2015 BMW 428i Gran Coupe - Car and Driver (blog)
Our 428i GC’s test sheet reads like a duplicate of the coupe’s. With identical gearing and wearing the same staggered 18-inch Bridgestone Potenza S001 run-flat summer tires, the GC ran the quarter-mile in 14. 2 seconds at 98 mph, just a tenth of a second and 1 mph behind the coupe. Once you’ve selected the sport driving mode to stiffen up the adaptive dampers included in the $1000 Dynamic Handling package on our test car, the GC displays the platform’s customary trait: a satisfyingly solid control of body motions undermined... The 3664-pound Gran Coupe weighs 135 pounds more than the coupe, enough to drop the EPA highway rating from 35 mpg to 34 for the GC. We saw 27 combined. BMW cites equivalent cargo capacities for the sedan and GC, yet we were able to stuff an additional fifth bag of mulch in the hatch. Certainly, you could do worse in choosing a BMW from the 3-/4-series line (e. g. , the cetacean Gran Turismo). BMW offers twice as many body styles now as it did in the 3-series range of a decade ago. But as we drive every new variant, we wonder what compromises were made to the original formula to allow it to work for the additional models, and how much time BMW was able to spend tuning each one. Source: www.caranddriver.com
