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BMW Whets Our Appetite with New M6 Gran Coupe Videos

If you're willing to trade some passenger space for a more stylish body and at the same time, don't care about the €25,000 (about US$32,900, in Germany) premium over BMW's other super-fast sports saloon, the M5, then by all means, you should check out the new M6 Gran Coupe.

We've already shared details and a photo gallery of the newest member of the BMW M family with you, but now it's time to see the turbocharged sports saloon in action through a series of video trailers that also include the usual static beauty shots.

Joining the existing Coupe and Convertible body styles of the M6 series is a third variant based on the so-called Gran Coupe, which is BMW talk for a sportier looking sedan model.

A few hours after we shared the first pictures of the M6 Gran Coupe, BMW came out with more photos and full details on its latest offering that will arrive in European dealerships in May, 2013, with a starting price of €128,000 (about US$167,000) in Germany, which places it between the Coupe (€124,000) and the Convertible (€131,400 ) M6s in terms of pricing.

North American sales will begin in the summer of the same year, with pricing to be announced, though, if BMW's German pricing strategy is anything to go by, it should cost around US$110,000.

As the sedan version of the M6 Coupe and Convertible series, the Gran Coupe features the same mechanical and aesthetic upgrades as the two other models with the added weight and practicality that comes with the two extra doors and 113mm (4.45 inches) longer wheelbase.

The high-performance version of the BMW 6-Series Gran Coupe sports saloon is a secret no more - well, at least in what concerns its exterior appearance, as official photos of the M6 variant appeared on the web today.

BMW's M6 Gran Coupé features the same bespoke styling cues and aerodynamic parts as its two-door brethren. These include a carbonfibre reinforced plastic roof, different bumpers, side skirts, a rear diffuser flanked by twin exhaust pipes on either side, 20-inch wheels, plus chrome trims on the double kidney grille and fender air vents.

There's no such thing as too much power when it comes to BMW tuning specialist and maker of some of the fastest Bimmers in the world, G-Power.

For its latest effort, the German brand is raising the pulse on the new BMW M6 Coupe (F13) with a performance package that starts with the 4.4-liter twin-turbocharged V8 lifting output from 553hp (560PS) and 680Nm (501 lb-ft) to 631hp (640PS) and 770Nm (568 lb-ft) – the same as G-Power's M5 tune.

Thanks to the evolution of racing games such as Sony's Gran Turismo and Microsoft's Forza series, just to mention a few, the line between the virtual and the physical worlds is becoming increasingly blurred.

Last month, for the launch of its new Forza Horizon Rallye, Microsoft arranged a pan-European road race from Paris, France, to Birmingham, UK, named "Escaping the Grid" with a special twist.

Here's a new batch of images of the most powerful and sportiest model to grace the range of the BMW 6-Series Gran Coupé to date, courtesy of the brand's M division.

These pictures come into the light after a previous (and admittedly, more revealing) set of photos were posted on Chinese website, and which we shared with you earlier today.

The new M6 Gran Coupé won't be making its online debut until the first days of December, when we will have more information on the car, while its public premiere will take place at the 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit in mid-January.

BMW sure chose a strange way to unveil the production version of its upcoming M6 Gran Coupe. The German carmaker brought the sports sedan along to an unrelated happening at the Nürburgring, and unsurprisingly, a few journalists attending the event did not miss out on the opportunity to snap a few pictures of the camouflage-free model.

The Bavarian brand did not release any information regarding the M version of the Gran Coupe, which itself, despite the confusing name, is a four-door sedan iteration of the 6-Series Coupe.

Nevertheless, we already know that the M6 Gran Coupe shares its powertrain with the two-door M6 models (coupe and convertible), meaning there's a 4.4-liter twin-turbocharged V8 with 553hp (560PS) delivered from 6,000 to 7,000 rpm and a peak torque of 680Nm (501 lb-ft) from 1,750 to 5,750 rpm, lurking under the hood.

The performance edition of BMW's new 6-Series Gran Coupe has been captured "naked" in the Bavarian firm's factory while the car was on a lift for service. The photo was posted on Twitter by a Dutch BMW dealer called "BMW De Beier"

From this angle, we can see the new M6 Gran Coupe's large alloy wheels with brake discs to match along with other traditional "M" cues such as the mirrors, sculpted side skirts and fender vents.

