BMW Concept M8 Gran Coupé.

The BMW Concept M8 Gran Coupe illustrates the meaning overdue the letter “M” at BMW in impressive style: it stands for “more”, increasingly of everything. As well as dynamic excellence, the BMW Concept M8 Gran Coupe embodies a new facet of luxury for the BMW trademark – ultra-sporty, extrovert and polarising.

“The BMW 8 Series will take over as the new flagship model of the BMW line-up and, as such, combines unsurpassed sportiness and elegance,” says Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice President BMW Group Design. Domagoj Dukec, Vice President Design BMW M and BMW i adds: “The BMW Concept M8 Gran Coupe is designed to stir things up, to polarise – it should move you emotionally. With this car we want to reach people who are looking for something special and who want to stand out from the crowd. Here, BMW M is unmistakably taking luxury out of its repletion zone.”

Low to the road and wholesale in stance, the eye-catching front end of the BMW Concept M8 Gran Coupe delivers an firsthand promise of an unrenowned performance experience.

The squatter of the new BMW 8 Series is evident in the new Concept’s front-end graphic. The contours of the radiator grille kidneys broaden as they descend towards the road, emphasising the car’s low centre of gravity. The headlights are positioned slightly higher than the kidneys and requite them the impression of sitting lower, which remoter emphasizes the car’s closeness to the asphalt. In contrast, the gold-coloured kidney surround brings an widow air of exclusivity to the front end. Within the headlights, the lighting technology familiar from the M8 GTE endurance racer provides a dynamic, hexagonal interpretation of BMW’s signature four-eyed front end, distilling elements of modern-day motor sport and luxurious quality into its inner details. Meanwhile, lusty air intakes in carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic (CFRP) guide the air to where it is required.

The Salève Vert paint finish, whose colour appears to transpiration from untried to greyish undecorous in variegated lights, creates a hugely constructive surface sonnet and teams up with the gold-coloured window graphic, hallmark M gills, gold-coloured brakes, wheel rims and M twin frazzle tailpipes to requite the car a head-turning, all-new look.

The striking exterior of the BMW Concept M8 Gran Coupe combines the cadre values of BMW M with elegance and luxury to create a new and captivating form, and reveals a new and heady facet of BMW M. The new model sees the BMW Group looking superiority to the BMW 8 Series Gran Coupe and BMW M8 Gran Coupe, which will be presented during the undertow of 2019 and round off the BMW 8 Series family.