BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coup?© bows at Villa d'Este
 

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The first collaboration between <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/bmw/">BMW</a> and <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/pininfarina/">Pininfarina</a> is this blunt-force two-door called the BMW Pininfarini Gran Lusso Coupe revealed at the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/villa+deste/">Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este</a>. Said to be the "interpretation of a luxurious BMW Coup&eacute; as seen through the eyes of Pininfarina," once you get past all of the design-speak, you can focus on the full-bodied and keen-edged missile sitting on 21-inch wheels.<br />
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The long wheelbase makes for short overhangs. Up front, BMW's design language gets scraped across a whetstone, everything getting sharper, including the usually round cat's eye headlights that have gone dihedral. Under the hood is a V12, behind the twin-kidney grille in matte-sheen aluminium and high-gloss black. The same aluminum treatment also backs the taillights, the lenses designed to let air flow through them.<br />
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Inside is room for four, a cockpit canted toward the driver, Foglizzo leather in black and Tobacco Brown, 48,000-year-old kauri wood from New Zealand, deep pile carpet on the floors, a patterned virgin wool headliner and an "oblong aperture in the roof liner" set off by white LEDs.<br />
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There are words as flowery as the materials in the press release <a href="/2013/05/23/embargo-fri-may-24-12-30pm-edt-bmw-pininfarina-gran-lusso-coup/#continued">below</a> and a gallery of high-res images to make sense of it all above. What do you think, should BMW consider a production version of this concept as a successor to the long-dormant <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/8+series/">8 Series</a>? Have your say in Comments.<p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/05/24/bmw-pininfarina-gran-lusso-coupe-bows-at-villa-deste/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coup?© bows at Villa d'Este</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/05/24/bmw-pininfarina-gran-lusso-coupe-bows-at-villa-deste/">BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coup?© bows at Villa d'Este</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Fri, 24 May 2013 12:31:00 EST. Please see our <a href="/rss-term-of-use/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/05/24/bmw-pininfarina-gran-lusso-coupe-bows-at-villa-deste/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/20582659/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/05/24/bmw-pininfarina-gran-lusso-coupe-bows-at-villa-deste/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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