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Don't get too excited. This isn't the new BMW M7. Sorry.
Instead, it's an official new M Sport package for the big ol' 7-Series, comprising a cheeky bodykit, bigger wheels and lots of M-branded bits on the inside.
Very nice, but we wanted an M7. Last year, BMW hinted that it might build a high-performance version of its luxury barge to compete with the Mercedes S63 and S65 AMG and blow the Audi S8 into the weeds. But now all is quiet on the M7 front.
OK, so this M Sport kit gives you a nice alcantara roof lining and carbon fibre bits, but we wanted an obscenely fast luxo-limo powered by something massive and turbocharged. A V12, please - the M3's got a V8, the M5's got a V10, so it only makes sense.
But there's no more power on offer with the M Sport kit. You can spec it on any 7-Series, from the base-spec 730d to the range-topping, 400bhp 750i. And even on the long wheelbase version, which makes absolutely no sense at all but we rather like it.
Know what we'd like more, BMW? Yep, an M7. Please?
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The-Educator commented on this article
at 01:05 pm on 26 June 2009
M750CSI? That would be a laugh. Perhaps the car could share an engine with that new coupe concept car that could be a new 8-series?
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AlKim commented on this article
at 05:12 pm on 26 June 2009
Hang on, we can buy an X6M or even an X5M, but not an M7? Right.
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Mikeado commented on this article
at 06:18 pm on 26 June 2009
Alarmingly, Hamann have done a better job. And I agree with AlKim.
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Padi commented on this article
at 06:51 pm on 26 June 2009
I love bm´s, in fact we have had seven, but this M-packet I dont like so much, Why is the crome there on the frontbanger? Couldent the vent be bigger instead?
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Mikeado commented on this article
at 08:16 pm on 26 June 2009
Oh, is that chrome? For a minute there I thought it had Daytime-Running-Lights! (viewing it on my iPod, so it's a little hard to tell) What's 'M'-ish about adding chrome? Surely it should be token carbon fibre instead?
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