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BMW will launch a new super coupe and this will be the great sports car successor to the i8 and the M1

Despite entering a new era of electrification, BMW does not want to stop having a great sports car in its portfolio. And we are not talking about mere rumors circulating on the networks, since several prototypes have been seen and photographed circulating on open roads.

To try to decipher a little what the next BMW sports car could be like, we are going to go back in time, specifically to 2019. It was then that the brand unveiled the Vision M Next, a kind of two-seater hybrid coupe that had a 600 hp rear engine. The idea was to use it as a basis to build a street model whose name would have been I16. But as Domagoj Dukec, BMW's design director, recently revealed, the development was canceled in 2020.

The good thing is that for sports car lovers the idea is still on track, although with a slightly different concept. In the spy images you can see a coupe-style body that is a little raised and that, by not having exhaust outlets, could be 100% electric. In this way, some dare to publish that it could have four engines to achieve a power of around 1,000 hp and that it would use the Neue Klasse platform of the new generation of BMW models.

In the same way as it happened with the i8, this next BMW sports car would have a silhouette in some way inspired by the 1978 M1, one of the icons of the brand's history. In this case it seems that it would have very smooth surfaces and few edges, with very short overhangs. The two kidneys would cover the entire front and the small lights placed on the sides, while at the rear a large red strip would dominate the rear.

Based on this first base, there is a detail that continues to attract the attention of many: the ground clearance of the next BMW sports car. It is normal for electric cars to be a little higher than normal because the batteries have to fit into the lower part of the passenger compartment, which makes it rise. But here it seems that it wants to get closer to other recent creations such as the Porsche 911 Dakar or the Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato. We must not even forget that the German brand already showed a prototype of a raised two-door sports car in 2001 with the X-Coupe.

Speaking of curiosities, there is another aspect that has caused many comments on social networks. In the images of the prototypes, there are no brake systems behind the wheels, but this does not mean that it does not have them. The most normal thing is that by installing four motors, one per wheel, a system of extensive regeneration is used to be able to stop. Although all this for now is nothing more than conjecture of a model that has at least two years left before reaching the dealerships.

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