I HAVE been swanking around in one of these recently: a BMW 420i xDrive M Sport Gran Coupe Auto.
Swanking?
Hmmm. That suggests something a little show-offy. And that is something the BMW 420i xDrive M Sport Gran Coupe Auto is not.
The car is a masterfully sophisticated BMW.
You can have the standard BMW 3 Series saloon instead, of course, but that wouldn’t deliver the same level of multifaceted driving.
It has the lines of a coupe, yet has the practicality of a five door hatchback.
Does that sound a bit cross-gender? Perhaps. But the resulting appearance is very pleasing.
And that’s before we get to the xDrive bit; which is BMW speak for four-wheel drive: marvellously useful in winter; handy for those rainy spring downpours; providing an extra dose of grippiness in summer; and surefooted on those wet, slippery leaves in late autumn.
You can stick the driving mode in EcoPro for maximum economy, change it to Sport and toe it around the lanes, or leave it in Comfort and let the BMW’s processor sort it all out for you.
It does a lot of things this car.
You can have the standard BMW 3 Series saloon instead, of course, but that wouldn’t deliver the same level of multifaceted driving.