This BMW 8 Series designed by American artist Jeff Koons is literally a work of art on wheels.
It’s a festival of color, and the BMW 8 Series isn’t a dull car to begin with.
Only 99 were built, and each one was hand-painted by Koons himself.
This one, which is available from SBX Cars, also has a great engine to complete the package.
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The idea behind this BMW 8 Series
BMW isn’t new to this sort of thing, and the company even came up with a name for their ‘artsy’ cars.
They call it the ‘Arts Cars’ series.
Unveiled to a global audience at Frieze Los Angeles, this is ‘The 8 X Jeff Koons’, a unique project that BMW wanted to create to turn these fast sedans into a work of art on wheels.
Koons combined 11 different exterior colors, ranging from blue to silver and yellow to black, which took 285 hours per car to apply.
Production was limited to 99 cars, and each car was hand-painted, so this was a massive task.
Koons apparently painted four cars a week during production.
A collector’s car
We shouldn’t let the colorful livery trick us into thinking this car is all show and no go.
It’s based on the BMW M850i xDrive, which means it has a meaty 4.4-liter V8 producing 523 horsepower.
That’s more than enough to propel the car from 0-60mph in well under four seconds.
The top speed is electronically limited to 260km/h – or 157mph.
This BMW also obviously checks all the boxes a collector’s car should.
In fact, it has only done 22 kilometers (13 miles), which means it was bought and delivered and never left the garage.
The auction will go live on SBX Cars, and it is set to end on February 18.
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