{"id":82450,"date":"2025-05-18T03:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T07:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82450"},"modified":"2025-05-18T03:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T07:38:35","slug":"2025-bmw-m235-gran-coupe-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82450","title":{"rendered":"2025 BMW M235 Gran Coupe Hits The Streets Of South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luxury car brands will never admit to chasing volume, but everyone is doing it. Audi has the A3, Mercedes sells the CLA, and BMW offers the 1 Series hatchback along with its 2 Series Gran Coupe sedan sibling. We recently talked about the M135 hot hatch arriving in South Africa<\/a>, and new images show it didn\u2019t come alone. The M235 has also landed in SA, quad exhaust and all.<\/p>\n

Enthusiasts remember that the M235i<\/a> badge once referred to a very different car. Gone are the days of the rear-wheel-drive coupe with an inline-six and a manual gearbox. In contrast, the badge has been repurposed for a four-door sedan built on a front-wheel-drive-based platform. It comes standard with xDrive and no option for a clutch pedal. The auto-only compact premium sedan also drops the \u201ci\u201d from its name. Why? BMW is removing the letter from all gasoline-powered models. Going forward, only electric vehicles will carry the \u201ci.\u201d<\/p>\n

The M235 is one of the two gasoline-powered versions available in South Africa for the 2 Series Gran Coupe \u201cF74.\u201d BMW is showing off its M Performance sedan in Brooklyn Grey<\/a>, equipped with optional 19-inch wheels. We also spot the M Sport Package Pro, featuring dark Shadowline accents and red brake calipers. Inside, the M Sport seats come with tri-color stitching on the seatbelts.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the most expensive M235 Gran Coupe money can buy, as the car shown lacks M Compound brakes. The upgraded setup is also available on other mechanically related models like the M135, X1 M35i, and X2 M35i<\/a>. All of them share large 385-mm drilled front discs and 330-mm rear discs, paired with gray calipers.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not a fan of the black Alcantara\/Veganza interior, BMW offers a bolder red-and-black alternative in Sensatec (artificial leather). There\u2019s still more plastic than we\u2019d like to see, even in a 1 Series, but it is<\/em> a 1 Series after all. BMW has confirmed that the iDrive knob is on its way out<\/a>, and it\u2019s already missing from several models. All of the latest compact cars have dropped it, and upcoming models won\u2019t have it either.<\/p>\n

Cars like the 2 Series Gran Coupe help BMW retain its sales crown and fend off competition from Mercedes, Audi, and Lexus. Having a hot M235 in the lineup also helps the M division continue breaking sales records<\/a> year after year.<\/p>\n

Photos: BMW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luxury car brands will never admit to chasing volume, but everyone is doing it. Audi has the A3, Mercedes sells the CLA, and BMW offers the 1 Series hatchback along with its 2 Series Gran Coupe sedan sibling. We recently talked about the M135 hot hatch arriving in South Africa, and new images show it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}