For buyers who find luxury sedans a bit too stodgy, BMW serves up the 650 Gran Coupe, a fastback four-door that mixes practicality with coupe-like styling and turbocharged V8 power.
What's New for 2015
Aside from some revised gauges, the Gran Coupe is unchanged.
Choosing Your 650 Gran Coupe
On the safety front, BMW offers the Driver Assistance Package, a bundle of advanced safety technology like lane-departure warning and a surround-view camera system. The Cold Weather Packages adds heated rear seats and a heated steering wheel, and the Lighting Package gets you LED headlamps with automatic high beams.
Finally, there's the M Sport Edition of the Gran Coupe, which includes virtually all the contents of the option packages except heated rear seats and a heated steering wheel.
Individual options include an upgraded suspension, infrared night vision in pedestrian detection, adaptive cruise control and a Bang & Olufsen surround-sound system.
Of all the optional equipment you can add to the 650 Gran Coupe, we consider the Driver Assistance Package to be the most essential, and it's quite reasonably priced. If you want even more in the way of luxury or sportiness, we recommend upgrading to the M Sport Edition, which gives you nearly every available feature at a discounted price.