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An all-star design team combining the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, the Paris-based interior design firm PYR (Pierre-Yves Rochon), and the landscape architecture firm Raymond Jungles is creating Jade Signature, the newest condominium tower in the Jade series of luxury residences from the developer Fortune International. The 57-story project, to be located just north of Miami Beach, in Sunny Isles, is scheduled for completion by late 2016. Among the building’s notable design elements are enorm...

Filed under: Performance, BMW, Luxury Car and Driver asked the head of BMW M, Friedrich Nitschke, a few questions about what the go-fast division had in mind for the future, and was rewarded with some enlightening answers. The best news to purist ears is that Nitschke said customers don't want all-wheel drive on their M cars, so it's the rear wheels alone that will propel new product into the future. If you want both an M badge and four driven wheels, it's the X5 M, X6 M and M Performance models you're looking for in the catalog. "Mixed bag" is the phrase you're looking for regarding the other answers. Nitschke said that future M engines "at the core of their architecture" would "be closer to BMW AG engines" that are optimized for M cars, instead of following in the line of unique marvels like the V10 and naturally aspirated V8. They will keep the high redlines, however, with Nitschke saying "there is room beyond" the 7,000 rpm mark in BMW's current V8 turbos. Managing weight will keep the same priority for M that it is for every other brand, so electrically assisted power steering is coming, as is an "unconventional" materials mix. At the smaller end of the M scale, Nitschke described three-cylinder engines as "attractive," saying that the brand can produce more than 310 horsepower from a three-pot. As for the current M3, it's all gone. Nitschke said the company has about six more months of coupe and convertible production, but the units to come already have customers "on principle."BMW says current M3 sold out, no new AWD M models planned originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 06 May 2013 08:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments