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BMW

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...

 M41 was a straight-4

Straight-4

The inline-four engine or straight-four engine is an internal combustion engine with all four cylinders mounted in a straight line, or plane along the crankcase. The single bank of cylinders may be oriented in either a vertical or an inclined plane with all the pistons driving a common crankshaft....

 Diesel engine

Diesel engine

A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition to burn the fuel, which is injected into the combustion chamber...

 produced from 1994 through 2000.

Models

Engine	Displacement	Power	Torque	Redline	Year
M41D17	1.7 L (1665 cc/101 in³)	66 kW (90 hp) @ 4400	190 N·m (140 ft·lbf) @ 2000	4800	1994-2000

Applications:

• 1994-2000 E36
  BMW E36
  The BMW E36 is the third generation of the 3 Series compact executive cars produced by BMW. It was introduced in late 1990 for Europe and in late 1991 for US and Canada. It was the successor to the E30 3 Series and was eventually replaced by the E90 3 Series in 2005, though E36 coupes were still...
  
   318tds

M41D17

With the M41 engine the first four cylinder diesel engine was introduced by BMW.

Then engine derived from the M51D25

BMW M51

The BMW M51 is a straight-6 Diesel engine produced from July 1991 through February 2000.The "td" stands for "turbodiesel" while "tds" refers to "intercooled turbodiesel".Applications:* 1991-1996 E36 325td * 1996-1998 E36 325td...

engine and shared 86% of the components, resulting in only 14% being newly developed.

This engine became available in several models of the E36 model series

• 4 door sedan
• 5 door touring
• 3 door compact

Fuel consumption is around 6,5 l/100km in combined use (EUR) in the 318tds 4 door sedan version.