An initial set of 4 photos of the new M-Sport kit for the F01 BMW 7-Series have been released onto the internet. On the front you get a new bumper with wider air intakes, and rather large pieces of chrome flanking the top of the left and right bumper air intake, kinda like how the pre-LCI E90 and 6-Series had chrome at the top of their kidney grilles.
The M-Sport kit also comes with its own set of wheels, which are of 5 double spoke design. These show off the disc brakes nicely, especially if you upgrade them to some nicer looking cross-drilled ones later, perhaps an offering from BMW Performance?
The design of the rear bumper mimics the front – an equal amount of chrome treatment. All that extra chrome probably makes up for the lack of chrome around the windows, instead replaced with “shadowline” trim. And instead of wood trim, the interior gets the aluminium panels that’s been so associated with modern M-Sport BMWs.
BMW will probably introduce the 7-Series M-Sport officially with a new engine variants. When the F01/F02 was released, it only had one diesel engine, the new all-aluminium crank 3.0 litre turbodiesel with a single turbo. There is also a twin turbodiesel around but it was not offered with the F01.
BMW must have been waiting for an update to that engine before slotting it in, and the time is probably here. They’ve just announced that their twin-turbodiesel engine has been upgraded from 286hp and 480Nm up to 306hp and 600Nm, with the latter number from as low as 1,500rpm. The car with this engine will probably be called the 740d M-Sport.
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
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this monster look very delicious…
very cun ma…
they probably have a lot of chrome plates left over from the pre E90 LCI and don't know where to put them!
Wait until the sun rising up..then your eyes will hard to open,then u end up behind the…(u choose..).Anyway, its beutiful car eh.
Looks good in a way. Maybe because of the colour of the car.
those chrome bits on the front bumper will act as daytime running reflectors, cool way of adapting the Audi day time running lights with an eye to power conservation without actually adopting it…
i still don't like the rear light design…. something is very wrong here for this luxury car if you compare to Mercedes S Class and Lexus 460…
Sometime this bulky 7 series looks sooo athletic, sometime i tot its a 5 series
hehez, purely 7-series
wah, chromey. lol.
punya la ganas…….. wonder wat price will it be in m'sia….
huyoo.. 7 series.. m-kit.. giler ah!
i thought it was going to be boring at first like the previous 7 series but this new one is just awesome with the m-kits.
sheer driving pleasure