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Originally Posted by JTO24
If you take a look at the spied 4 series front end thread, you can see, similar to Audi, that while the overall grill is huge, the horizontal area in the grill where the license plate mounts is a hard point; a support beam for the front end. So while the overall aesthetic appears as two, giant, conjoined kidney grills, in reality the frontal grill area is still separated into four quadrants, bisected by the number plate support beam.
So while this big grill approach could allow for more airflow and cooling, I personally think it is for aesthetics mainly. Since there is still no airflow going through the grill at the horizontal number plate support beam, BMW could have designed the front end to have two smaller, traditional kidneys and one larger lower front intake a la the e9x and f8x M cars.
EDIT: made a quick 'n dirty sketch to show what I'm talking about lol
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IMO, that "license plate support beam's" primary function is mostly about crash worthiness
