BMW 2002 turbo

The BMW 2002 turbo was the turbocharged top model of BMW's 02 series of mid-size two-door cars, introduced in the autumn of 1973 under the development code E20. Its four-cylinder M10 engine combined mechanical Kugelfischer petrol injection with an exhaust turbocharger and produced 170 PS (125 kW), which made it the first German series-production car with a turbocharger, ahead of the Porsche 911 Turbo. It appeared in the middle of the first oil crisis and was criticised at once for its fuel consumption and for the optional mirror-image turbo 2002 lettering on the front spoiler, which the press called war paint. A rear spoiler was part of the equipment. Between September 1973 and November 1974 BMW built 1,672 cars, available from the factory only in Polaris silver metallic and Chamonix white.