Remember that wild-looking four-door coupe BMW unveiled at this year’s Shanghai Motor Show? At the Tokyo Motor Show that’s going on this week, BMW executives confirmed that the company will indeed build the sloping sedan.
How emphatically did they confirm production plans? “This vehicle is only a concept study, but we have already decided that we will definitely build a four-door Gran Turismo, modeled on this concept,†said BMW board member Stefan Krause.
We pretty much expected the CS to be built, but it’s always nice to know it is officially in development.
Make no mistake, BMW rarely releases a concept car without a very good idea that it will actually build it one day. Sure, the wild-looking CS Concept introduced in Shanghai might be a fancier flight of design than usual, but there’s probably a good chance that BMW is planning a luxury four-door coupe to compete with the Maserati Quattroporte and, more importantly, the upcoming Porsche Panamera and Aston Martin Rapide.
For the design buffs out there, this looks like a marriage of the recent angle-crazy designs seen throughout the BMW lineup and the dash of elegance that has been noticeably absent as of late.
There’s no mention of an engine, but BMW has plenty of powerful options to choose from, like the V-10 in the BMW M5 or the V-12 in the 760. Of course, by the time this sees the light of day, perhaps BMW will have something entirely new to go under the hood.
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