Couldn’t agree more with this article. My 2016 F06 640GC is quite the ride and just as easy to maintain as my other BMWs. And best of all, this was the last platform for the N55, ergo, the most refined version of the engine, and the car comes with the older iDrive system.
The M6 pushes it too far in my opinion, with that terrible hot 8 engine which, in reality, almost never gets to be fully utilized. It does make a glorious sound at red lights, but otherwise it is simply over the top in all regards compared to the 640. $4000 a wheel carbon ceramic brakes? For what? The 640 will break hard enough to trigger antilocks at the same distance that the M6 will trigger it’s antilock – that is under the control of the tires, so you never really get to use those expensive brakes unless you are tracking the car. And lets be honest, this is NOT a track car in any way. My ’15 F32 is 5000% a better track car, and it is not even the M version of that line!
So get the non-M version with perhaps some of the finer features if you can find them (upgraded leather, B&W radio) and non of the extra crap (lane control, adaptive cruise, etc), and enjoy one of the best cars from what will surely be known as the “peak car” era.
The coupe lost value the quickest, and is quite close to bottom at this point. The convertible seems a car without a cause, no one wants to sit in the back of a convertible… it sucks, even if this one has enough room for adults, they still don’t want to be back there. The GC, or sedan as the rest of the world would call it, at least offers a hint of usable rear seats, but more frequently is where I put the groceries as you are not supposed to put any liquid in the trunk as that is where the computers are. Of course.
Typical to many $100k cars, these have likely been taken car of and were not the prior owners daily driver, so low mileage examples are all over the place.
And the best part of all? BMW choose to outfit the platform with the older 3G Telemetry, so now the car is no longer connected to their servers! Yea!
Source: BMW Built One of Its Most Beautiful Cars Ever — Then Just Retired It
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