BMW has just taken the automotive world by surprise with the all-new BMW Concept 4 Series. The new concept previews the next year’s BMW 4 Series Coupe and is one of the most daring designs we’ve seen in a while. Although it’s only a concept, BMW says the BMW Concept 4 Series is 85 per cent representative of what the production-ready 4 Series will look like.
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The most notable aspect of the Concept 4 is fairly obvious: the grille. The oversized iconic kidney grille takes things to a new level and it now fits the entire lineup of new enlarged grilles – from the X7 to the 7 Series.
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According to BMW’s press release, these new monster vertically-opposed grilles harken back to cars like the original BMW 328.
Surrounding the massive nose of the Concept 4 are new headlights, which are much slimmer and more sharply styled than those of the outgoing 4 Series. They feature a unique design and don’t sport traditional headlight covers.
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Out back, the taillights each house a single fiber-optic element that creates the now-class L-shaped design, featuring a “heartbeat” graphic. It also gets some vertical vents and a large rear diffuser, which both add some sportiness to the back end of the car.
The wheels are 21-inches and act as a unique take on a traditional five-spoke design. The front of the wheel features heavily polished five “open” spokes, while another sort of five-spoke design sits further back with a textured effect.
Since this is a concept, BMW took some liberties specific to a one-off. Take the side mirrors, for example. They are razor thin, with aluminum on the lower portion.
More interestingly is the fact that the BMW Concept 4 Series hints at what’s to come from the BMW i Division -specifically the BMW i4 in 2021. The new EV will feature a similar design.
Well BMW designers new job; Ruin BMW. Are u f… serious, how can some design a good looking car and then suddenly f… up the grille. Think that they only focus on the chinese marked now, which is extremely sad.
yep really sad indeed
did you see the Merc EQS concept ? Makes things even sadder…
meanwhile BMW….
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I think i’m gonna puke.
Turk?
I think the placement of the number plate will dictate the size of the grill, probably causing it to be shortened by half. Hopefully not!
They’ll stick it in the middle of the grille like they do with Audis, making it look shitter than it already does.
I can’t believe I’m going to say this but I really like it, even the grill!! Trouble is the actual car wont look like this, 85% my rear!
Baroque, with the agressive looks of a Mordor Ork. Not a single bit of elegance or even traces of aesthetics. A colossal design fail. The kidney has been turned into beaver teeth on a mad dog. Holy sh* BMW has completely lost it. A flood of godawful SUVs, the heinous fwd 1 and now this. I’m lost for words. They deliberately try to change the design and ruin everything.
I’m guessing here, you don’t really like the design?
shows how much of nothing knowledge you have about design. u just one of those dicks who jump on immidiatly on the hate train without first looking and understand why the way it looks like this. idiot
And what is your design reputation? Before my M140i i had a e92 325i coupe. Quite an elegant thing still today. I also got an Alfa 147 instead of something more reliable or cheaper just because it looks very good from every angle. I’m a bit of a BMW fan because they always provide fun rwd sports cars with modern tech and modern decent and often elegant yet sporty designs. The 4 looks striking but that beaver toothed giant grille is just uneblieveably ugly.
Damn this car is stunning. The back is jaw dropping, it basically is a mini M8 – unheard of in 4 series price bracket. And the sides a chiseled and muscular as well. The grill … yeah, it could be a bit tighter. I am sure that for i4 the grill will be significantly different due to aero requirements. So I am a super happy camper right now waiting impatiently for BMW i4 as my next car :D
Pros – it looks good from the side
Cons – everything else
Lesson – when in doubt, don’t add another useless character line or crease
I’ve been looking at the front end for as long as I can, trying my absolute best to improve on the first impression. I can’t… it’s not happening. Over time it looks just as oafish and blundered as the first glimpse.
In fact, the more I look at the face of this elephant, the more I see the retarded “grin” underneath the caricature nostrils.
SAD….
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As I am contemplating my next BMW purchase, I see this and am complete turned off but the front grill. The only think that comes to mind is… “OPEN WIDE, time for your dentist appt”. I would not buy this AT ALL
First impression.. Angry birds!! It seems that bmw fired all their professional designers, hired a 10 year old kid from high school and asked him to design new 4 series.
Where is that delicacy, subtlesness and good taste overall which BMW was proud off?
BMW is having fun with the kidneys or lungs as they are now better known by.
I don’t blame them because it has worked on the LCI 7 series with fantastic increase in its sales since launch in April.
Cars with fat faces look silly but sell well.
This is a really good looking car. I do however miss the Hofmeister kink and with that terrible looking face, the car looks a little odd when viewed directly from the front. It looks like it ate too many cakes.
Seems rather late to introduce a concept vehicle for something that is due to be in production like ASAP?
Wont be in production until next Summer
The best thing about the front fascia is there is nowhere to mount the front plate.
The worst thing is that BMW will have to include a rhinoplasty option.
Why are they now copying Infiniti styling for the side glass?
I sat back and decided to look and study this car before I wrote anything.
After a few days, I am more than convinced that the word purposeful design has been erased in the dictionary at BMW.
How someone could come up with something like this is beyond any imagination, then, that someone would approve this absolutely hideous piece of unimaginative car is incredible.
If this is the way BMW is going to go with its cars then I am out, I am done.
I am not giving my money to BMW for a car or cars that will look like that.
No way in hell!
What specifically don’t you like about it? It looks like it follows a lot of modern trends in styling
The grille, to be presice. It is okay on the X7 but not on this car.
The side profile is just spot on, I can also forgive the back for almost being a cross between the Audi and the 8 series.
The grille is not only big for the car but also “unrefined.” I can see the grille being made in the 70s when the technology had not advanced to what we have currently, but not in today’s technological advancement.
Overall, the grille disgusts me (strong word for an inante object, I know, but that is how I am offended by one of my favourite car manufacturers).
I like the direction. It’s a concept. Back looks good, grill could be improved a bit to seem more integrated with the rest of the front. Sweeping side panel lines are nice. Bonnet is better than the raise in the m3, and reminds me a bit of the M1 bonnet years ago. Lights, hofmeister kink, wheels all look good and sharp. Looks like a modern evolution of design language from the 8 series, mixed with the 4 series and is smart approach. Overall really nice work. I like BMW tries to push things forward instead of being like some manufactures that have been lazily pushing out the same design for decades and going nowhere.
i4 Awesome really like those mirrors now thats something nice makes the care car come alive together with those large kidney grills and that sleek body look with cat eyes let’s me think of a panther. However the idea of an electric gran coupe should at least have an awesome v12 sound with an exhilarating pur the mirrors should be qled screens with 5x zoom and the car should be able to charge while driving and replenish at least 20% of its energy from it’s wheels back to its battery or develop an electrical alternator that charges it’s battery by an additional 30%. That would let the car travel upto 500 miles distance in eco mode. That would put the i4 at the top of all cars ever built