With less than a week to go for the 2025 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este (May 24-26), BMW has dropped teaser images of what appears to be a mysterious shooting brake, owing to its profile with a long roofline and a steeply raked hatchback. Those slim LED taillights and the general shape of the tail section in particular appear to draw cues from the BMW Skytop, the stunning coachbuilt Roadster concept that was also revealed at Lake Como last year. With the production version limited to just 50 examples and each rumored at $500,000, the sleek Skytop roadster with a 617-horsepower twin-turbo M8 heart was sold out.
Given the Skytop’s popularity, a limited-run shooting brake follow-up cannot be ruled out. While BMW has recently been making a comeback with its wagons in a big way, the Bavarian automaker's history with the two-door long-roof format can be traced back to the 02-Series Touring from 1971, and who can forget the Z3 ‘Clown Shoe’ of the late 1990s. More recently, we’ve also seen the BMW Touring Coupé. Based on the third-gen Z4, this concept stole the show on the lawns of Villa d’Este back in 2023.
For 2025, BMW once again returns as the official partner, curating the event with everything from concept cars to vintage and classic automobiles. There will be three world premieres, but what seems to tie it to this mysterious wagon is a press release from April where BMW, specifically revealed that it will “premiere an elegantly sporting one-off designed to provide motoring pleasure for two.” Broad Arrow Auctions joins the lakeside action this year for the first time, with several blue-chip classics set to cross the auction block on Saturday. As for this mysterious shooting brake, all eyes are on the prestigious Lake Como event for now.
Source: BMW Instagram
