BMW Skytop delivery at the BMW Welt - Exclusive Privacy Room

[Singletrack]

It has some interesting design elements, but there are a lot of cars I would rather have for 500k.

[yousefnjr]

Originally Posted by Needsdecaf

Imagine paying all that money and having iDrive 7. :P

Yeah what kind of loser wants buttons and a simple display

[BMWTennis]

Originally Posted by yousefnjr

Yeah what kind of loser wants buttons and a SLOW simple display

Corrected it for you

[Alpine Wait]

Originally Posted by NSX2M4

Did you maybe miss the title and purpose of the desciption? It was built to be a marriage of old and new.

That's the wrong kind of old and new.

Give us all-analog if they want the desirable kind of old. No one 'wants' a 2018 interior in 2025. 1999 Z8 interior, maybe.

[jib-m2]

Originally Posted by ArviHujan

BMW please make this car with a v8 s68 or even straight 6 s58 scrap the xm

What is this AI slop…

[KoenG]

Originally Posted by kjx

It's because it goes from the underground vault at the Welt straight to delivery.

For safety reasons, only very limited amount of fuel is stored in each vehicle's tanks while in storage (which may be weeks until the customer arrives).

So, this is the reason you can't fill it up the day of delivery? LOL

[KoenG]

Originally Posted by rotatingchicken

These are actually so nice, I love. I wish they’d make this a more available model I think it would sell well. Also with iDrive 7 instead of 8 is huge for me. 8 is horrendous and makes so many things such as climate, lights, etc so much of a pain when it didn’t need to be. This is an amazing vehicle, hopefully they’ll bring back basic functionality and simplicity and options, because they’re quickly throwing it all away with iD8 and the most recent models since.

Get a M8 for less than half the money and drive away with the better car. BTW, it's not restricted in production.

[KoenG]

Originally Posted by ArviHujan

BMW please make this car with a v8 s68 or even straight 6 s58 scrap the xm

I believe we can savely conclude that BMW is not that much in supercars as it is in heavy weight SUV's. BMW will probably never again invest in a dedicated M car, after their XM experience.

[rotatingchicken]

Originally Posted by ArviHujan

BMW please make this car with a v8 s68 or even straight 6 s58 scrap the xm

I like it except for the rear. The rear looks like a Porsche, which I’ve never been any fan of design-wise. However it could be a good baseline. Unfortunately it seems BMW is moving away from high end and/or performance cars and simply following iPad screen trends and base performance to chase sales. While I get it, I also don’t. They need to stop calling everything an M and at least have some sort of dedicated super car territory. I love this Skytop. I was gonna get one but it was sold out, apparently before I even ever heard of it. Wild.

[Frosty]

This is quite beautiful... the hard-top coupe even more so....

[Msparta]

Originally Posted by NSX2M4

Did you maybe miss the title and purpose of the desciption? It was built to be a marriage of old and new.

Too lazy to complete the interior properly hence a reskin of the 8 keeping the old idrive - rework the description to fit the lazy narrative - my 2 cents

[afadeev]

Originally Posted by MisanoblueZ4

So the skytop is a limited edition 8 series convertible with a body kit?

Yes.
At 5x price.
And limited quantity.

Originally Posted by NSX2M4

Did you maybe miss the title and purpose of the desciption? It was built to be a marriage of old and new.

Old = 8 series.
New = 5x price with new skin.

Fittingly, it goes to a douche who will stick it into his collection:
https://www.bmwblog.com/2025/10/20/b...iveries-begin/

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[ArviHujan]

Originally Posted by rotatingchicken

I like it except for the rear. The rear looks like a Porsche, which I’ve never been any fan of design-wise. However it could be a good baseline. Unfortunately it seems BMW is moving away from high end and/or performance cars and simply following iPad screen trends and base performance to chase sales. While I get it, I also don’t. They need to stop calling everything an M and at least have some sort of dedicated super car territory. I love this Skytop. I was gonna get one but it was sold out, apparently before I even ever heard of it. Wild.

Agreed the m badge is being devalued dont mind the proper m versions of car but m50’s m40’s esp new ones with quad exhausts dont help that distinction

[21M2C-ya]

Originally Posted by MisanoblueZ4

So the skytop is a limited edition 8 series convertible with a body kit?

I don’t see a resemblance.

[MalibuM3]

Originally Posted by kjx

It's because it goes from the underground vault at the Welt straight to delivery.

For safety reasons, only very limited amount of fuel is stored in each vehicle's tanks while in storage (which may be weeks until the customer arrives).

Wrong. I took delivery of my G80 in the same privacy room back in 2022. The fuel tank was 1/1 at the time of the handover. See fuel gauge.

[J-RO]

Originally Posted by Needsdecaf

Imagine paying all that money and having iDrive 7. :P

They did not want to ruin the interior with a big screen.

[Slow M3]

So BMW can still make beautiful cars, they just choose not to. Either that or the good looking cars are reserved for the ultra wealthy, the rest of us get G80 and G90 slop 😂

[Phillies8008]

Originally Posted by Needsdecaf

Imagine paying all that money and having iDrive 7. :P

That's a feature, not a bug.

[Phillies8008]

Originally Posted by My M3

All I can add is I hope the new owner is able to enjoy the car.
It does look good.

That's the really sad part: it's more likely than not that this car will sit largely un-driven. It seems like such a waste when you see a 10 year old car with 2,000 miles or something like that.

[MisanoblueZ4]

Originally Posted by 21M2C-ya

I don’t see a resemblance.

Thanks for the picture, really drives home that it’s an 8 series. They tweaked the headlights and filled in the side profile. As others mentioned, reskinned the 8 series interior which is why it’s using Idrive 7 and last gen steering wheel.

The 8 series is a great looking BMW which is why this one is nice. It’s immediately recognizable as an 8 series platform.

The other thing the Skytop will share with it’s 8 series brothers is heavy depreciation. This is no Z8 imo.

[21M2C-ya]

Originally Posted by MisanoblueZ4

Thanks for the picture, really drives home that it’s an 8 series. They tweaked the headlights and filled in the side profile. As others mentioned, reskinned the 8 series interior which is why it’s using Idrive 7 and last gen steering wheel.

The 8 series is a great looking BMW which is why this one is nice. It’s immediately recognizable as an 8 series platform.

The other thing the Skytop will share with it’s 8 series brothers is heavy depreciation. This is no Z8 imo.

You know after staring at it thanks to you lol I mean that in a nice way. The front looks very close to the eight. I can agree with that. You make some valid points touché.

[StradaRedlands]

Originally Posted by afadeev

Fittingly, it goes to a douche who will stick it into his collection:
https://www.bmwblog.com/2025/10/20/b...iveries-begin/

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Every single one of them will go into someone's collection. That's the whole point of them. This guy just consented to have it publicized.