Auto Choice

Coupe Concept BMW 4 More Than A Numbers Game

Just as the six bridges the gap between fives and sevens, BMW is now also above the threesome a foursome. The beginning of next October makes a coupe, are now on a nice study a very specific outlook. But stick with it should not. (Photo: BMW)

Just as the six bridges the gap between fives and sevens, BMW is now also above the threesome a foursome. The beginning of next October makes a coupe, are now on a nice study a very specific outlook. But stick with it should not.

The threesome is dead, long live the four. Do not worry, in sedan and wagon in the middle class will not be shaken. Finally, BMW has sold in this segment since 1975, almost ten million cars. But at least the more pleasurable body variants bear a new name in the future. When in October 2013 the coupe goes into the next round, which is why the launch of the four series, more will follow in the fast spin. "We take an example on six," said a BMW spokesman and does so in addition to a four-cabrio alike also a Gran Coupe with four doors in prospect.

Here, the formal farewell to three is more than just a numbers game. The study of the promises at least four coupes, which has now been revealed to be quite specific outlook on the series model and celebrates its public debut in January at the Detroit Motor Show. The styling details come alone as the still standing upright, and even more stressed kidney, prominent headlamps and especially the so-called "AirBreathers" that influence the gills behind the front wheels in the wheel well, the flow positive.

And above all there are independent proportions. Not for nothing is the wheelbase by two inches in length, while the roof is two inches lower and the car with up to eight centimeters wider track also is nearly two inches in width. Clean and sinewy but drawn without a superfluous line, the foursome seems so incredibly fast even when standing still.

M4 as a possible top model

He also maintains that promise, the engineers have only specifically in the technology building blocks of row of three. Driving dynamics refinements such as Active Steering with the rear axle out, a Verstellfahrwerk or the eight-speed automatic are therefore well placed as the option of all-wheel drive. The engines from the weaker variants of the Triad, however left in place on the sidelines. Where are the car with meager 116 or 136 hp as 316i or 316d, the quad starts befitting with potent units. Even the 320d as a preliminary base model comes to 136 kW/185 hp. For the 328i as vulnerable then gasoline are already 180 kW/245 hp in the list, and with the 225 kW/306 hp 335i, its easy to wait for the M3 also been promised that it would probably be an M4.

While BMW follows the lines of the four molar. But at least in terms of pricing, the parallels to hear also. For where tuck in the Bayern vigorously in the upper class, they want to keep in tough competition with cars like the Audi A5 noticeable degree: With a target price of about 38,000 euros, the new quad coupe would therefore only about 500 euros more expensive than its predecessor in the line of three.