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BMW has gone back and forth on the name several times since our Georg Kacher reported more than three years ago that the 3 Series coupe would be replaced with the 4 Series. How could BMW give up on the M3 name? M4 sounds too much like a British motorway.
There’s precedent, though, in the form of the 6 Series coupes slotted between the 5 and 7 Series with which it shares components, and the 8 Series, the Bavarian Mercedes SL. Then there is Audi, which delineates the A4 coupe from the sedan by calling it the A5. Never underestimate any German automaker’s preponderance for mimicking a competitor. Finally, there’s the matter of an upcoming 4 Series Gran Coupe in the form of a smaller version of the 6 Series Gran Coupe.
With the outgoing 3 coupe, BMW already had emphasized the two-door’s more spectacular proportions by making it longer and lower than its corresponding sedan. BMW’s press kit breathlessly describes the length, the low silhouette and the width of the new 4 Series. Suddenly, it’s 1957 all over again.
The 4 makes its debut at the North American International Auto Show – that’s Detroit, in January. Its wheelbase is 110.6 inches, or two inches longer than the suddenly stubby-looking 3 Series coupe. BMW has added 1.8 inches to the front track, for 60.8 inches, and 3.1 inches to the rear, for 62.7. It’s 71.9 inches wide overall, 1.7 inches more than the 3 Coupe, and 0.6 inches lower, at 53.6. Overall length is 182.7 inches, still compact next to many other sport coupes out there (we’re looking at you, Mustang, Camaro, Challenger). BMW’s self-description of the 4 Series reads like a Biblical chapter describing the second coming of the 2002, though with that car’s Teutonic flavor replaced with tasteful dollops of satin finish chrome, and with leather from the world’s most supple cows.
“The BMW Coupe is surrounded by a halo of fascination,” it begins, and it might as well end there, though it doesn’t. The “classy” (BMW’s word) satin finish chrome highlights such functional details as the air intakes and vents, door handles and sideview mirrors, proving that in a global, international economy, the right car company can turn what would be gauche on Detroit iron into glamour. Bayerische Motor Werken’s latest take on the iconic twin-kidney grille adds an optic fiber line off the hexagonal full-LED headlamps, to form a visual link between the inner, high-beam headlamp and the kidney.
It will be a striking vision with just the parking lights on, a crafty update on the BMW halo lamps that so many others have mimicked. There’s a large intake at the lower fascia, which its maker insists hints at the “extra air required by the powerful engines,” which will certainly include the turbo fours, a new inline six for the, gulp, M4 and very likely a diesel four even for the North American market. It has very pronounced front and rear wheel arches, the latter marking the widest point on the car, under which are 20-inch wheels. Two flanking vents on either side of the front fascia’s lower maw differ in thickness and are specifically for brake venting or oil cooling, and for the Air Curtain, which is the EfficientDynamics engineering feat that channels air around the outside of the front wheels, for better airflow and reduced fuel consumption.
Read, “trick aero.” See what you can do when you’re not blowing half your engineering budget on Formula 1 engines? The 4’s profile borrows the 3’s double-swage line, and of course, features BMW’s latest iteration of the Hoffmeister kink, just appearing there in all its glory to emphasize that long, low roofline. That large, satin chrome C-shaped accent behind the front wheels you’ve been wondering about (“does it do something, or is it just a fake air scoop?”) is called the Air Breather.
It works with the Air Curtain at the edges of the lower front fascia (remember? From a few paragraphs above?) for drag reduction around the front wheels. And you don’t need to be one second behind the first-place car, in the DRS zone, for it to work. In back, L-shaped taillamps taper toward the center and will look familiar to devotees of all BMW’s latest models. The rear bumper features another piece of satin-finish trim, in aluminum.
Then there’s the interior. What would a new BMW be without an interior? Except that this is no black-on-black Bauhaus interior hearkening back to the Bavarians’ glory days of the early ‘70s. Here’s all you need to know about the new 4 Series’ interior: the cupholders are covered in leather. Yep. This, from a German automaker that as recently as the Gerhard Schroeder administration was loath to give American consumers cupholders of any substance at all. Please avoid using the leather cupholders for bottles of milk. That’s just too perverse. It’s certainly not kosher.
