Photo: bmworldm on Instagram
OK, so we've known for a while the new 2021 BMW 4 Series was going to have a huge grille. Huge. Just... huge. "See the grille first and then the car" kind of huge. Or the "what's with the car on that grille" sort. Huge.
Once you get past the initial shock, though, you start to look past the grille and see the new coupe as a whole. And - what do you know? - there was actually a pretty nice car hiding behind that grille all this time. And I don't mean that you need to look beyond the front end to appreciate the 2021 4 Series, but that the whole package looks pretty cool even with those gigantic beaver teeth ready to chew on any log it might encounter on the road.
The Bavarians showed us the BMW 4 Concept last year for a reason, and that was to soften the blow of this reveal (well, the car is scheduled to launch tomorrow, but as it so often happens a kind soul decided to share some of the brochure pages early on Instagram - @bmworldm). You can't fault the strategy: imagine this was the first time you saw this grille. You would laugh, wouldn't you?
Pictured here is the top-of-the-line BMW 4 Series that money will be able to buy you once the new model becomes officially available. It's called the 440i xDrive, and from those numbers and letters we can tell it'll have a 3.0-liter straight-six turbocharged engine developing 374 hp and 369 lb-ft of torque (500 Nm). It'll send power to all four wheels via an eight-speed automatic transmission and with help from a 48v mild-hybrid system.
The model that'll actually make use of all the air coming through that grille, the M4, will follow later on at some point and bring up to 510 hp as well as another potential controversy: will it feature BMW's xDrive system (like the larger M5) or will it remain pure to the brand's rear-wheel-drive legacy? Either way, it'll definitely blow your socks off, so it doesn't really matter that much.
Looking back, I'm pretty proud of myself for managing to put together a few paragraphs that don't have any mention of that new grille. Believe me, it's tough, especially if you consider you can see it even when you look at the car from behind. Hell, you can see it even when you look at a Mercedes-Benz abandoned in the desert.
Stay tuned for more tomorrow.
The Bavarians showed us the BMW 4 Concept last year for a reason, and that was to soften the blow of this reveal (well, the car is scheduled to launch tomorrow, but as it so often happens a kind soul decided to share some of the brochure pages early on Instagram - @bmworldm). You can't fault the strategy: imagine this was the first time you saw this grille. You would laugh, wouldn't you?
Pictured here is the top-of-the-line BMW 4 Series that money will be able to buy you once the new model becomes officially available. It's called the 440i xDrive, and from those numbers and letters we can tell it'll have a 3.0-liter straight-six turbocharged engine developing 374 hp and 369 lb-ft of torque (500 Nm). It'll send power to all four wheels via an eight-speed automatic transmission and with help from a 48v mild-hybrid system.
The model that'll actually make use of all the air coming through that grille, the M4, will follow later on at some point and bring up to 510 hp as well as another potential controversy: will it feature BMW's xDrive system (like the larger M5) or will it remain pure to the brand's rear-wheel-drive legacy? Either way, it'll definitely blow your socks off, so it doesn't really matter that much.
Looking back, I'm pretty proud of myself for managing to put together a few paragraphs that don't have any mention of that new grille. Believe me, it's tough, especially if you consider you can see it even when you look at the car from behind. Hell, you can see it even when you look at a Mercedes-Benz abandoned in the desert.
Stay tuned for more tomorrow.
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