NO 29 FROZEN EDITIONS

AN UNEXPECTED RETURN OF WINTER DURING SPRING TURNED BAVARIA INTO A FAIRY-TALE CHRISTMAS LANDSCAPE AND THE LAUNCH OF THE REJUVENATED BMW 430i CONVERTIBLE AND 440i COUPÉ INTO A BIT OF A CHALLENGE.

WORDS DIETER LOSSKARN

Ihaven’t seen snow like this in ages. When I checked the Bavarian meteorological report a couple of days before the trip to BMW’s Holy Grail in Munich, it showed beer-garden weather. Now, at the top of the 1 570 m-high Roßfeldpanoramastraße (Rossfeld panorama road), the temperature in the cockpit of the (closed) BMW 430i Convertible shows a bone-chilling -6,5°C. Snow on the roads is the reason for the remounting of winter tyres, restricting autobahn speeds to 240 km/h – according to a sticker in the middle console. The new face-lifted two-door retain quite a few design elements of the 2012 BMW Concept 4-Series Coupé. There are hexagonal full LED headlights now, and for the first time in the 4-series full LED rear lights, which are perfectly visible, even in a snowstorm,…

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