{"id":84591,"date":"2026-01-08T17:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=84591"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:51:33","slug":"bmw-sold-new-6-series-gt-six-years-after-discontinuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=84591","title":{"rendered":"BMW Sold Brand-New 6 Series GTs Six Years After Discontinuation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the BMW 6 Series? We do too, but it\u2019s been years since BMW discontinued the model. By that logic, it shouldn\u2019t be very easy to buy a new one, either. But apparently, two lucky customers managed to take home a brand new BMW 6 Series last year \u2014 six years after the 6 Series officially left production.<\/p>\n

Our friends over at Motor1<\/em> discovered that, perhaps unsurprisingly, the two 6 Series left on the lot over half a decade after they rolled off the production line were of the 6 Series GT body style. One sold in Q3 and one in Q4, and BMW has in fact managed to move a number of these cars \u201cposthumously.\u201d BMW North America sold a single 6 Series in 2024<\/a>, 55 examples in 2021, and a whopping 200 cars in 2020. It\u2019s even more impressive when you consider the 6 Series Gran Turismo \u2014 badged as \u201cGT\u201d \u2014 was one of the lowest production volume 6 Series body styles produced. BMW only offered it in North America for two model years.<\/p>\n

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Of course, it\u2019s decidedly less impressive when you get a look at the car. The GT offerings \u2014 which spanned the 3 Series, 5 Series, and 6 Series \u2014 were a sort of lifted hatchbacks, a go-between for wagon and sedan body styles. However, instead of capturing the best of both worlds, the GT models sort of compromised both body styles. While a convenient liftback added practicality, space was compromised compared to a wagon. Furthermore, the car\u2019s awkward proportions really did it no favors at all. Every GT model sold slowly and in low numbers. With the 6 GT being the most expensive, it was the hardest to move of all.<\/p>\n

The 6 Series GT Isn\u2019t the Only Blast From the Past<\/h3>\n

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Along with a couple of 6 Series GTs, BMW managed to sell one more car that hasn\u2019t been in production for a while. It\u2019s none other than the love-it-or-hate it BMW i3. And we\u2019re not talking about the electrified version of the 3 Series sedan. We\u2019re talking about the I01 BMW i3<\/a>, the city car that marks one of BMW\u2019s earliest forays into mainstream electrification. Elsewhere in the BMW family you\u2019ll find that a MINI model has risen from the dead, too. Despite production ending in February 2024, MINI managed to sell 14 examples of the MINI Cooper Clubman<\/a> in 2025, the split-door tailgated version of the MINI Cooper 4-Door.<\/p>\n

The 6 Series GT, despite its slow sales, was actually quite a value proposition in some ways. It was considerably less expensive than the 7 Series, despite carrying a similar air suspension setup. You could even get rear seat entertainment, which when combined with the added cargo space, made it a superior choice relative to the contemporary 7 Series for some buyers. Too bad the sales figures never supported that hypothesis.<\/p>\n

Source: Motor1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember the BMW 6 Series? We do too, but it\u2019s been years since BMW discontinued the model. By that logic, it shouldn\u2019t be very easy to buy a new one, either. But apparently, two lucky customers managed to take home a brand new BMW 6 Series last year \u2014 six years after the 6 Series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84592,"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-84591","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\/84591","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=84591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}