2015 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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"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.
Love it, but why does BMW sabotage the debut of their gorgeous E80 M's with these goofy colors.
the M3 is better in every way over the m4...and ironically thats how it should have been always.
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.
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?