BMW's 'Competition Package' amps up M5, M6

An extra 15 horsepower may not sound like much, especially when it is added onto the output of a V-8 engine that is already kicking out 560 horsepower.

But when you're racing -- or just having fun -- every little bit counts. So BMW is adding a "Competition Package" to its M5 and M6 performance cars.

The extra power should be enough to give them a split-second -- 0.1 second, to be precise -- advantage in acceleration from a standstill. It's impressive that BMW found any way left to further enhance one of the industry's more amazing power plants, the 4.4-liter turbocharged V-8 in the M5 and M6.

To match that power, the M5 and M6 alo get better cornering and a special Competition Package tune to the differential to improve traction.

Just so other owners will know you ordered the package, it comes with a slightly different look. It includes unique 20-inch M light-alloy wheels. The sport exhaust system has quad tailpipes finished in Black Chrome. The car both looks different and sounds different.

Source: USAToday