The show car is painted Liquid Metal Silver, and the interior is two-tone black and Schiaparelli Brown, consisting, BMW says, of “sustainably tanned leather.” Hand-braided leather trim elements run vertically down the seats. It’s all very appealing, a very modern sort of opulence, though it’s not the sort of thing that will make the average middle-class enthusiast think, “hey, this is a Bimmer I might actually afford.” We’ll have to wait to see how opulent more quotidian version look when the 4 Series goes on sale in 2013, some time after its official unveiling at the Detroit show January 14.
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Mit den ersten Bildern der Studie "Concept 4er Coupé" wird BMW auf der Detroit Auto Show 2013 einen Ausblick auf den Edel-3er geben, der als 4er Coupé im Frühjahr 2013 zu den Händlern rollt. Zu den Details: Das 4er Coupé hat 50 Millimeter mehr Radstand (2810 mm) als der 3er, die Spur wird vorne 45 Millimeter (1545 mm) und hinten 80 Millimeter breiter (1593 mm). Die Fahrzeugbreite wächst um 44 Millimeter auf 1826 Millimeter, die Dachlinie ist um 16 Millimeter auf 1362 Millimeter abgesenkt. Insgesamt wächst die Fahrzeuglänge auf 4,64 Meter und sorgt mit diesem Zahlenmix für dynamische Proportionen. Schrägere Scheiben, rahmenlose Fenster, schlanke Dachpfosten und eine coupéhafte Anmutung machen das 4er-Topmodell zu einer ausgesprochen eleganten Erscheinung.
Beim Concept 4er Coupé sorgen Voll-LED-Scheinwerfer für den BMW-typischen bösen Blick mit zwei Kreisen – die Leuchten fallen hier noch schmaler aus als beim 3er. Ein Lichtleiter vom inneren Scheinwerfer zur BMW-Niere verbindet beide Elemente und lässt die Niere noch breiter wirken. Sie ist wegen der Aerodynamik geschlossen, soll aber mit dem Wechsel zwischen hellen und dunklen Flächen wie offen wirken. Überhaupt arbeitet BMW viel mit optischen Kniffen, um den 4er vom 3er abzuheben und ihn edler wirken zu lassen. Die Frontschürze fällt mächtig aus und schafft die Verbindung zu den weit ausgestellten Scheinwerfern und deren Geometrie. Die Seitenansicht wird von zahlreichen Linien und der schmalen Fensterline geprägt. Alles andere als schmal fallen die breiten Reifen aus, die bei der Studie auf 20-Zoll-Felgen im Vielspeichendesign gezogen sind.
Markantes Element der Heckpartie ist der hintere Stoßfänger. Ein Zierteil aus satiniertem Aluminium schließt die Heckpartie zur Straße hin ab. Die BMW-typischen L-förmigen Leuchten unterstreichen die Breite des knackigen Abgangs zusätzlich und sollen dank neuer Technik "noch dreidimensionaler" wirken als bei anderen BMW-Modellen. Auch innen zeigt die Studie, was machbar wäre: Leder mit Ziernähten satt, offenporiges Holz, ein Dachhimmel in weichem Velours. Selbst die Becherhalter sind in Leder gekleidet. Dabei bleibt das Design BMW-typisch, das Cockpit umschließt den Fahrer, hinten sitzen die Passagiere in schmalen Einzelsitzen wie in einem Kokon.
BMW : une Série 4 Gran Coupé pour la fin 2013 ?
Par Simon Potée-Gallini
Publié le Jeudi 24 Mai 2012 à 16h15
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Après la Série 6 Gran Coupé, BMW devrait à nouveau ressortir cette appellation pour sa future Série 4. Esthétiquement très proche de la Série 3, elle débarquerait à la fin de l'année prochaine.
L'Audi A5 Sportback et la future Mercedes CLA ont du souci à se faire. Selon AutoExpress, BMW aurait l'intention de commercialiser d'ici la fin de l'année 2013 sa Série 4 Gran Coupé.
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