最新报道称，宝马计划在2020年推出8系轿跑车。据宝马研发部门内部人士透露，目前车厂正在评估8系究竟是采用双门还是四门轿跑车布局。前者的竞争车型是奔驰S级轿跑车，可扩展出敞篷车版本。而如果觉得开发四门轿跑车，则该车显然比6系Gran Coupe更大，更豪华。无论采用何种车身布局，重生的8系都将采用最新技术，而且将很大程度上基于采用CLAR平台的最新款7系。该车将成为宝马最好车型，并将于2020年在公司位于德国丁格芬的工厂投产。宝马将于2018年最终决定8系是采用双门还是四门，车厂还将在同一年发布一款概念版车型。宝马在2013年古董车展上发布的Gran Lusso Coupe概念车进一步验证了宝马将推出豪华性超越7系车这一说法。目前还不清楚未来的旗舰车型是否与这款概念车有什么共同之处。

 

BMW 8 Series Coupe planned for 2020?

A new report indicates BMW has plans to resurrect the 8 Series for a new flagship model scheduled to arrive around the end of the decade.

 

According to insiders at BMW’s research and development center in Munich, the company is currently evaluating whether the 8 Series should have a two- or four-door coupe layout. The former is being envisioned as a direct adversary for the Mercedes S Class Coupe and could also spawn a cabriolet version. If the Bavarians will go for the four-door version, it will apparently be a bigger and more luxurious 6 Series Gran Coupe “nobler in appearance.”

 

Regardless of body style, the 8 Series revival will be a technological tour de force and will be largely based on the latest 7 Series which rides on the new CLAR platform. It will get the best BMW has to offer and it will be manufactured at the company’s factory in Dingolfing, Germany from 2020.

 

A decision concerning whether the high-end coupe will have two or four doors is expected by 2018 and chances are that year there’s going to be a concept to preview the production model.

 

The Gran Lusso Coupe concept unveiled back in 2013 at Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este was basically BMW’s way of saying the company can whip up something more luxurious than the 7 Series. It remains to be seen whether the future flagship model will have anything in common with the concept designed in collaboration with Pininfarina.