BMW’s sharp 440i coupe is a pleasure to drive

HOW do you make a good thing better? Well, by improving it, of course. In the case of the BMW 440i which we’ve had the pleasure of tooling around in recently, even the famously short-sighted cartoon character Mr Magoo, might have problems actually outlining what exactly BMW has done to improve the latest version over the last one, writes Declan Colley.

Yes, the Munich boys might have refettled items such as bumpers, lights and other body elements — and not by much it has to be said — but you would have to be a forensic scientist to be able to identify each and every one of the visual differences implemented.

Certainly the car does, even to a calloused eye, look sharper what with the dazzling new front and rear LED lights and clusters and there appears to be a few more aerodynamic elements to the body, but there has been no truly drastic reappraisal of the overall design. Which is good because the previous version was pretty sharp after all.