The Munich-based company is moving production of the eight-cylinder engines away from home, partly to Hams Hall in Great Britain and partly to Upper Austria, where they are assembled on 2,250 square meters in the existing assembly hall at the BMW Group plant in Steyr. They are the most powerful engines ever produced there: The eight-cylinder engines with up to 625 hp power the M models of the 8 series, which accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.2 seconds.
Fat for the world – BMW now builds its V8 engines in Upper Austria
