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The BMW M8 GTE Will Race at Le Mans Before the 8-Series Even Goes on Sale
– BMW is trying hard to keep the attention of car enthusiasts, even as it peddles ever plusher luxury sedans and tools up an expanded fleet of electrics. The all-new 8-series and the upcoming Z4 roadster show BMW exploring fresh styling directions while the driving character of the 2017 10Best Cars–winning M2/M240i reassures us that […]
BMW 8-Series Concept Dissected: Styling, Powertrain, Pricing, and More! – Feature
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BMW 8-Series Concept Dissected: Styling, Powertrain, Pricing, and More!
– When the E24 BMW 6-series expired with the ’80s, the company decided it was time to take its big coupe upmarket, replacing the 6 with an 8 based on the 7-series sedan. Built to impress, the 8-series was originally offered only with a V-12. It was also priced so high that many 6-series customers […]
BMW Concept 8-series: Eight Is Greater than Six
– The issue with giving cars numbers rather than names is highlighted by proliferating model count: Automakers are starting to run out of digits. Audi already applies every integer between 1 and 8 to at least one derivative, albeit prefixed by a variety of different letters. Now BMW faces another almost-full house, bringing the 8-series […]
BMW Teases New 8-series Coupe on Twitter; We Can’t Wait to See More
– If basketball players start out with hoop dreams, then BMW is having coupe dreams. The German automaker is planning to augment its coupe range upward in size and price with a resurrected 8-series model, and it has finally given us an official peek at what that two-door will look like. – Tweeted out via BMW Group’s […]
A new BMW 8-Series and many M models in the works, according to leaked codes
The folks at the BMW forum Bimmerpost have been busy. One of the members posted a document, presumably from the Bavarian automaker, that contains 177 pages of model names and codes that could indicate what BMW is planning on releasing in the near future. After digging through the single-spaced pages, he found a number of […]
