We just recently took a look back on 2017 and all of the great cars we drove this past year. And we drove a lot of great ones. My personal favorite was the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio but we also drove the brand-new BMW M5, the X3 M40i and many other great cars. So it was an exciting year. What’s even more exciting, though, is the promise of next year. There are many new BMW products, as well as other great cars, set to debut in 2018 and we’re looking forward to testing all of them. But which car are you most excited for in 2018?
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For BMW, the big news is likely the official launch of the BMW M5. While journalists and members of the media have driven it, customers have not and it will hit dealerships next year. So BMW fans will actually get a chance to drive the first ever all-wheel drive M5, which is exciting. It’s also the fastest accelerating BMW of all times, sprinting from 0-60 mph in as low as 3.2 seconds, thanks to its 600 hp 4.4 liter twin-turbo V8 and all-wheel drive.
There’s another Bavarian product that fans will be excited about and that’s the BMW X7. The brand’s first ever true three-row SUV will launch next year as well and be built in BMW’s Spartanburg, South Carolina plant. It’s a huge deal for BMW as it will add a new luxury flagship to its lineup as well as giving it an SUV to compete with the very successful Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class. It should debut 7 Series-levels of luxury and technology but actually probably even more, as the X7 is far newer. It will also feature Kidney Grilles large enough to inhale any sort of rodent to cross its path.
The upcoming third-gen BMW Z4 is also going to make its debut in 2018, which is due to excite fans. While the previous-generation Z4 didn’t light anyone’s hair on fire, this new one should. Based on a new rear-wheel drive chassis co-developed with Toyota, the next-gen Z4 should be a huge improvement over the previous car. It will also sport new tech and new powertrains, including an M Performance variant, dubbed Z4 M40i. That car will use BMW’s brilliant B58 3.0 liter turbocharged I6 engine, which should be exciting. The best part though is that it should look similar to the stunning Z4 Concept car BMW showed off this past summer.
But the car I think we’re all looking forward to this coming year is the upcoming BMW 8 Series. Judging from the gorgeous concept the summer, as well as the numerous spy photos we’ve seen, the second-generation 8 Series will be BMW’s best looking car in a very long time. The 8 Series will also bring about the first ever BMW M8, a car that fans have been begging for since 1989. Being that fans have been clamoring for a second-gen 8 Series since the first died off, this has to be the most hotly anticipated car of 2018.
Jip, without a doubt, the 8 series. There are many others tho, like the Z4 and even the X5 (I believe its design will surprise us). And, I’m guessing, the next 3 Series could be shown before the end of 2018. I’m also really curious about the X7!
They all look amazing!! This will be a big year ;)
Obviously the M2 Competition as I really wanna get one :O
X7. It is likely to be epic.
I’m looking forward to the Audi e-tron SUV, Jaguar I-Pace, and Porsche Mission E. After I bought my i3, electrics are what I look forward to in new cars anymore.
… and x5? Anyone?
3 series & 8 series are the ones that i would look forward to for next year.
3er will define whether the standard BMW sedans are going to remain ‘true’ driver’s cars or not and will also showcase how the BMW sedan designs gonna evolve. Current 5er and 7er are mediocre at best so the upcoming 3er should be making significant strides.
8 series is very important as it will showcase how sincere and committed BMW is to truly cracking the upper luxury segment. The latest 7er was not able to even break the sweat off its competition let alone sending it back to drawing board. However hard BMW is emphasizing on the fact that it wants to make deep inroads into luxury car segment, its efforts have been paltry at best.
Z4 may turn out to be damn good but it will always remain a niche product.
X5 can well and truly turn out to be the best car in its segment whenever it arrives and i have a sneaky feeling that it will look damn good as well.
X7 – I have already given up on it especially after recent almost revealed spy shots. I don’t see many people cross shopping the majestic and commanding LR RR or refined and stately GLS (although there is not much to it other than that) for this alien-ish looking thing. Even if it may turn out to be very competent, its design would be indigestible to many. But to give consolation to X7, its certainly more arresting than Urus.
Upcoming 1 series hatch – If 1 series sedan is anything to go by, It will be a meh looking thing. And given that how strongly Merc is working behind the curtain for upcoming A class, the new 1er may end up more than a notch or 2 below the A.
Overall, BMW did show the signs of revival in the form of X3 & M5 in year 2017 but, to me, those aren’t enough evidences to establish the fact that they are well and truly back to their A game.
People want their BMWs to drive and ‘FEEL’ like a true BMW, dear BMW…
HNY2018 !!!!
What a long winded episode of nonsense. Do you real think like this in real life?
atleast i have got my own imagination and don’t bother, unlike you, to bark on the comments that doesn’t get into head.
by the way, which part of my comment was not able to be processed by your puny little brain?
Good question, but I raise an even better question; Which part of your comment is actually a comment?
You just ramble on and on and on. You even end your wondering lunacy with a political note representative of the want of the”people”.
All this aside, I do agree with you that, the X5 may in the end be the best of all that is to come in 2018.
i stated my opinions about each of the BMW cars that are coming. My intent here was to give my perspective about the upcoming cars. Isn’t that what the editor of the article has done with this article. What is that part here which posed problem to you?
And in case you have just woken up from coma, the world over current BMWs are lamented for not being true driver’s cars. Heck, these days the journals are picking Genesis and Kia over BMW models. That’s why that last line is there.
What you have stated is not an opinion. It is rage inducing waffle intent on creating disorder, discontent and fury amongst the civil society. The editor has asked a simple question requiring a simple answer. Your response has not been simple but a highly complex indication of an acute mental abrasion not yet discovered by the scientists.
The reality is that BMW has last its appeal amongst hardcore drivers because it has moved to become a mass manufacturer of everyday cars. The irony is that it is now copying Kia- see the new X2.
I rather be in a coma than be faced with outrageous outbursts by those, like you, whose head is filled with mosquitoe droppings.
X2!
X4 and 6GC
G20 3 Series.
Are you related to Assad in Syria?