The BMW Speedtop Is Shockingly Expensive: Video

Though BMW is showcasing the Speedtop on the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este as an idea, a manufacturing model will comply with. The German luxurious automaker is already taking orders for the M8-based capturing brake and plans to construct 70 items. Bavaria’s beautiful two-door wagon partly exists as a result of overwhelming demand for final 12 months’s Skytop idea. Restricted to 50 items, the targa-style convertible attracted considerably extra curiosity than BMW might fulfill.

Lengthy bought out, the Skytop was priced at round €500,000. Unsurprisingly, BMW now expenses roughly the identical quantity for the wagon follow-up. Provided that the targa’s worth didn’t deter prosperous consumers, the brand new two-door wagon is more likely to be one other success. And these aren’t even the most costly new BMWs ever made. That title goes to the 3.0 CSL, a revival of the Batmobile primarily based on the M4 CSL. Worth? About €750,000. Solely 50 items have been produced, and BMW had no bother promoting them.

Nonetheless, asking Rolls-Royce cash for an M8 is shocking. In Germany, a completely loaded M8 Competitors Coupe with each possibility and an Particular person paint end prices lower than half, round €220,000. Then once more, the Speedtop options a wholly new physique. Apart from the dashboard, which it shares with the M8, it’s exhausting to inform that this is similar automotive beneath.

In response to insiders, the Speedtop was initially deliberate as a coupe. BMW finally determined a capturing brake can be extra compelling, and it’s protected to say they made the correct name. Approving it for manufacturing additionally softens the blow of understanding that the Concept Touring Coupe won’t ever be constructed. The Z4 M40i clown shoe revival will stay strictly a one-off.

BMW can justify the steep price ticket by promising exclusivity via the restricted manufacturing run. The Speedtop is a shocking automotive, in and out, ideally suited to collectors searching for a pure ICE expertise. It’s powered by M’s most potent V8 ever, with no hybrid help. Because the period of gas-only engines winds down, hybrids and EVs are taking up to satisfy ever-stricter emissions laws.

That €500,000 worth means that if BMW have been ever to construct one other true supercar, maybe a mid-engine coupe, it might price considerably extra. Whereas the Speedtop borrows a lot from the M8, a flagship efficiency mannequin can be a bespoke creation, sharing little with current vehicles. Fanatics nonetheless dream of a brand new M1, even when most of us might by no means afford one.

These particular, low-volume, coachbuilt tasks are a robust step in the correct course. Their success might lastly give decision-makers the arrogance to greenlight a correct BMW supercar.