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    BMW M440i xDrive Coupé Steptronic

    Apr 16, 2021 5 minutes

    Price: R1 238 854 0-100 km/h: 4,69 seconds Top speed: 250 km/h Power: 275 kW Torque: 500 N.m CAR fuel index: 9,36 L/100 km CO2 : 178 g/km

    One of the best-balanced offerings from BMW I’ve sampled in some time Gareth Dean

    The famed philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon coined what is perhaps the quintessential quote when it comes to appreciating the less conventional side of aesthetics. When he penned his observation, “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion” back in 1597, he likely never thought his now widely renowned empirical musing would be applied to a horseless carriage from Bavaria ... much less one that wasn’t the jauntily sheet-metalled handiwork of a certain Chris Bangle.

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