supaer
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- Mar 16, 2015
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- Here - C63s AMG - GONE - C63 507 - Here - Golf R - Here - BMW M135i - GONE - M4 Competition
Last week I was lucky enough to be given my friends Bmw M4 for a week whilst he was away. As my C63 is my first AMG I have owned, I have been very impressed with it and completely happy! However having previously owned 6+ BMW M’s I have a slight soft spot for them.
I was always adamant that after my ownership of the C63 I would go straight back to them M4 or 5 door M3 (family dependent).
So just wanted to write a little review on this for anyone who is interested in the M4/M3.
The car is a pearly white with half black and silver wheels. Looks very nice from the front back and side, I really like it.. So jumped straight in and he tried to explain to me, push this button to change the blah blah blah blah blah…… I switched on the car which starts in “efficient” mode, and what a ROAAAAR it makes, no only joking it sounds like a little school boys fart in class. What a disappointment, sounds completely rubbish. So then you push all the suspension, exhaust and steering and it becomes a bit raspier… I am pretty sure that like the new Golf R and some other similar turbo cars lacking in engine noise, the noise is generated through a sound actuator in the engine resonationg noise, because the 3 litre plant in the M4 sounds terrible in its natural state, thanks turbo’s.
The car, no denying once in the right settings it is quick and once you set the loud speaker to make a good noise the rasp and pop from the exhaust is pretty nice, very nice in fact. I found myself accelerating all the way to when the turbo would spool up then taking my foot of and it would make a lovely pop and sort of turbo car fart…. I liked this, but I can’t imagine that this is very good for the car..
Handling wise was good, the car is very twitchy and with those huge 19” Michelin Pilot Super Sports I would of thought that would not have happened. I found it had too much torque and on the autobahn at higher speeds I put my foot down and didn’t feel I had to much confidence with the yellow light flashing so much. Wish surprised me a lot as the M is such a handling focused car, maybe I was doing something wrong. I don’t know. Petrol was rubbish to for how efficient it is meant to be, 19.4 mpg.
Anyway final summary, I am not ready to commit to the turbo generation of cars. I find them boring, not enjoyable and completely take away the specialness of a naturally aspirated engine. I am sure the engineering is top notch and everything is “derived from F1” etc but give me a naturally aspirated performance engine over a turbo’d performance one any day of the week.
Sad times that the great engines of this world are being lost, so I am going to hang onto my little piece of history a while longer.
(Ps I want to upload a picture of them together in the garage, however cant see how to do this)
I was always adamant that after my ownership of the C63 I would go straight back to them M4 or 5 door M3 (family dependent).
So just wanted to write a little review on this for anyone who is interested in the M4/M3.
The car is a pearly white with half black and silver wheels. Looks very nice from the front back and side, I really like it.. So jumped straight in and he tried to explain to me, push this button to change the blah blah blah blah blah…… I switched on the car which starts in “efficient” mode, and what a ROAAAAR it makes, no only joking it sounds like a little school boys fart in class. What a disappointment, sounds completely rubbish. So then you push all the suspension, exhaust and steering and it becomes a bit raspier… I am pretty sure that like the new Golf R and some other similar turbo cars lacking in engine noise, the noise is generated through a sound actuator in the engine resonationg noise, because the 3 litre plant in the M4 sounds terrible in its natural state, thanks turbo’s.
The car, no denying once in the right settings it is quick and once you set the loud speaker to make a good noise the rasp and pop from the exhaust is pretty nice, very nice in fact. I found myself accelerating all the way to when the turbo would spool up then taking my foot of and it would make a lovely pop and sort of turbo car fart…. I liked this, but I can’t imagine that this is very good for the car..
Handling wise was good, the car is very twitchy and with those huge 19” Michelin Pilot Super Sports I would of thought that would not have happened. I found it had too much torque and on the autobahn at higher speeds I put my foot down and didn’t feel I had to much confidence with the yellow light flashing so much. Wish surprised me a lot as the M is such a handling focused car, maybe I was doing something wrong. I don’t know. Petrol was rubbish to for how efficient it is meant to be, 19.4 mpg.
Anyway final summary, I am not ready to commit to the turbo generation of cars. I find them boring, not enjoyable and completely take away the specialness of a naturally aspirated engine. I am sure the engineering is top notch and everything is “derived from F1” etc but give me a naturally aspirated performance engine over a turbo’d performance one any day of the week.
Sad times that the great engines of this world are being lost, so I am going to hang onto my little piece of history a while longer.
(Ps I want to upload a picture of them together in the garage, however cant see how to do this)