If we're not mistaken, there's also another M6 Gran Coupe finished in black parked behind the silver car on the hoist.

From this angle, we can see the new M6 Gran Coupe's large alloy wheels with brake discs to match along with other traditional "M" cues such as the mirrors, sculpted side skirts and fender vents.

If we're not mistaken, there's also another M6 Gran Coupe finished in black parked behind the silver car on the hoist.

A BMW fan club event that took place on the streets of Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City ( formerly known as Saigon) this past Sunday had an unexpected outcome when one of the drivers thought it would be a great idea to entertain the small crowd by power drifting his tuned M6 Coupe around a corner.

The owner of the matte-black M6, which is said to have some 700-horses lurking under its hood, lost control of the car and smashed into a park taxi van, narrowly avoiding its driver, but not the scooter rider that was located in front of the cab – fortunately, he was not seriously injured.

You would think BMW would want owners of the latest iterations of the M5 sedan and M6 Coupe and Convertible models to have a blast with their cars – and you're right, it does, just only after it makes a fix to certain 2013MY vehicles sold in the States.

A safety bulletin issued by BMW of North America and released to the world for all to see by the folks over at the F10 M5 Post forums, reveals that the Bavarian automaker came to know of a problem with the S63TU 4.4-liter twin-turbocharged V8 engine found in the 2013MY M5 and M6 cars.

If you are in the mood for high-horsepower duels, we have a little something for you from this week's Unlimited 500 drag race events in Moscow.

We'll get straight to the point and introduce you to the competitors starting with the first video in which we see a monstrous Chrysler 300C SRT8 with a 950hp 7.0-liter supercharged V8 (NOS) taking on a Cadillac CTS-V sporting a stock 556hp supercharged V8 and then a BMW M6 ESS VT3 cranking out 900-ponies.

Leave it to Lumma Design to take a rather understated sports coupe like the BMW M6 F12 and transform it into something that looks like it would feel right at home racing at the DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters or German Touring Car Masters in English).

Then again, looks can be deceiving as Lumma Design's tuning program for the M6 Coupe is strictly cosmetic, at least for the time being.

Just as the new 2013 M6 Coupe and Convertible models begin to arrive in European and North American (for now only the cabriolet as the coupe will follow later in the summer) dealerships, BMW dropped a fresh gallery of high-resolution images detailing the two models from all sorts of angles both inside and out.

The pride and joy of the third generation F12/F13 6-Series range is offered for the first time in the history of the model with a turbocharged V8 engine, as the first M6 sported a naturally aspirated 3.5-liter inline-six with 282hp (286PS) in EU-spec, and the second iteration a naturally aspirated 5.0-liter V10 churning out 500hp (507PS).

For the past 13 years, BMW has provided the official safety cars for the MotoGP championship with the Bavarian firm's M brand taking over the partnership in 2006.

Following the presentation of the new generation M6 Coupe and Convertible models earlier this year, BMW has decided to replace the MotoGP 1 Series M Coupé safety car with a brand new M6 Coupé from mid-season on.

The last time our scoop photographers nabbed the 2013 BMW M6 Gran Coupe, it was undergoing winter tests in northern Europe, with the company’s engineers having cloaked parts of the car in light camouflage.

If you need more help to visualize the new M6 Gran Coupe, photoshop artist Wildspeed and the crew over at Bimmer Post have created a series of speculative renderings to show us what the sports saloon could look like in real life.

After the world premiere of the 2013 M6 Convertible at the New York Auto Show today, BMW announced pricing for an array of new models that will launch in the States later this year. All prices listed below include destination and handling.

First up is the facelifted 2013 X6M that arrives in U.S. dealerships in May with a starting price of $93,795. BMW's crossover model is powered by 4.4-liter twin-turbocharged V8 that delivers 555-horses at 6,000 rpm and 680Nm (501.5 lb-ft) of peak torque.

In this week's drag strip battle, we have a stock Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG with 571-horses competing against two tuned German sports cars, a previous generation BMW M6 Coupe with 530-ponies and an even more powerful Audi RS6 sedan with 750-horses kicking under its hood.

This time, the number of ponies played their role in the races, though if it wasn't for a bad start, the Mercedes could have won the match with the Audi as well.

You can watch the race for yourself in the video that follows below.

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