{"id":85066,"date":"2026-03-18T18:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=85066"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:21:29","slug":"bmw-electric-sports-car-neue-klasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=85066","title":{"rendered":"BMW Is Keeping the Electric Sports Car Door Open \u2014 For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"post-summary-wrap\">\n<h3 class=\"post-summary-title\">Article Summary<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"post-summary-list\">\n<li>BMW product chief Bernd K\u00f6rber says an electric sports car is &#8220;not unlikely&#8221; but won&#8217;t arrive imminently, as the brand keeps its options open amid cooling EV demand.<\/li>\n<li>The Neue Klasse platform already supports up to 1,341 horsepower in a four-motor setup, and BMW built a coupe concept on it in 2024 that hasn&#8217;t been fully ruled out.<\/li>\n<li>An unconfirmed internal proposal for a 1,200-plus-horsepower BMW electric supercar reportedly came close to approval before being scrapped over market conditions and brand concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>When Bernd K\u00f6rber, BMW\u2019s product chief, spoke at the i3 launch, he left a door open. An electric sports car within BMW\u2019s lineup is \u201cnot unlikely,\u201d he said \u2014 just not something arriving any time soon. That\u2019s a carefully worded non-answer, but coming from someone in his seat, it\u2019s more than nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEV has a space in sports cars also, yes,\u201d K\u00f6rber told the media during a roundtable. \u201cSo I would say not unlikely, but not something that will be imminently launched next year.\u201d Now of course, the sports car segment definition is quite wide, from two door mid-size \u201cseries production\u201d coupes to high-end hypercars.<\/p>\n<p>The timing matters. Audi and Porsche both have battery-powered coupes in the works, and both are dealing with a market that\u2019s lost some of its EV enthusiasm. What once felt like an inevitable segment is starting to feel like a calculated gamble. BMW\u2019s position, at least publicly, is that the door stays open.<\/p>\n<h3>Neue Klasse Can Do A Lot. If Needed<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bmw-neue-klasse-supercar-00.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-480424\" title=\"bmw-neue-klasse-supercar-00\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bmw-neue-klasse-supercar-00-830x623.jpg\" alt=\"Rendering BMW electric sports car\" width=\"830\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bmw-neue-klasse-supercar-00-830x623.jpg 830w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bmw-neue-klasse-supercar-00-1365x1024.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bmw-neue-klasse-supercar-00-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bmw-neue-klasse-supercar-00-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bmw-neue-klasse-supercar-00.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It helps that the foundation is already there. The Neue Klasse platform under the new i3 runs an 800-volt architecture that can support up to 1,341 horsepower in a four-motor setup. Or even higher if you do something crazy like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2025\/02\/16\/bmw-vision-driving-experience-vdx-electric\/\">BMW Vision Driving Experience<\/a>. That\u2019s hypercar territory sitting underneath what\u2019s essentially BMW\u2019s mass-market EV architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2026\/01\/13\/2027-bmw-m3-electric-four-motors\/\">electric M3<\/a> is a separate thing. It\u2019s coming, likely with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2024\/12\/30\/bmw-m4-electric-za2-a-groundbreaking-ev-coupe-coming-post-2028\/\">M4 EV<\/a> alongside it, probably more than 800 horsepower \u2014 a serious car by any measure. But it\u2019s a four-door sport sedan with back seats, and that\u2019s not what people mean when they say supercar car in the original sense of the word. BMW knows the difference.<\/p>\n<h3>BMW Did Build A Hypercar. So The Story Goes.<\/h3>\n<p>Here\u2019s an interesting footnote, though entirely unconfirmed and likely to stay that way: at some point, a proposal for a full BMW electric supercar apparently got surprisingly close to approval internally. The car was in fact built, from what we heard through the grapevine. Over 1000+ horsepower, priced deep into the hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>It got shelved \u2014 the hypercar market was cooling, and there were concerns about whether a car at that level sent the right message about what BMW actually stands for. BMW won\u2019t confirm any of this, but it does suggest the company has been sitting with these questions more seriously than anyone\u2019s let on.<\/p>\n<p>Whether they revisit that hypercar or start from scratch, the platform can handle whatever they decide to build. Right now it\u2019s a timing question, and nobody seems to have a clean answer to that yet \u2014 including BMW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Summary BMW product chief Bernd K\u00f6rber says an electric sports car is &#8220;not unlikely&#8221; but won&#8217;t arrive imminently, as the brand keeps its options open amid cooling EV demand. The Neue Klasse platform already supports up to 1,341 horsepower in a four-motor setup, and BMW built a coupe concept on it in 2024 that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85067,"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-85066","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\/85066","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=85066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}