![]() ![]() Some combination of suspension fettling, tire compound, throttle mapping, and wizardry harnessed the available power. With the later competition-package cars – like the one we borrowed for Mid-O heroics – BMW tamed the loss of grip when the S55’s fat midrange hits. Sometimes you want to let your hair down a bit but don’t necessarily want to YEEEEEHAAThe F82 was a stallion with wide flanks and flared nostrils – you couldn’t just reign it in. The S55’s power came on so hard and so early, it’d catch drivers out, especially if the traction control wasn’t there to reign them in. I tiptoed the car the rest of the way home, my palms slick with anxiety, and haven’t touched the traction control button on a roadgoing BMW since. When I poked at the gas, the S55’s glut of mid-range torque kicked right back, and the M4 nearly pirouetted into oncoming traffic. I loafed along in the car through a soggy city intersection just as the street light turned yellow. As peaky and loony as the V-8 mill was, you can’t argue with the raw effectiveness of two snails cramming big buckets of atmosphere into a Bimmer six. The engine, called the S55, features a dyno chart with power curves flatter than a pane of glass. Huzzah!.Īgain, the engine is the star a 3.0-liter twin-turbo inline-six putting down 425 horsepower and 406 lb-ft. Frankly, we are still barely coping.Īt the track way back when, we clocked a 12.3-second quarter mile, 3.9 seconds to 60 mph, and measured a curb weight (3595 lbs.) lower than its predecessor. Splitting segments into ever-finer pieces wasn’t a new idea, but it didn’t feel genuinely BMW. The M4 badge had no history attached to it Many felt that BMW were chasing Audi’s nomenclature rather than following their own path (the A4 sedan and A5 coupe were mechanically identical but separated by two doors). Henceforth, the fifth-gen sedans would bear the M3 name. That car had issues almost from the day I picked it up at the factory.On the heels of the E92, the fifth-gen M4 arrived in 2015 like a Teutonic Terminator chiseled, menacing, gorgeously muscled. ![]() ![]() I traded in a 2018 M40i with less than 17,000 miles on it. I live in West Virginia & the curvy mountainous road here make that a needed feature. I paid extra for the Adaptive M Suspension. The changes in the infotainment system, the touch screen display is larger, the Apple Carplay, the wireless charging. I added the additional safety features to include a head-up display, lane departure warning, lane keep assist, front and rear cross traffic alert, blind spot monitoring, adaptive cruise control, parallel park assist, and a surround-view parking camera system. The car already had the standard driver assistance features to include a rearview camera, front and rear parking sensors, driver drowsiness monitoring, forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, pedestrian detection, and traffic sign recognition. The pickup, the starting & stopping, the smoother transition in the changing of gears all made this the car I wanted. ![]() The turbocharged six-cylinder engine went from 382 HP to 355 horsepower, the suspension upgrades, the larger steering wheel was again in the 2020. I love my 2020 BMW X3 M40i! WOW! I was amazed in all the changes that were made in 2 years from my 2018 model. ![]()
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