BMW’s wildest long-roof coupe is no longer just a concours fantasy.
A camouflaged Speedtop prototype has been seen testing at the Nürburgring, and the good news is that the drama appears to have made it out of the design studio intact.
The upcoming BMW Speedtop is expected to be a 70-car, M8-based grand touring wagon priced around $500,000, with production planned to begin by the end of the year and first deliveries targeted for 2027.
The Villa d’Este shape is still there
The Speedtop first turned heads at the 2025 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, where it looked more like a coachbuilt statement piece than something headed for customer garages.
The Nürburgring prototype is wearing heavy camouflage, but the key proportions are easy to spot.
The low shark-nose front end, the long central spine running over the body, and the tapering roofline all appear to remain close to the show car.
Even the winglet-style hidden door handles seem to have carried over, which matters because small details like those are often the first to disappear when a concept becomes a road car.
M8 power under a coachbuilt body
The Speedtop is expected to use BMW’s familiar 4.4-liter twin-turbocharged V8, the same basic engine family that gives the M8 its hard-edged grand touring pace.
Output is likely to sit around 617 hp and 553 lb-ft of torque, sent through an eight-speed automatic gearbox.
That would make the Speedtop far more than a design exercise, especially if BMW keeps the M8’s ability to cover distance quickly without turning every drive into theater.
The idea here isn’t a stripped-out track special, but a rare, fast, and highly stylized machine for buyers who want something more unusual than another super coupe.
Seventy cars and a half-million-dollar ask
The planned run of just 70 examples gives the Speedtop a very different position in BMW’s modern lineup.
At around $500,000 each, it will sit well beyond even the usual M-car conversation and move into the world of low-volume coachbuilt collectibles.
That pricing also changes the expectations around the car.
For this money, buyers won’t just be paying for M8 performance, but for rarity, bodywork, materials, and the sense that BMW is willing to build something genuinely unconventional.
A rare BMW for collectors who want shape over subtlety
The Speedtop is shaping up as one of the most distinctive BMWs of the decade, partly because it leans into a body style most performance brands rarely attempt.
A two-door shooting brake with M8 hardware, concours looks, and a tiny production run is a very specific proposition, but that’s also the point.
If the production car stays as close to the concept as the test prototype suggests, the Speedtop could become the kind of modern BMW that collectors remember long after more powerful M cars have come and gone.
