Articles about BMW M4

Meet the fastest factory BMW M3 to date

BMW has revived an old badge for a new car. Following the 3er Competition and 4er CSL variants comes this, the brand new BMW M3 CS; once a Goldilocks version of one of the best compact performance cars ever built, now a

The M4 is one hell of a choice

Valentino Rossi's been quite busy since he retired from the MotoGP in 2021-except he's been playing around on track using four wheels instead of just two.The Doctor has moved on from motorcycles to cars over the past year,

Looking good

Automotive-themed footwear can be pretty hit or miss. Sometimes, their designs try too hard to appear car-centric and end up looking busy, other times there's barely anything resembling the vehicle a shoe is based on in the look.The

The best hardcore M4?

The return of the CSL badge to a hardcore BMW for the first time in two decades. Take an M4, add 40hp, strip out 100kg, and build just 1,000 of them.Nerdy weight-saving. A carbon hood and trunklid save 24kg.

Limited to just 1,000 units globally

CSL. Letter combinations come no more iconic. And yet this is only the third time in 50 years BMW has used them. Maybe the scarcity is what gives them power. Plus, the fact the one we all remember, the 2003 E46 M3

*raises hand*

The new Alpina B4 Gran Coupe is a rather big deal. It's the first car that the stupendously cool German tuner has unveiled since the news broke that it'd been bought out by the BMW Group.Happily, though, the ownership

There were some important announcements made this week

The pinnacle of the brand’s performance

Local BMW loyalists looking for a taste of the manufacturer's performance-oriented offerings are going to want to ready their bank accounts.SMC Asia Car Distributors, the German carmaker's official Philippine distributor, has just launched three of the company's

This 582hp Bimmer is set to lap the Nurburgring later this month

This is it-the basically finished, race-ready BMW M4 GT3. In development since late 2019-and set to run for the first time at the Nürburgring 24 Hours later this month-BMW Motorsport claims the new car is a big

It has what BMW calls a ‘panel bow’ soft top

As surely as night follows day, BMW has followed up the M4 Competition with this. This is the M4 Competition Convertible.A perfect car for this rainy, royal throne of kings, then, this sceptered isle. We'll start at the top. The

This Bimmer is for those who find the M4 too subtle

Hands up if you find the latest BMW M3 and M4 are actually a touch too subtle for you. We don't see many hands. Those sheepishly sticking their mitts up at the back, though? Let's hope you have a racing

It does the nil-to-century sprint in 3.5sec

BMW has a penchant for throwing M3 curveballs, and here's the latest-albeit less surprising-effort. This is the new four-wheel-drive BMW M3 (and M4) offering what can be sensibly described as...startling pace.Officially called the M3 Competition

Glass half-empty or half-full?

It's a big moment. The first BMW M4 was a hit. Those of us who geek out over the lineage of performance cars saw the renaming of the two-door M3 as a bit of an affront. Meanwhile, those who actually

Those lightbars make all the difference

This is BMW's 2021 fleet of safety cars for the upcoming MotoGP season, and a chance to wheel out the new kids on the block. (No, you're suddenly humming along to Hangin' Tough.)The new M3 and M4 Competition cars

And we all know what part will be brought up

It’s gonna be a big year

We've already driven the prototype of Hyundai's first junior hot hatch, and we liked it plenty. If there's any car that has a chance of challenging the sublime Ford Fiesta ST for super-shopping car medals, it's South

It’s compatible with a PC gaming setup, too

Well, we've finally reached the logical conclusion of the arms race to create ever more realistic driving-game hardware. Why put together a painstakingly detailed replica of a racing-car steering wheel for gamers when you could just build the wheel

Yay or nay?

Well, here's one way to draw attention away from the BMW M4's hit-or-miss grille design: Just plop an equally massive camper on its rear. Problem solved.Instagram user and visual artist bradbuilds has done exactly this, and the

Now we get to the contemporary models

As truly difficult gigs go, working at Top Gear isn't so much 'deciding which houses to save in a bushfire' as 'deciding which mildly caustic simile to invoke about a new car.' It's a good gig. We admit it.But

The tuner has made several different versions of the front end

Just recently, we asked whether it was possible to improve the face of the new BMW M3 and M4 simply by selecting the right spec in the newly available configurator. The answer from you lot was a resounding no, but luckily, Prior