BMW M8 Competition Gran Coupe Rental in Los Angeles
The dark green BMW M8 Competition Gran Coupe with the ivory white interior is based in Los Angeles. It is the distance car, a 617 hp V8 with 4 doors and a low, wide body that reads as expensive before it reads as a BMW. Book it for the long weekend up the coast, the client dinner in Beverly Hills, the arrival that should not look rented. It serves Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire.
How It Drives
The door is long and frameless and you step down into it rather than in. The seat sits low, the hood runs out ahead of you, and the car feels wide in the lane from the first block. Push the button and the 4.4L twin-turbo V8 idles deep and distant, never loud at parking speed. In Comfort the adaptive dampers and the long wheelbase make it glide, and the 8-speed automatic is barely there. The brake pedal has 2 settings, so leave it in Comfort for town. Then the freeway. 617 hp and all-wheel drive put it at 60 in 3.1 seconds, but the real trick is how it gains speed from speed. Take it out the 101 to the coast and up Pacific Coast Highway past Malibu, where a grand tourer makes sense.
How It Photographs
Dark green over ivory is a pairing almost nobody orders, and it is why this car gets a second look. In direct sun the green goes almost black with a metallic flake that only shows on the arches and the hood. In open shade it turns a deep forest green. After dark it reads black, so light the ivory cabin through the glass. Shoot the front three-quarter with the grille and the black wheels filling the frame, and shoot the ivory quilted rear seat with the striped seat belt up close. These photos were taken in a glass office plaza. In Los Angeles, put it on Bunker Hill outside Walt Disney Concert Hall, or on Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena.
Why This One
We run 2 M8s and this is the only 4-door one. The other is a satin black 2-door coupe with a brown interior in Orange County at $795. This car is $695 a day, based in Los Angeles, green over ivory, and it has a back seat you can actually put adults in. If you want the M5's V8 in a body that looks like money and still need the second row, this is the only car in the lineup that does both.
What's On This One
This is the M8 Competition in the Gran Coupe body, the 4-door version of the M8. The Competition brings 617 hp and 553 lb-ft from the 4.4L twin-turbo V8, all-wheel drive with a rear-drive mode, the sport exhaust with quad tips, stiffer engine mounts and 20 inch wheels. The paint is a dark metallic green over a carbon fibre roof. The wheels are gloss black. Inside it is ivory white leather with quilted seats front and rear, M stripes woven into the seat belts, the M multifunction front seats, and the digital cluster with the centre screen. 4 doors, 4 seats, with a real back seat and a trunk that takes a weekend of luggage for 2.
Frequently Asked Questions
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