BMW Motorrad now presents this new, highly distinctive engine in detail. The heart of the new BMW R 18 is a completely newly developed 2-cylinder boxer engine – the “Big Boxer” – which has played a key role not just in the two BMW Motorrad prototypes – the Concept R 18 and the Concept R 18 /2 – but also in the custom bikes supported by BMW Motorrad, namely “The Departed” by ZON and “Birdcage” by Revival Cycles. The highest-capacity 2-cylinder boxer engine of all time. More than any other present-day BMW motorcycles before it, the Concept R 18 translated the essence of famous BMW Motorrad classics into the modern era, particularly in terms of form, while at the same time providing a glimpse of a volume-production motorcycle that would enrich the BMW Motorrad Heritage world in the near future: the BMW R 18. This was the message that accompanied the debut of the BMW Motorrad Concept R 18 at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in May 2019 – a striking revival of the BMW Motorrad brand core, namely the boxer engine. Woodcliff Lake, NJ – December 10, 2019… Motorcycling in its most authentic form: instinct over mind, technology not for its own sake but as a way of creating space for fantasy and powerful emotion rather than sober contemplation and objective calculation. This is a press release from BMW Motorrad… The “Big Boxer” is BMW’s highest-capacity two-cylinder boxer engine of all time.
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