Originally Posted by Adröck
BMW’s all-new 180-hp, 2.2-liter inline six—that will first appear on the next-generation 3 Series due by this time next year—is the likely candidate for the U.S. model, AutoWeek has learned.
Sounds to me like it
might just be a new engine with similar displacement to the current one.
BMW has in the past made different engines of similar displacement.