BMW and Zagato release very special Coupe Concept
BMW has quite the history at the elegant and glamorous Corcorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. Having used what is assuredly the most attractive of car shows (when the backdrop is Lake Como, you know you're doing something right) to drop such automotive atom bombs as the BMW M1 and 328 Hommages, BMW's sponsorship of this years' Corcorso ensured that the Bavarian brand got the hat trick with wild design debuts for the past three years.
Known simply as the BMW Zagato Coupé, the shapely sports car is certainly one of Zagato's finer works, and represents a rare occasion in which a German manufacturer has gone outside their own in-house design team to render a car's bodywork. Working to retain just enough of BMW's own styling cues while ensuring the coupe still had plenty of Zagato flair, the car may be a concept but has already proven itself roadworthy. Registered for regular use in Germany, the body has also survived high speed testing at BMW own facility, and although BMW refuses to say what might be under the bodywork, the proportions, layout, and interior certainly seem undeniably Z4-esque. Then again, with the insistence on secrecy, imaginations are bound to run wild...