It would seem that the Vision EfficientDynamics concept car the Bavarians at BMW rolled out to the public quite some time ago is still the inspiration behind some rumors.

The most recent of them is that BMW are considering building a new model, a hybrid one no less.

The guilty party behind the rumor is the staff at German magazine “Autozeitung” who have made quite an interesting case.

Don’t think back to the BMW 850i with a washing machine engine in it, oh no, this will be a M powered vehicle. Even so, that’s not enough. It will be the 5 liter V10 engine out of the E60 BMW M5 which will be mated to a couple of electric motors rounding up the total horsepower figure somewhere around the 700 mark.

Not bad, not bad at all. The new BMW, dubbed the M8, will be nothing short of spectacular if we pick up this presentation, the spec sheet of the Vision EfficientDynamics concept and the talent that BMW has on offer.

Perhaps it will also be turbocharged, better yet, twin turbocharged. And perhaps it will have machine guns on the roof. We’ll just have to put our sensible hats on, not take it to seriously. Well at least some cheeky Germans who actually work for BMW confirm this.

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Spyshots of the 2012 BMW 6 Series both coupe and convertibles have been seen around quite a bit and recently they’ve been dropping some of the camouflage as well but one particular model, perhaps the most eagerly expected one of the full F12 lineup hasn’t yet been seen around.

Things have changed today, the 20120 F12 BMW M6 has been spotted near the Nurburgring and showed up covered in camo from bumper to bumper.

Beside the obviously less revealing look of the car, the fact that this gave it away as a M6 are the massive and different wheels, the very low profile tires, the quad exhaust layout that’s visible on most M powered Bavarian creations and the drilled brake rotors.

The changes that can be spotted so far are the restyled front bumper and an LED strip used for the turn signal indicators can be found beneath the restyled headlight.

As a typical assumption based on past generations of BMW M6, the F12 variant will use the twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter V8 used in the X5 M the X6 M and soon the M5 saloon but with more grunt, expect somewhere in the best part of 570-580 horsepower or so.

All signs point to a Paris Motor Show debut for the revised 6 Series, so we’d expect the M6 to debut early next year and go on sale as a 2012 model.

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