2025 BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe First Look
BMW's smallest four-door wears new lines and offers more tech than before.
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The smallest and least-costly BMW sedan features edgier styling and a simplified interior design for 2025, plus a newly available hands-off driver-assistance system is added to its tech suite.
Here's what you need to know about the 2025 BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe.
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The Gran Coupe Is a Coupe in Name Only
The Gran Coupe isn't a coupe, a term usually used to describe cars with just two passenger doors. Instead, it's a sleek, low-slung four-door sedan with a coupelike roofline that reaches its peak just above the front-seat occupants and then arches rearward toward a short trunklid. If you want a more conventional three-box sedan, BMW's bigger (and costlier) 3 Series awaits.
The 2's new-for-2025 looks include slimmed-down headlights and a different grille, now available with illuminated accents. Revised front and rear bumpers show off the newly standard racy M Sport design package, a previously optional look. Overall, the Gran Coupe is nearly an inch longer for 2025 than last year, though at 179.2 inches, it's still more than half a foot shorter than the 3 Series.
The Gran Coupe will be available in nearly a dozen paint colors, including two matte hues. A contrasting black roof is also on the options list for 2025.
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The cabin loses many buttons and knobs. This is on trend with other recent BMW interiors. The 10.3-inch digital instrument cluster sits right next to a slightly bigger 10.7-inch touchscreen — with standard Apple CarPlay and Android Auto functionality — in a single curved panel. Hidden climate control vents sit below, and what few buttons and knobs remain are largely clustered on the center console between the front seats.
A small toggle switch controls the transmission, which shifts into park automatically when the vehicle is turned off.
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The 2 Series Comes in Two Power Configurations
No matter which badge is on the back — 228 or M235 — the BMW 2 Series comes exclusively with a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. The 228's version can send its 241 horsepower to the front or, optionally, all four wheels through a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox. M235 versions have an uprated version of the engine that puts out 312 horsepower through the same transmission to all four wheels.
BMW figures the 228 Gran Coupe will run to 60 mph in 5.8 seconds, while the M235 does the same deed about a second quicker. Models with the available M Sport Package gain paddle shifters located behind the steering wheel as well as a Sport Boost mode. In this mode, if the driver tugs on the left shift paddle for a second or more, the system prepares the powertrain and the suspension for quicker reflexes. Think of it as a rapid-response Sport mode.
Myriad chassis tweaks include new mounts for the anti-roll bars and revisions to the newly standard adaptive suspension, though BMW says it will offer conventional dampers at no cost. M235 versions also have a locking front differential and can be equipped with uprated front brakes.
Note that the 2 Series Gran Coupe is largely unrelated to the automaker's 2 Series Coupe. That model is a two-door with rear-wheel drive (RWD) or all-wheel drive (AWD) and a longitudinally mounted engine as opposed to the Gran Coupe's front-wheel drive (FWD) or AWD and transverse engine mounting. The two share a similar point of entry at the bottom of the BMW lineup in the United States, but their unique chassis give them different personalities.
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The 2 Series Can Go Hands-Free, to a Point
The 2 Series Gran Coupe is newly available with the automaker's Traffic Jam Assistant feature that uses various sensors to keep the vehicle in its lane and away from other cars. The version of the system available in the 2 Series allows for hands-free driving at speeds up to 85 mph.
The 228 starts at about $41,000, including a mandatory $1,175 destination charge, making it about $1,500 more than the 2024 model. AWD is $2,000 more, at around $43,000. The AWD-only M235 runs about $51,000.
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They may be pricier to start than last year's models, but all 2 Series Gran Coupes now include a handful of previously optional features. These include heated front seats, navigation, proximity keyless entry, and a 12-speaker Harman Kardon audio system. An app that takes advantage of ultra-wideband wireless tech can turn select Apple and Android smartphones and smartwatches into a key fob, too. Additionally, massaging seats are newly available for 2025.
The redesigned 2 Series Gran Coupe hits dealers in the U.S. starting in March 2025, while the base FWD version will arrive later that year.
All vehicle pricing includes MSRP plus destination charges (set at the time of publication) and will be rounded to the nearest thousand.
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Andrew GanzAndrew Ganz has had cars in his blood ever since he gnawed the paint off of a diecast model as a toddler. After growing up in Dallas, Texas, he earned a journalism degree, worked in public relations for two manufacturers, and served as an editor for a luxury-lifestyle print publication and several well-known automotive websites. In his free time, Andrew loves exploring the Rocky Mountains' best back roads—when he’s not browsing ads for his next car purchase.
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