BMW's inline-six engines are loved among fans and have been around since the company's start, but only a select few can take the mantle as the most powerful.

That's a lot to ask of any engine, despite the B58 sharing a lot with the N55, its predecessor. There are also correlations between the BMW B58 and the Toyota 2JZ. Iconic is an overused term ...

At a glance there wasn’t a huge amount to write home about but the main change was a switch from the N55 engine to BMW’s then new modular unit, the B58. The new engine didn’t sound like it ...

It follows the N54 and N55 turbocharged inline-six engines in a lineage of legendary BMW straight-sixes, but unlike those, it's seen an ever-broader range of use in an ever-growing lineup of BMW ...