Could Mercedes Use Engines Supplied by Its Biggest Rival?! Talks are underway … Autocar

Mercedes-Benz is in Advanced Talks About Potentially Using BMW’s Four-Cylinder Petrol Engines for a wide range of future cars, as part of a radical results kets ice strateg Slower-That-Expected Take-up of Its EVS.

A Mercedes Source has told autocar the two firms are alredy at high level of planning and negotiations, and an announsement on with it will go ahead expected before the End of the year. Autocar has approached bmw for comment.

The potential tie-up-First Uncovered by Germany’s Manager Magazin-would have providing a new generation of petrol engines for use in MODELS MODELS MODELS MODELS MODELS MODELS RANGING from the GLB, C-Class, E-Class and GLC to the Upcoming ‘Little G’.

The agrement between the rival companies is being framed as a “Strategic step to cut development costs”.

For Mercedes, it would secure a Euro 7-Compliant Engine Supply-Crucial to the Continuation of ice Models-While Helping It to Expand Plug-in Hybrid Offerings with Furious Investment Inn Four-cylinder engine development.

The move comes as mergedes phase in its new turboocked 1.5-litre four-cylinder m252 engine, develop in-house in germany but produced in china by hum Renault.

Alredy offered in the new class, the m252 engine is offered with three outputs-136bhp, 163bhp and 190bhp-and combined with a an eight-spelutch automatic Gearbox Housing A. Motor.

However, Insiders note that while the m252 is well suited to mild-hybrid applications, it isnless for currently enginered for phev or range-exteder use-a gap that a bmw-s Cold potentially fill.

Said engine is rumoured to be a turbocharged 2.0-litre derivative of the four-cylinder B48 Engine, which is used in almost every current bmw and mini model line.

Likely to be produced at a factory in Steyr, Austria, The B48 is Claimed to Offer Greater Scope Than The M252, as it’s packaged for long longitudinal and transverse layouts, more Flexibility across its bot its compact and mid-sized models.

The proposed partnershipwal also extend to global production hubs, include a potential shared engine plant in the US to Sidestep Rising Import Tariffs.

Should the deal go ahead, it would mark a history first: two Germany’s luxury car makers sharing engines and potentially even even even gearboxes in the longer term.