DO you keep in mind that cool child at school that everybody beloved, who had cool toys, acquired good grades and was superior at sport? Now think about that child requested you over to play with their coolest toy, and that toy was the 2021 BMW M4 Competitors.
Now think about that child’s home was the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit. You don’t know for those who’ll get the possibility to play once more so you already know you’re going to benefit from it. However at first, you’re a bit hesitant, taking all of it in, simply by wanting round.
You poke and prod and discover as a lot as you possibly can with out getting observed. It seems completely different than what you will have seen in footage on the pc or in magazines. It’s then that you just keep in mind you have been instructed to by no means choose a guide by its cowl.
In most colors, ‘that grille’ is barely even noticeable and boy, it’s not going to cease you from having fun with every little thing the 2021 BMW M4 Competitors has to supply. Now although, is the time you will have been ready for.
You, the BMW M4 and one of many world’s nice racetracks, Phillip Island. Of all of the toys and playgrounds to take pleasure in them, that is proper up there. Made all the higher due to a cracking day of clear skies and heat climate, good for our play time.
To say it lives as much as expectations is an understatement. It’s all you could possibly have hoped for and extra. It’s full of 353kW and 550Nm within the M4, and 375kW and 650Nm within the M4 Competitors we examined.
You’d be forgiven for considering all that energy would possibly make playtime a bit nerve-racking for concern of it getting away from you. That isn’t the case. It’s planted and predictable.
Its M-specific chassis and additional bracing parts afford the M4 an especially stiff physique construction, which allows it a really excessive stage of capacity when on the observe. Adaptive M suspension with Consolation, Sport and Sport Plus modes assist to tailor the play expertise.
Play is the operative phrase right here, as a result of it doesn’t matter what mode you select, the M4 will go away you with an enormous smile in your face.
Whether or not it’s the sheer relentless push of the three.0-litre 6-cylinder turbo engine, or the massive stage of grip it supplies at full tilt via any considered one of Phillip Island’s picturesque sweeping corners, you’ll be onerous pressed to leap out of the M4 with out an emoji fashion smile.
Pricing begins from $149,900 for the M4, with the M4 Competitors asking a $10k premium on prime of that. For a further $26,000, BMW have created the M Carbon Bundle (which we undoubtedly advocate) for the M3 and M4 fashions.
This combines the M Carbon ceramic brakes, M Carbon bucket seats and M Carbon exterior bundle at a big low cost over the price of shopping for every individually.
We’ve to say, the 2021 BMW M4 Competitors greater than lives as much as the hype. And one of the best bit is, the cool youngsters at BMW are letting us borrow the M4 for per week quickly.
Our check automobile was offered by BMW Australia as a part of a track-based launch occasion on the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit. To seek out out extra in regards to the 2021 BMW M4 Competitors, contact your native BMW vendor.