The BMW M8 Is Here Very Early Thanks To An Image Leak
How about this for an early Christmas present? We were all expecting to be waiting until 2019 for the reveal of the BMW M8, but thanks to a substantial haul of images on German Car Forum, we can see the car from all angles right now.
It looks…pretty much as you’d expect. The striking 8-series has been made to look all the more aggressive, with enlarged vents at the front, big gills behind the front wheels and a new diffuser at the rear. We like what we see.
We also have blacked out kidney grilles at the front, this being the Competition version of the car. BMW has already revealed that the standard M8 will have “north of” 592bhp, but the Comp will reportedly wade into the super coupe battle with around 650bhp on tap.
The company also confirmed a few weeks ago that the car’s 4.4-litre, twin-turbo V8 - which is shared with the current M5 - will send its power to the tarmac via all four wheels. The all-wheel drive system is rear-biased, with the option of switching to a tyre-shredding rear-wheel drive mode if you’re feeling especially brave.
The car will be launched as a coupe in 2019, followed by a drop-top version and then a five-door ‘Gran Coupe’. In the meantime, make sure you check out the full set of leaked images on German Car Forum.
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Someone at BMW should send an engineer to fix the leaky pipes. Ever since the Z4, every new design has been leaked
One would say, it is the way they advertise nowadays.
Do you mean they need to send in the plumbers to fix that leak because its more like a torrent of water coming out now….
Musicians do the same thing by dropping a single or a few before the album drops so this isn’t any different. Considering that almost every interesting car for two years has been “leaked” it can’t realistically be something the companies can’t control in any way. If anything it’s intentional. Builds hype.
Isn’t he M5 4WD not AWD?
It comes with M xDrive.
How many wheels on a car? 4. - which is all wheels. 4wd/awd the same thing
Yes. It is a 4WD system that mimics an AWD system in many ways.
V12 860CSi. That is all
Won’t happen.
They really should pick the V12 from M760Li, just to make another V12 8 series. After all, E31 was iconic due to V12
The new 3 series G20 is also in the background of the first picture, but that M8 looks stunning, can’t wait to see it in real life
Genuinely thought the 3 was a Lexus…
I expected more of the design. It’s not much more aggressive than the 850
Our M8 is early to the party
Damn. People complain that new BMWs are ugly.
They need to open their damn eyes
Are the big M8 memes coming back? Lol I saw one in a dank meme compilation the other day… it was at Le Mans
Nice leaks, M8!
Am I the only one seeing the convertible version of the 8 series in the background of the second picture?