BMW debuts its new M8 Gran Coupe

Munich - BMW showed off its Concept M8 Gran Coupe at the Geneva motor show. 

Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice President BMW Group Design, said: "The BMW 8 Series will take over as the new flagship model of the BMW line-up and, as such, combines unsurpassed sportiness and elegance.

"The BMW Concept M8 Gran Coupe offers a look ahead to the most exotic and alluring variant of the new BMW 8 Series."

The striking exterior of the Concept M8 Gran Coupe combines, says the automaker, "the core values of BMW M with elegance and luxury to create a new and captivating form, and reveals a new and exciting facet of BMW M".

The new model sees the BMW Group looking ahead to the 8 Series Gran Coupe and M8 Gran Coupe, which will be presented during the course of 2019.