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.
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