2015 BMW M4 Road Test

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edited September 2014 in BMW

image2015 BMW M4 Road Test

At this point in the evolution of BMW's 3 Series, this is about the time a new M3 should arrive. For the first time, though, there is an M4 to back up the M3 and it's a lot more sophisticated than an M3 stuffed into a two-door coupe body shell.

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  • fred188fred188 Member Posts: 1
    My wife just picked-up her 2015 Escalade. We like it except for the navigation system. We both give it a rating of zero, her 2007 Escalade had a much better system. Very easy to use. My 2015 Escalade is in transit. I hate the navigation so much I am thinking about cancelling the order.
  • hank39hank39 Member Posts: 144
    It looks the tail lights are LED lit, but the brake lights are not (at least in the model shown in this article)? A little surprised that car in this price category wouldn't have it standard. I know there are two camps for LED brake lights (some like it and some think it's annoyingly bright). The new MDX is this way as well. I guess higher-costing vehicles aren't immune to price-cutting measures.
  • imolaredzhpimolaredzhp Member Posts: 6
    Quote:

    "The 2015 BMW M4 is a strict four-seat, two-door coupe by its very nature."

    Not so fast, it's very possible that BMW will be coming out with the M4 Grand Coupe a la the M6.
  • s197gts197gt Member Posts: 486
    i must be getting old. the newer m-cars don't get my heart pumping like the e36 and e46 did when they first came out.
  • imolaredzhpimolaredzhp Member Posts: 6
    Quote the caption on your picture "The M4 is slightly narrower than the M3 sedan, but it's such a small difference no one is likely to notice." But going back to your M3 review you stated "Compared to the two-door M4, the sedan body is actually narrower, though they share the same track widths"..........So which is it? Editorial quality has gone way down since the days of Insideline....
  • 06sti06sti Member Posts: 17
    Kinda digging the overall look of the sedan over the coupe (at least in pictures).

    Love it, but why does BMW sabotage the debut of their gorgeous E80 M's with these goofy colors.
  • rob204rob204 Member Posts: 5
    That's awesome, fred... and has positively nothing to do with this article about an excellent BMW M4.
  • marcos9marcos9 Member Posts: 96
    Beautiful work BMW. And thank God you can still get it in a manual!
  • hdluffyhdluffy Member Posts: 12
    when you look head on at the back the round lights how they bludge up look bad. Drove behind one today for a while on the highway. awefullll


    the M3 is better in every way over the m4...and ironically thats how it should have been always.
  • sooththetruthsooththetruth Member Posts: 40
    I want so badly to dis this car. I have been a serial owner of German vehicles (never a BMW) since 1982, and they have all broken me with their expense to maintain after warranty, but even before the warranty ran out with repeated trips to the dealership for updates or small repairs that just stole my time. But it seems that BMW 's reliability seems to be changing for the better. I am in the process of getting a new car, and I look over everything out there, and I yearn for this vehicle. There IS cost cutting going on in materials, but the interior design is so practically beautiful, I can find nothing to match it for the sports car set up it is. The exterior is gorgeous, (of course, in my opinion) and the engine....well...the engine is a work of art. A source of power that will give pleasure not only for a brief surge on the highway to supra 120 mph, but in just the way if feels just starting down the road. If you have ever ridden a very excellent horse, one that is "blooded" and full of fire, ready to run, dancing sideways with energy and the coat ablaze with vitality, then you can understand the feel of having this car in hand.

    No, I've never driven this car, but the article, and the photos, have me imagining this feeling, but to be fair to myself I have had German cars make me feel this way in the past.

    So I buy cars, never lease, but my wife points out that in my case, I should lease, since there has been ZERO success in my past buying German cars, the way they can possess you to keep them running well, the every increasing costs of long term ownership, not just of money, but time to effectively keep the car as you wish it. I am considering leasing this car, and just accepting that I will waste the money that I could have spent on a Japanese car that would be silently reliable for 200,00 miles (I had a Lexus GS 400 for that long, betwixt the parade of German cars).

    On the other hand, reliability is a luxury. However it seems that BMW has mastered reliability up to when their 50,000 mile bumper to bumper, pay all but tires and oil, warranty runs out.

    Then, just to make it all insane, BMW has created cars with such power, and that can yet be driven efficiently if you stay out of the turbo, and have made the exteriors beautiful. Aside from the (repeatedly) snarky remarks about the electronic steering that costs driving "feel" their cars are head and shoulders above everything else right now.
  • cjasiscjasis Member Posts: 274
    As a current E90 M3 owner I have mixed emotions. I've driven one of these (actually an M3 with stick) and loved the torque, loved the substantially improved shifter, and loved the interior. I hate the price tag and that silly bundling of options that BMW forces on you (I want the HUD but live in S. CA... what the hell am I going to do with a heated steering wheel?).
    I'm grateful that BMW still offers a true stickshift but I was less than enamored with the way the new turbo 6 sounds.

    One final comment... why isn't the RCF that Edmunds has in its test fleet listed as a competitor?
  • chol92594chol92594 Member Posts: 208
    hank39 said:

    It looks the tail lights are LED lit, but the brake lights are not (at least in the model shown in this article)? A little surprised that car in this price category wouldn't have it standard. I know there are two camps for LED brake lights (some like it and some think it's annoyingly bright). The new MDX is this way as well. I guess higher-costing vehicles aren't immune to price-cutting measures.

    I've noticed this with the current 3 series as well, so I'd imagine it's the same for the 4 series. The tail lights themselves have the LED fiber optics, but the brake lights are just standard incandescent bulbs. Kind of cheap, if you ask me, especially considering how much you can end up paying for a well-equipped 3 or 4 series.
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