Here's Your First Look At The BMW 8-Series Concept
It looks like the lid has been blown on the BMW 8-series concept before it was due to be officially revealed tomorrow.
The new flagship coupe is due in 2018, coming nearly 20 years after its predecessor was cancelled. BMW was supposed to be revealing a production preview model tomorrow at annual classic and vintage car festival Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. However these images have emerged which seem to show the concept model a day early.
Though not the clearest nor largest pictures we’ve ever seen, they do nevertheless reveal some of the concept’s styling details.
The 7 Series-based coupe is clearly a two-door car, although BMW has recently been producing four-door coupes under the ‘Gran Coupe’ name. Some of the angular styling around the front is classic BMW concept car fare, and may well be softened a little to match the corporate face of the 2, 4, and 6 Series.
A rather grainy rear image shows off hockey-stick tail lights and almost a duck-tail element to the boot lid, which hints that it may hide a retractable spoiler like the Audi A7 Sportback and Porsche Panamera.
More details will doubtless emerge about power options, models and the latest gizmos tomorrow. Bearing in mind that BMW has already trademarked the M8 name, it seems that we can finally expect a properly hot 8-series.
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M8 this M8 will be gr8 and I r8 it 8/8
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no pop-up headlights? :(
No, because aero and pedestrian safety… been gone for a long time.
It looks like an ugly maserati in the front
Well, I have to say, it looks really awesome! I like how smooth the design is, I loved 6 Coupe, but you cant deny it kinda looks heavy, this 8 Concept seems to have much more finesse to it.
If you have ever seen a spyshots of it you can clearly tell that the nose is way too agressive to be real.
Wasn’t too keen on the gaping nostrils, so toned them down a bit, more inline with the original 8-Series’ slender snout
I prefer your version !
I think it looks a bit like an evo 10 at the front
Naah… big grills might not be better but on a bimmer? I think the bigger one looks better.
I reckon the production version would be somewhere in between these two
Cars keep getting uglier and uglier, but I kinda like this..
I hope they don’t keep the comically large kidney grilles. It makes the vehicle look like a buck-toothed Maserati
Can Audi finaly make competitor to this one? They have A5 coupe that is like BMW 4 series and Mercedes C Coupe, but they dont have the S Class Coupe or 7/8 Series Coupe. Would be cool if they made A9 or just Coupe from A7 Sportback..
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