GRR

BMW M8 Gran Coupe concept – Geneva 2018's prettiest concept?

06th March 2018
erin_baker_headshot.jpg Erin Baker

Ignore the laborious name: this is possibly the best looking car at Geneva this year, and highlights BMW’s next ultimate flagship model: the stonking M8.

bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031816.jpg

Those of us who hero-worshipped the original 8-Series were thrilled to bits when BMW announced its return with the concept shown at Goodwood Festival of Speed last summer, in the Stable Yard. It was an astonishing reimagining of the seminal coupe, and the M8 Gran Coupe displayed at Geneva exemplifies that design.

“The BMW Concept M8 Gran Coupe is designed to stir things up, to polarise”, said BMW’s vice president of design, Domagoj Dukec. The car is low and broad, with short overhangs at the rear. The air intakes are cast in carbonfibre-reinforced plastic (CFRP). 

bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031822.jpg
bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031814.jpg
bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031815.jpg
bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031802.jpg
bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031803.jpg
bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031804.jpg
bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031809.jpg
bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031810.jpg
bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031805.jpg
bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031812.jpg
bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031813.jpg
bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031820.jpg
bmw_m8_gran_coupe_goodwood_geneva_06031801.jpg

At the rear, there are flared wheel arches, a spoiler, black glass on the taillights, a prominent diffuser and two sets of M-badge twin exhausts.

The 8-Series Gran Coupe and this M-badged version will go on sale next year.

  • BMW

  • M8

  • Gran Coupe

  • Geneva 2018

  • bmw_m8_10111879.jpg

    News

    BMW announces more details of 600hp M8

  • bmw-m8-competition-gran-coupe-main-goodwood-09102019.jpg

    News

    The new M8 Competition Gran Coupé – the ultimate luxury M-machine

  • bmw-m8-competition-coupe-specifications-main-goodwood-08102019.jpg

    News

    Review: BMW M8 Competition Coupé and M8 Competition Convertible

BOOK NOW

2025 Motorsport tickets now on sale
Video Alt Text