The BMW Group took us by surprise today with the world premiere of the Concept Gran Coupe. The Bavarian automaker calls it a four-door coupe which is fancy marketing talk for a saloon with sportier body proportions.
The car looks extremely production ready and it could very well enter the market within a year or two offering BMW a competitor the Porsche Panamera, the next Mercedes-Benz CLS and the upcoming Audi A7, possibly with the 8-Series badge on the boot.
The five-meter long Gran Coupé, which is a follow up to BMW's much more aggressive and unique 2007 Concept CS, comes with a very low body height of just under 1,400mm making it up to 100mm flatter than the 5 Series or the 7 Series sedans.
BMW also talks about "striking dynamic proportions", "sporty, flat silhouette" and "sculptural shaping" that fuse "the exclusivity of a Gran Turismo with the fascination of a high-performance sports car".
We may be wrong, but all we see is a squatted 2010 5-Series / 7 Series with a Lamborghini-styled front bumper. Feel free to agree or disagree with us in the comments section below.
39 Comments:
I wonder if we are essentially seeing a 4 door "concept" of the upcoming 6 series 2 door coupe?
-Dallas
Looks more like an Audi-fied front bumper...but nevertheless...it is beautiful! Btw...minus two doors...are we seeing the final definition of the upcoming new 6-series coupe? Imo...it looks like it...
gorgeous!
Beautifull. I just wish they changed where the bonnet opens though maybe it would kill the design. If it could open around the lines of the kidney grill it would be even cleaner. This is still a great effort
Amazing car !
Classic BMW lines are back, NO MORE CHRIS BANGLE design PLEASE!!!
Wow, absolutely love the rear end, and the front is lovely as well.
Awasome !!!
Fantastic car!
Love the RS5 front end (don't see lambo). This is actually a pretty exciting looking bimmer.
I suppose this is BMW's way of apologizing for the 5 Series GT and X6.This car is something truly worthy of the propeller badge.
That looks amazing.
Can't believe it, BMW finally got the rear end rigtht!!
I'd swap the X6 for that, maybe.
I dont see how its lamborghini front end it looks alot like teh X6ms openings. Its probably not a production model but just a thinly veiled view of the next 6 series. Overall its a gorgeous car it looks more like a gorgeous sedan than a four door coupe though, as the only REAL 4 door coupe in my opinion is the Rapide as it is literally a DB9 with 4 doors, and this BMW isnt as dramatic as the CLS is but not as boring as the A7 either
pointless. just does not look like a coupe in the way that a vw passat cc or CLS does just looks like a 5 series.
Without any dout the most outstanding BMW design in over a decade possibly the last 15 years. They've managed to capture the essence of BMW's DNA and wrap it in a forward thinking design. This thing rocks with 4 doors so BMW Pleeese ditch the two door coupe format!!!!
stop calling these things coupes they are sport styled sedans based of coupe designs but not coupes the only four door coupe in existence is the mazda RX8 the rear doors are just access doors to the rear can't count the saturn ion no longer out this is just as bad as telling everyone that suv's are better family cars than minivans or station wagons a 4 door 2 door i dont think so but regardless a beautiful SEDAN
To the third anonymous'
Look, first off the front bumper does not have Audist styled bumper. Were do you come up with this nonsense. And to the guy who said the A7 is boring looking; stop smoking crack.A four door coupe is a metaphor so get over it, and of course we all know that this is a sedan/saloon, but in essence it has the appearance that of a coupe with four doors. Look, just like one blogger said at one point in time, we all can be badge hoers, but that doesn't mean we have to live in it.
