Motormedia is getting its hands on the new BMW M3 and M4, and while reviews – including ours – come a little later, we can now at least enjoy the car’s cuts. France’s Motorsport Magazine had his hands on an extremely yellow M4 competition and an empty racetrack with a long straight track. What happened next is pretty predictable.
The magazine drove the car up to 141 km / h, and it really did not take long to get there. No surprise if the M4 Competition has 503 hp, and an eight-speed automatic transmission that shifts quickly. Motorsport use launch control here, and the car starts automatically in second gear, apparently to limit the wheel spin. The new M3 and M4 are being offered with four-wheel drive for the first time, but not for a few more months.
This is also our first good sound grip of the new M4, and while it’s nice to see that it does not have a soft limiter in Park, the sound is not too much of the M340i and M440i from the inside. Many cars on the European market now have particulate filters in the exhaust system, which muffle the engine noise. Here it sounds as if BMW is digitally improving the engine note out of necessity. American cars could possibly sound very different from their European counterparts.
No matter how it sounds, the new M4 looks very fast. BMW demands 3.8 seconds to 60 km / h for the M4 competition, but the Bavarians usually publish conservative acceleration figures. So it should be a monster, not that anyone is surprised.
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