2015 BMW M4 Review

So it's got two doors. it's got two big kidney girls up front and inline-6 under the hood, hole and that big shiny  badge on the back bumper. but this is not an m3. it's something more.

This is the all-new never existed before BMW m4. it's not an m3, not in its name, and not in what it really is underneath. now that's almost entirely a good thing but not completely. so let's take a closer. i can't tell you how much I love the styling of this beast. it's so much more imposing than m3s of decades past and it's not just the design with its hard creases and bulging hood it's its size. this is the m4s official launch color and it's called Austin yellow metallic. named after the Circuit of the Americas f1 track in Austin Texas. and as everything is bigger in Texas this color is certainly fitting. compared to the previous generation car it's 3 inches longer 2 inches wider and about an inch taller okay I'll admit on an overcast day like today it's a little snot colored. but in direct sunlight it looks like a block of gold. and have you ever mentioned I love yellow cars.

Despite being a big with a capital B BMW really showed its engineering wizardry with this car. because even though it's bigger it's actually not any heavier than the outgoing model. in fact it's lighter by a really significant 180 pounds. the specs list on this car comes with a really long list of different components that have been optimized for weight reduction. but there's only two that you really care about and the first one is right above me it's that beautiful carbon-fiber roof and another piece of carbon-fiber jewelry you'll find is right underneath the hood with this beautiful strut tower brace. does it feel any lighter? well I'm not so sure I think if I could get this car out on a race track and trust me I tried. you would find that the the big open spaces and the speed this car would would bake four corners like pimple-faced teenager begs for a date. but as it stands driving on the street.

It really seems to prefer the straightaways. that's entirely the result of this new engine a twin-turbo three liter inline six. that makes a touch more power than the old unit but a lot more torque. in fact it's 40% more torque than the old v8 and it delivers that torque across an incredibly wide power band. do I miss the v8 engine? sure I miss it's fun high revving nature but with all the torque that this engine makes you forget about it pretty quickly. it'll hit 60 miles an hour in just 4.1 seconds with the 6-speed manual or order the 7-speed dual-clutch which I'm sure you will and that number drops in just 3.9 seconds. that's almost half the original m3 zero to 60 time.

So what does it feel like well not like an m3? I thought BMW would try and make this engine feel like a naturally aspirated one. but they didn't I don't even think they tried to instead they really embraced the turbocharged era that we're living in. sure it revs out extremely highly for a turbocharged engine. all the way up to 7600 RPM and there's no real turbo lag to speak of either but the power delivery still isn't instead it just hits you with this huge turbocharged wallop especially when you press the M button.

Press that button and the cars character changes dramatically the exhaust volume gets turned way up and the throttle is incredibly touchy it. sounds raw like you just rip the mufflers off and you can really hear those turbos working. the sound and huge bursts of thrust will have you hammering the throw over and and when you do you can instantly feel it in the rear of the car the back end kind of lifts up a little bit and starts to wiggle around and I'm not gonna lie. it's a little intimidating. there's something this car has that future BMWs probably won't and that's a real manual transmission. it's good but not amazing with a last-minute notch enos to each gearshift. BMW manuals have felt the same since well forever. one unique trait it does have however is a rev matching feature much like the new Porsche 911 or originally the Nissan 370z. interesting the hover it actually turns off when you turn on the M mode. which is kind of. when you're not at em mode the m4 actually feels more like a Grand Tour on the road and it's got an interior to match it actually feels luxurious and not in the usual Spartan BMW way. All that doesn't come cheap though and the m4 costs about $4,000 more than the old m3.

It's still a proper coupe and not a sports car and what that means is that you don't sit down really low and you can actually see out of it quite easily. as for these seats well they're plenty form-fitting if you want them to be. some features worth pointing out in here are the heads-up display which even shows what the current speed of it is unless you're an M mode and then you just get a beautiful color projection of the technology. the M button but there's actually two M buttons both located on the steering wheel and they allow you to configure the car two different settings so you can have different presets for whether you want the steering to be stiffer or lighter or how the transmission will react how the throttle will react and even the stability control system. and a final feature worth pointing out BMW is actually put a little steering wheel button right here on the center console what that allows you to do is have three different steering settings to help you further customize your car to make sure it suits you exactly.

                The BMW m4 really isn't an m3. it's not a fun little toss oval toy it's an awesomely powerful super coupe. I love this car but it's not the type of feeling I've had for m3s past. it's more like the love I've had for a brutishly powerful m5. which means my heart is still longing for a true m3 successor. now with each generation of BMW car getting larger and larger I think there's finally room below this model for a proper and badged car the m2  time has finally arrived.

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