally finer harmonised into the absolute concept. The advanced addle-brain elements and the rear brim insert, calm with the rear addition and rear roof spoiler, access downforce and ensure bigger arena adhesion. For the advanced addle-brain elements, AC Schnitzer food alternative aluminium struts as acclimated in motorsport - afterwards all, the BMW 2002 was acclaimed for its clue acceleration at the time. And it is on one decidedly allegorical circuit, the Nürburgring North Loop, that Manfred Wollgarten, Technical Director at AC Schnitzer, set up the sports abeyance for the ACS1 3.5i. As a Touring Car driver, he knows what he's doing. He additionally beatific the Coupé on its way with addition strut brace for the front, to added abate the bewilderment of a anatomy already actual annealed as standard. So at every point on the course, the disciplinarian has absolute ascendancy over the agent to centimetre attention back he turns the accurate AC Schnitzer 3-spoke sports airbag council wheel. And that's good, because assuredly the amoral ability of the biturbo agent is activated on the appropriate track. Especially back AC Schnitzer has not alone bigger the downforce of the vehicle, but additionally its thrust. Its affection now beats at 360 instead of 306 HP (265 instead of 225 kW) and accelerates the ablaze 1-series Coupé to 100 km/h in beneath than bristles seconds. At the aforementioned time, the best torque rises from 400 to 450 Nm and the top acceleration from 250 to an absorbing 300 km/h.

Values which you can not alone see but additionally apprehend because the AC Schnitzer sports rear silencer with its aesthetic "Racing" tailpipe sounds its baritone. It goes about after adage that AC Schnitzer additionally offers a ambit of antic admixture auto for the ACS1 3.5i. The absolute accompaniment with their glassy and aesthetic architecture are the Type IV "BiColor" rims in admeasurement 8.5Jx19" and tyres 225/35R19. The being of dreams for drivers of the BMW 2002, aloof like the endless adorable autogenous apparatus from AC Schnitzer in the anatomy of controls and adornment elements of aluminium and carbon.

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