The BMW Observer Coupe

A very special BMW prototype 635 CSi with a sliding panoramic roof and rear window. The result of a three-cornered collaboration between The Observer magazine, Mike Gibbs’s Coventry-based company MGA and BMW (GB) Ltd. The Observer Coupe featured a car with roof and rear screen panels which motor electrically out of sight into the boot lid. Developed to showcase the innovation and skill of British engineering and designers the car featured on its own huge stand at the 1983 NEC motorshow. Key people wer