{"id":84273,"date":"2025-11-24T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=84273"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:47:03","slug":"bmw-skytop-parked-munich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=84273","title":{"rendered":"BMW Skytop Starts Deliveries \u2014 But Uncamouflaged Test Cars Keep Appearing in Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"

BMW recently kicked off Skytop deliveries, but test cars are still being spotted at home in Munich. Usually, prototypes wear camouflage to conceal the final design, although that\u2019s not the case here. For obvious reasons, the luxury automaker didn\u2019t bother to disguise the car. After all, it\u2019s a spitting image of the namesake concept, plus the usual parking sensors and whatnot.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as beautiful as the first time we laid eyes on it at the Concorso d\u2019Eleganza Villa d\u2019Este in mid-2024. The extent of the body changes makes it virtually impossible to tell the Skytop<\/a> is based on the M8. Well, at least from the outside. BMW clearly borrowed the cabin from the outgoing 8er, save for the reddish-brown leather.<\/p>\n

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However, we need to make an important distinction. It\u2019s always wrong to judge quality based on prototypes. Test cars are not fully indicative of what customers actually get. We\u2019ve seen plenty of work-in-progress cars with cheap, hard plastics and other subpar materials, but in every case, the subsequent production-ready version had a far nicer interior.<\/p>\n

Given how the Skytop demands a huge premium over the M8 donor car, the final two-seater cabin is certainly going to be top-notch. Sure, you could argue that BMW should have put more effort into giving the car a truly bespoke interior to further separate it from the regular 8 Series.<\/p>\n

Stepping outside, the Skytop immediately stands out. It creates a powerful contrast when parked next to regular cars like BMW\u2019s own 2 Series Active Tourer or an Audi A6 sedan. It\u2019s not just the body with its removable targa panels that makes the car an instant attention-grabber. The elegantly slim lights front and rear are a sight for sore eyes, as are the bespoke wheels with their wonderful lamellas.<\/p>\n

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BMW is keeping busy assembling the 50 cars before moving on to the Skytop\u2019s more practical sibling. The Speedtop<\/a> is still a two-seater but takes the form of a shooting brake with ample cargo room. It too is already sold out and won\u2019t enter production until the end of next year.<\/p>\n

What comes next? BMW won\u2019t say, but at some point, there will be an ultra-exclusive M car<\/a>. The team responsible for small-series models has a build slot reserved for a performance vehicle, so the future looks exciting. It\u2019s just unclear how near (or how far) that future might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BMW recently kicked off Skytop deliveries, but test cars are still being spotted at home in Munich. Usually, prototypes wear camouflage to conceal the final design, although that\u2019s not the case here. For obvious reasons, the luxury automaker didn\u2019t bother to disguise the car. After all, it\u2019s a spitting image of the namesake concept, plus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84274,"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-84273","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\/84273","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=84273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}