{"id":234,"date":"2025-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:01:05","slug":"toyota-gets-bmw-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micksgarageblog.org\/toyota-gets-bmw-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Gets BMW Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota have finally started to reap the benefits of the technical agreement they struck with BMW two years ago, with the announcement that their new Verso will be available with the BMW 1.6 litre engine.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bmw_toyota-120211111.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bmw_toyota-120211111.jpg\" height=\"149\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>The &#8216;mid to long term&#8217; agreement, which was signed in December 2011, outlines that both automotive giants would supply engines to each other, with Toyota getting access to BMW&#8217;s 1.6 and 2.0 litre diesel engines and BMW tapping into Toyota&#8217;s hybrid technology.<\/p>\n<div>The new Toyota Verso 1.6, which will go into production in January 2014 at Toyota\u2019s Turkey plant, is powered by a BMW turbo-diesel engine that will provide 110bhp. The engine in question (or to be exact, the Euro 5 emissions regulation-compliant unit) is also used in the BMW 1-series and Mk2 Mini.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2012\/09\/082013toyotaverso.jpg\" height=\"240\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"320\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">2014 Toyota Verso<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2012\/09\/082013toyotaverso.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Gerald Killman, who led the development of the BMW engine transplant, said that the biggest challenge that Toyota had in adapting the Austrian built engine was creating the &#8216;electronics interface&#8217; between the BMW engine the Toyota car. Toyota have also had to develop a brand new &#8216;start\/stop&#8217; system for the engine.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So what do BMW get from this collaboration. Well it&#8217;s not all give on their part, with a feasibilty study currently on-going for a jointly developed sports car platform, work on lightweight vehicle bodies and the huge undertaking of research on lithium-air batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Words by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/1\/+JohnSmythirl?rel=author\">John Smyth<\/a>, MicksGarage Marketing Guru!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota Gets BMW Engine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motoring-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Toyota Gets BMW Engine - The Filter Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/micksgarageblog.org\/toyota-gets-bmw-engine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toyota Gets BMW Engine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Toyota Gets BMW Engine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/micksgarageblog.org\/toyota-gets-bmw-engine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Filter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-12-31T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-22T08:01:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bmw_toyota-120211111.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The Filter Blog Team\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The Filter Blog Team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/micksgarageblog.org\\\/toyota-gets-bmw-engine\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/micksgarageblog.org\\\/toyota-gets-bmw-engine\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"The Filter Blog Team\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/micksgarageblog.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/80eb1fc10f37196ea99491bd7ba63323\"},\"headline\":\"Toyota Gets BMW Engine\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-31T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-22T08:01:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/micksgarageblog.org\\\/toyota-gets-bmw-engine\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":237,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/micksgarageblog.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/micksgarageblog.org\\\/toyota-gets-bmw-engine\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.bmwblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/bmw_toyota-120211111.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Motoring News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/micksgarageblog.org\\\/toyota-gets-bmw-engine\\\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2025\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/micksgarageblog.org\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/micksgarageblog.org\\\/toyota-gets-bmw-engine\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/micksgarageblog.org\\\/toyota-gets-bmw-engine\\\/\",\"name\":\"Toyota Gets BMW Engine - 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