BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe

The entire cabin of the BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe has been retained from the 3-Series sedan, without many significant alterations carried out to the layout as well as features setlist.

The M-Sport steering wheel, as well as the TFT instrument console with its crisp display and fonts, makes it a familiar yet very lovable driver’s cockpit. The center portion of the dashboard looks quite broad and geometric, with a pop-up rectangular infotainment system at the top and a hexagonal console below it.

The center console is divided into two halves, with the upper one having trapezoidal AC vents and the lower one getting sleek panels of audio system buttons and climate control buttons stacked one over the other. The wraparound theme for the center transmission tunnel, which has the drive mode controller placed adjacent to the gear lever, makes the cabin look driver-centric.

While the BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe shares its entire list of comfort and convenience features as well as seating capacity with the 3-Series sedan, the sloping roofline in the former eats up some amount of headroom at the back.

The BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe, in this current iteration in which it is available, is actually based on the sixth-generation 3-Series sedan, which is explained by some amount of similarity between both the cars when viewed head-on.

At the front, the complete front fascia of the BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe resembles that of the 3-Series sedan, with the sleek and horizontally extended double kidney grille having rounded edges, chrome surrounds and vertical chrome slats. The headlamps on either sides are just attached to the outer edges of this combined grille, with the sleek unit incorporating double LED projectors with rounded daytime running LEDs surrounding them. BMW has tried to make the 4-Series Gran Coupe get some sportiness in the form of sharp and big housings for the fog lamps on the front bumper.

It is from the side, where the BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe tries to strike its own identity apart from the 3-Series sedan. This is also a four-door car, though the doors have a frameless design and the window frame along with the roof has a rounded sloping down theme to give it the much-needed coupe flavor. The sharp crease flowing through the doors, alloy wheels and rearview mirrors have been shared here with the 3-Series sedan.

From the back, the BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe looks completely different from the 3-Series sedan, with a different set of tail lamp with LED inserts and rounded design on the outer boundaries. The sloping roofline flows all the way down to the boot, which comes integrated with a sharp-looking lip looking like a spoiler.

The BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe feels just like the 3-Series sedan in the way it drives, and the world knows that the 3-Series has been one of the best among the entry-level luxury sedans when it comes to driving appeal behind the steering. The four-door coupe gets adaptive suspension at both the front and rear, which coupled to the perfectly weighted steering and the rear-wheel-drive layout of the car gives a pleasant driving experience.

For the Philippines car market, the BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe has been made available with a sole combination of a 2.0-litre four-cylinder diesel engine mated to an 8-speed automatic gearbox. This engine breathes out a maximum power output of 190 PS and a peak torque output of 400 Nm.

The BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe has been loaded with good amount of safety features as a part of the standard equipment, the list of which has prominent inclusions like the front, side and curtain airbags, ABS with EBD and brake assist, electronic stability control, traction control, front and reverse parking sensors, reverse camera and hill start assist.

With the added dose of the visual appeal of a traditional coupe, the BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe comes across as a more desirable option over the 3-Series on which it is based.