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BMW M3 engine shown

By Ben Barry Motor Industry 23 March 2007 01:18 BMW has revealed detailed specs on the all-new 4.0-litre V8 that’s soon to be slotted into the all-new M3. Power is confirmed at 420bhp with 295lb ft peak torque available from 3000 to 7000rpm. The engine – made at the same foundry as the BMW Sauber F1 team’s V8 and derived from the same architecture as the M5 and M6 V10 – looks set to dispel any fears M purists may have had that the M3 would be transformed into a nose heavy, slow revving behemoth.

Putting the Volvo S60 Polestar Concept through its paces

Unfortunately, the Volvo S60 Polestar Concept will not be coming to a dealership near you anytime soon. It’s purely an experiment to determine if the public would be interested in 508-hp, racing-bred Volvos. Chris Harris, of Chris Harris on Cars, took a deeper look at the car on a snowy racetrack in Europe and even brought a Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG for some perspective.

One Lap of the Web: Semi-truck drifting, quintessential British cars and Jay Leno's Garage

We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there's more out there than we'd ever be able to cover, here's our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about. -- When you think of Gymkhana, you normally just think of Ken Block ripping up streets with a Ford Fiesta.