2014 BMW 4 Series Coupe

Goodbye 3 Series Coupe, Hello 4 Series 
By Imthishan Giado

2014 BMW 4 Series

Say hello to the ‘all-new’ 4 Series Coupe. If you think it looks a bit familiar, you would be right; this is the 3 Series in coupe form, following BMW’s new policy of even numbers for coupes, odd numbers for saloons.

2014 BMW 4 Series

If it looks meaner, longer, lower and wider than the older car, that’s because it is. Time makes everything just a little bit fatter, and the new 4-series is an inch longer, a sixth of an inch shorter , 1.7 inches wider, and with a two-inch longer wheelbase. This is not to say that it actually weighs more. With extensive lightweight materials throughout the 4 Series can be up 45kg lighter than the old car.

2014 BMW 4 Series

Like the other cars in BMW’s even range, this car is one mean-looking thing with a furrowed brow for a front face and fat haunches that emphasises the rear-wheel drive nature of these vehicles. As a last remnant of the Bangle era of bones-under-stretched metal design the flanks have a double-swage line shot through the door handles. Newflash to BMW: everyone does it. Even staid old Mercedes does it now. If everyone has ‘swage lines’, nobody stands out.

Three trims will be available at launch. Luxury is meant to be the elegant one of the bunch, Sport is the car you see in this pictures and a further, more aggressive M-Sport version will also be available with wheels that ape the top dog M4, on its way soon. Looking inside, the interior is very much a shrunken down 6-Series interior with the same sweeping centre console and its peculiar lop-sided spar.

Engine choices in the 4 Series follow the saloon, so you can expect a 428i 240bhp 2.0-litre turbocharged four cylinder which will be blindingly quick. And then for something even more blinding, like blot out the sun blinding – look for the 435i, a 3.0-litre turbo six with 300bhp.

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