BMW 8 Series Coupe: Sleeping Titan
BMW shot a cinematic video of the 8 Series Coupe on winding roads amongst rolling hills of Wales in the UK.
BMW seems to be enjoying it’s thinly veiled tease of the 8 Series Coupe since its announcement. Details and images have been released with remarkable regularity and they’ve even had journalists out to drive the pre-production models. In this video from the BMW Group YouTube channel, they give us the best preview of the 8 Series Coupe so far. The long winding roads of Wales are a superb proving ground, particularly for a GT car, and offer spectacular scenery for a driving video.
The 8 Series will replace the 6 Series in BMW’s lineup later in 2018. It’s a definite push upmarket, and the price will no doubt reflect that. However, it doesn’t come across as cynical. BMW seems to revel in building what could be their finest high-end luxury performance car yet.
Their new interpretation of the Series car that’s been out of production almost 20 years will have a range of body styles as well as a full-on M version. From what we’re given to understand, the M850i will likely get a naturally aspirated 4.4-liter V8 and at the base model end will be an inline-6. The pure M8 will use the stinkingly fast twin-turbo 4.4-liter V8 from the M5 and as well as the ZF eight-speed to feed the AWD system.
The M8 GTE race car also will also compete in the 24-hour race at Le Mans after a seven years absence, which will also be the 8 Series proper debut. According to BMW chief executive Harald Krüger, the new 8 Series is “the next model in the expansion of our luxury-car offering and will raise the benchmark for coupes in the segment.” That sounds to us like Porsche and Mercedes are going to have to raise their game again.
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