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Futuro was unveiled at the Cologne Show in September 1980, a show that saw the debut of the Honda CX500 Turbo, the Suzuki Katana and the first Yamaha V-twins.
Naturally, these "real-world" machines overshadowed BMW's dream bike built around the old flat-twin engine.
But the Futuro was worthy of better things, and the K1, launched eight years later by BMW, was obviously indebted to it on both the aesthetic and the technical fronts. Of course, the K1 had outgrown the turbo technologies that were all the rage when the Futuro was developed, but it represented, a high point in turbo development that has rarely been equaled
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