We have got a three-way standoff right here, the reality possibly mendacity someplace in the course of the triangulation. We’ll begin with an Automotive Information report that outlines some exceptional adjustments coming to the BMW lineup. AN credit Sam Fiorani at AutoForecast Options for intel that BMW will stop manufacturing of the 8 Collection across the center of 2026 with no successor in place. If that occurs, it might imply the reborn 8 acquired eight years available on the market, from 2018 to 2026, one yr down on the unique 8 Collection from the Nineties. And cease us if you happen to’ve heard this one earlier than: Citing “a supply-chain trade supply,” AN reviews that BMW will start manufacturing of a brand new 6 Collection across the center of 2026. An nameless BMW vendor informed the outlet, in AN’s phrases, the brand new 6 would “attraction to upwardly cell customers who respect efficiency and luxurious,” however it’s not clear if the vendor was confirming the 6 rebirth or commenting on what a possible new 6 would do within the lineup.
This potential two-step, 8 into 6, would copy what occurred about 25 years in the past. BMW retired the primary 8 Collection in 1999, then launched the second coming of the 6 Collection in 2003. The third-generation 6 Collection coupe and convertible left our market in 2018, adopted out the door by the Gran Coupe and Gran Turismo in 2019.
A putative future 6er would sit on the automaker’s next-generation Cluster Structure due available on the market in 2025. Designed to accommodate pure ICE, hybrid, and pure electrical powertrains, we’re informed the brand new 6 would come as a coupe and convertible and supply at the least one gas-powered choice.
However wait, there’s extra. The AN story quotes a supply-chain analyst in saying the XM goes to be one-and-done come 2028 after BMW canceled the deliberate all-electric successor codenamed G79. Including hearth to fireplace, AN heard from Fiorani that the gas-powered 4 Collection is alleged to fulfill its demise the identical yr, changed by an electric-only 4 Collection in coupe and convertible physique types that takes the present i4’s place within the lineup.
On the opposite aspect of this, we have now denials: BMW answered inquiries about this from just a few retailers, telling Street & Observe, “Whereas as a matter of coverage BMW doesn’t touch upon third-party hypothesis concerning future product growth, given the eye current tales have acquired, we really feel it essential to make clear that there are presently no plans to reintroduce the BMW 6 Collection to the marketplace for mannequin yr 2026, regardless of what’s being extensively reported in automotive media circles. BMW has made no official assertion on the way forward for a successor to the BMW XM.”
So there. Except we verify the Bimmerpost discussion board web page that BMW insider ynguldyn has used for years to submit info on future product, amassing a wonderful monitor report. Beginning on the prime, a bullet level declares the current-generation 8 Collection will finish manufacturing over the 2025 and 2026 calendar years and the second-generation 8 Collection cabriolet, Gran Coupe and M8 Gran Coupe will start manufacturing in July 2026, working till June 2033. The twist right here is that whereas six variants are ending, solely 4 trims are persevering with; looks like the M8 in coupe and convertible kinds might be no extra, based mostly on this data.
There is no point out of a brand new 6 Collection on the web page. A Which Automotive? article from 2022 makes an identical similar case because the AN piece — 8 Collection and 4 Collection die, changed into a brand new 6 Collection. On the Bimmerpost thread discussing the AN report, person “hb,” later revealed to be Horatiu Boeriu from BMW Weblog, writes that whereas which may as soon as have been the plan (BMW Weblog wrote about it, naturally), plans have modified, so the “8 Collection will dwell on, in restricted variants” and there is not any 6 Collection comeback.
BMW’s denials did not point out the 4 Collection, making it the least-contested facet of the AN piece. The Bimmerpost future product web page says the 4 Collection in all kinds ends manufacturing in 2028, the subsequent i4 hitting meeting traces from July 2028 to October 2036.
And the battery-electric XM? It is there underneath G79, supposedly in manufacturing from December 2028 to November 2035. We’ve a sense there are extra adjustments coming to those plans earlier than then.