Carguy123
to Carguy123
the four door coupe thing has gotten out of hand if you look at registrations and personal property tax forms for a car like the cls they actually list them as 4 door coupe not a metaphor but fact and and what motor to throw in this car V8, M-V10, V12, or dare i say it a bi-turbo V6 diesel
if they end up getting it into production i can't wait for m-division to sink their teeth into it...
lol wow smoking crack??? how classy certainly an Audi buyer. The A7 looks like an A6 hatchback and nothing more than that, while I dont smoke crack I am able to see and have seen several spy shots of the most boring coupe anyone has ever seen...., there is nothing special about it its roof line isnt low its windshield angle isnt anymore raked than the A6 its a hatchback A6 with a long front overhang...how creative...BORING!!!!
looks like a regular sedan to me
Looks like a stretched version of the current E92 coupe with 2 extra doors, restyled front lower bumper and rear lights. Nothing exciting, but excluding the new Z4 and the E92, is at least better than the current design garbage that BMW has been coming out with.
Been a loyal BMW customer for over 20 years...after Bungle resigned I assumed it would herald the return of BMW's characteristic design language. Instead we get the 5 series GT, the awkwardly portly X6, and a new 6 series with a front bumper with big goofy air dams lifted right off of the audi s5/rs5. Maybe its time to give Jag or MB a chance with my next purchase.
finally BMW returns to form with elegant and understated powerful lines that transmit a sense of classical beauty. It doesn't need to be terribly exciting to look at; it does however need to appeal to its customer base. It picks up where the last pre-Bangle 7-series left off. Welcome back.
--JORGE
looks like a 5 series with an audi a4/a5 front bumper.
Coupe My Ass.....
So, I guess every BMW sedan owner can now call their cars a 'Coupe'. This will really make it hard to find a 'real' coupe in the for sale ads.
@ Carguy 123...
I agreed that car manufacturers used such marketing designations to attract car buyers...
which in this case...the Gran Coupe is essentially a sedan...
With regards to my earlier comment... A few users (in this post) have commented that the "Gran Coupe" front bumper (limited to the air intake, not the kidney grills) has Audi design characteristics...
Audi cars (e.g. RS5) sport such bumper designs...
I suggest you research and define the car characteristics carefully before commenting aimlessly...
SuperStriking!
No matter WHAT its the best BMW sedan/fourdoor coupe EVER and it debuts at Beijing. A lot of interesting debuts over there so its time for me to head there.
super sexy!
I love the rear end design of this car, except maybe the choice of squared off exhausts. Just get rid of the Audi snout, the Lexus exhaust, and chrome door handles and we have a winner.
Author: that's totally an Audi front bumper sans RS5, Lambo no so much.
It looks great however, though I feel it has really stolenn design elements too unique to the Audi look. Well you know as the saying goes...
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Forget niches and calling a sedan a coupe. This awesome car should be the next 5 series and the Concept CS should be the next 7 series. BMW should drop killer 500HP V8 in the 5 and a 600HP V10 in the 7, not as options or an M, but as the standard engine. Drop all the electronics and get down to basics and BMW will make true 4-door sports cars.
"It doesn't need to be terribly exciting to look at; it does however need to appeal to its customer base. "
What a stupid comment. You must be frigid not to be excited by this design.
"Audi cars (e.g. RS5) sport such bumper designs...
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What a stupid comment ! Audi stole it from the Ferrari 430, I suppose ?
Haven't seen enough Ferrari F430's on the road to compare its front bumper to the Bimmer's...but I've seen many A4/A5's on the roads with this front bumper design. My point was, as a BMW fan, I would much prefer the company use a design that doesn't so closely mimic one used on common Audi's since the latter half of 2006.
Will the germans stop fooling around with niches? As other correspondents have noted, this is simply a nice 4 door sedan.
The world does not need 4 door coupés, coupé SUVs, corpulent inefficient hatchbacks, silly pastiches of classic cars, ugly unglamorous convertibles...
Idiots who make fun of bangle are idiots.
Bangle made the M3 you all fell in love with.
Guess which fucking one you morons.
Everybody's got the right to an opinion, i think. Bangle is a great designer. Props to him.
i like the exterior style! very clean and elegant! for the first time bmw offers straight-six with electric drive and high quality features and specs.
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