BMW has revealed its first ever collaboration with Pininfarina, the Italian car design firm and coachbuilder, at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este 2013, named the BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coupe.
Featuring a long wheelbase with short overhangs, the well-proportioned four-seater Coupe sits on five-spoke 21-inch alloy wheels and wears the company’s trademark ‘shark nose’ thanks to its imposing matte sheen aluminium kidney grilles, twin-circular LED headlights and chrome-trimmed one-piece air intake. The sculpted flanks stem from outlets cuts into the fenders leading up to a high shoulder line and short tail end with slender light units and twin trapezoidal tailpipes sunk into the bumper apron.
Moving inside, the ergonomic cabin has been treated to black and Tobacco Brown Foglizzo leather upholstery, 48,000-year-old kauri wood sourced from New Zealand, a Principe di Galles wool roofliner with white LED illumination and soft deep-pile carpet.
Under the hood of this pillarless Coupe lies a twelve-cylinder powerplant, which only serves to reinforce our wishes that BMW puts it into production as a replacement for the much-missed 8 Series.
[Source: BMW]