BMW M GmbH’s Jorg Bartels has confirmed that there are no plans to extend BMW’s line up with the M4 Gran Coupe.

M4 Gran Coupe plans scrapped

Bartels made this announcement at the Australian launch of the M3 sedan and M4 coupe models. “It was definitely considered, but there is no plan to build an M4 Gran Coupe,” he said in an interview with Carsguide.

“Part of the reason is expected production volume, but also the 4-Series Gran Coupe is built in a different factory to both the 3-Series (sedan) and 4-Series (coupe), so there area lot of challenges there.”

The 3-Series and its M3 performance variant are built at BMW’s Regensburg plant while the 4-Series and M4 are built at BMW’s Munich plant. The 4-Series Gran Coupe, meanwhile, is built at BMW’s Dingolfing plant.

On another sad note, Bartels also confirmed that an M version of the 3-Series Gran Turismo won’t be built.

BMW does however sell an M6 Gran Coupe which was designed to be the ultimate sports sedan, and is equipped with a twin-turbo 4.4-litre V8 engine that develops 412 kW and 680 Nm of torque.

It is connected to a seven-speed M Double Clutch Transmission which enables the car to accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 4.2 seconds and hit an electronically-limited top speed of 250 km/h or 305 km/h with the optional M Driver’s Package.