BMW hasn’t just begun shipping another batch of fast cars — Munich has started delivering the Skytop, one of the rarest and most expensive vehicles in the brand’s modern history. The first car has already reached its owner, and it wasn’t handed over in the usual BMW Welt area but inside the closed Exclusive Privacy Room — a space that ordinary buyers simply don’t get into.
The Skytop’s story began in 2024 at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. Back then it was just a show car, a concept, a polished rehearsal in front of the cameras. But the reaction from wealthy clients was so strong that BMW agreed to the unthinkable — a production run of 50 units. Underneath sits the M8, but the body has been reworked beyond recognition: a two-door convertible with a manually removable targa roof made of two leather-wrapped panels.
BMW never disclosed the official price — and that’s part of the game. According to sources, the Skytop costs around €500,000 (roughly $580,000 or 42.3 million rubles at the current central bank rate). If the figure is accurate, the only new BMW ever priced higher is the 3.0 CSL at around €750,000. But buyers at this level don’t care about acceleration times or the diagonal of an infotainment screen. They care about something else — rarity, story, and the certainty that a car like this could never be built a second time.
The handover itself is a separate piece of theater. The BMW Welt Exclusive package costs €1,320 (about $1,530 or 112,000 rubles). It includes a chauffeured transfer, refreshments on arrival, a virtual presentation, a dedicated handover area, a detailed walkthrough of the car’s features, a four-course dinner, a tour of the Munich plant, access to the BMW Museum and a visit to BMW Group Classic headquarters.
And the Exclusive Privacy Room is another €249 (around $288 or 21,000 rubles) on top. That money buys the new owner 90 minutes alone with the car in a private setting, plus a full recording of the ceremony. For an ordinary car this ritual would look absurd. For the Skytop it’s almost mandatory.
It gets more interesting from here. Next up is the Speedtop — M8-based again, but reborn as a two-door shooting brake. The run is capped at 70 cars, and those have been spoken for too. It looks like Munich has stumbled onto an unexpected gold mine: instead of churning out pricier versions of regular models, it now sells tiny batches of cars that customers buy not as transport, but as an event.
