The two-door iteration of the 3-Series became available in August 2006 and premiered as a 2007 model. It is the second BMW coupe offered with BMW xDrive, BMW's moniker for all-wheel-drive, after the 325ix of the late '80s and early '90s. The coupe's body is its own design and no longer derived from the saloon with two less doors like its predecessors, being longer and narrower than the E90 counterpart.
