Welcome to Tech in the Car! I'm Oliver and this is the new BMW M240i xDrive! now i videoed this
at the goodwood festival of speed last year i made a short which quite a lot of people have
watched so i thought i'd check one out and give you guys a little walk around a little
review of this car so this car aspect is about 50 000 pounds we go through some of the spec
in a second in terms of how it has 374 horsepower and it is a very very good looking 2 series now
some people weren't necessarily the biggest fan of the design of the new
face lifted 2 series but i have to say in this color in this gray paint it looks fantastic
and there are lots of interesting design features on this car which i think are worth pointing out
for example we've got the new design headlights different from the previous generation 2 series
and they've got little details inside which look great full led headlights and then we've
got the big black vents down here which let air into the car because this has got a three liter
engine and so it needs lots of air pass through into there and then we've got our traditional
style bmw vents i actually really like the new design of the vents on the m3 and m4 but this
does look good on the two series i'm not sure how they would have looked otherwise what about the
back of this new m240l this is the xdrive model as well so it's got four wheel drive you've got
a very compact rear effect for the car we've got the diffuser down here we've got two oval
kind of hexagon kind of shaped exhaust pipes we're not really sure what shape they are but they look
good and then we've got these really sculpted rear lights again new to this new version of two series
which kind of have like a different level to them which i think looks really good on the back
at the side of the car there are also some interesting design features two we have the
traditional bmw m mirrors where you well i can't get my fish through here i need a smaller fist
but you've got the same traditional cut out there which is very cool it's very aerodynamic you've
got these side skirts which are quite aggressive and black contrast and then we've got the door
handles which again frameless coupe windows which add to the high quality look of this car
and of course we have two seats in the front and there is space in the back but it would be a very
tight fit you wouldn't want to carry passengers back there and i really like these alloy wheel
design i think they're one of the most attractive looking designs we've got red brake calipers as
well so here we are inside the m240i so this color by the way is called brooklyn gray on the outside
and then inside here we have a black with blue stitching blue is my favorite color you might have
guessed that if you watch the channel so you can see that blue stitching around here so this inside
is very much the new generation design of the bmw infotainment system from the three series and the
four series we've got a touchscreen wireless android auto and wireless carplay something
which lots of manufacturers are starting to put in and we've got wireless charging yes something
left out of the new audis there is wireless charging in this car too we've also got a
usb here as well two cup holders we've got like i said a very traditional bmw design in the middle
here we've got our start stop button we've got our scroll wheel so even though it is a touch screen
you still have the scroll wheel capabilities we've got our modes here sport comfort ecopro adaptive
suspension so we can adjust that as well this is a traditional very grippy very substantial bmw
m logo steering wheel which has got the ability to turn on the cruise control and the lane assist
and the other side got all your media buttons and then we've got our bmw digital drivers
display which has the same design as we've seen in other bmws which again looks really
good we've also got a head-up display on here and then just in general the quality like these
seats are fantastic they are very very similar to the m seats in the m2 and the m3 and the m4
they have loads of detail we've got the beautiful blue stitching here we've got thigh support we've
got the m logo doesn't look like it's light up in this car but it's there and they are very very
comfortable fully electric you can adjust them lumbar support as well there's lots of little
details in here which i really really like in the back there isn't a lot of space as i said before
you can fit people in there for a short journey but if you try and fit adults in there i think
they're going to be a bit squashed one thing that bmw have kept is the shortcut buttons
on the bottom of the infotainment system which let you assign shortcuts to different functions
that's something which bmw unique in doing and it's an interesting way of doing things so i like
that the other thing too I like is i like the fact there's a button here for your intelligent
safety and assist systems you can press it and you can see all of them on the screen that's
really really useful to have one button to get to that what is the M240i like to drive and how does
it maybe compare to the RS3 which is probably its nearest competitor until the new M2 comes along
let's take it with a spin not a literal spin because i drive very carefully but let's take
it out on the road here at millbrook on the very very cool high speed circuit and also on the
hill route and see how it is how does this car the new m240i compare to other cars and how does
it handle let's find out on the millbrook test track so this is where cars come to get tested
actually they also shot the section of casino royale from james bond where their aston martin
flipped over on this very track right here so i'm not going to be flipping this car don't worry
if you're from bmw don't worry i'm going to drive this very responsibly like i should do but let's
just see how is the handle so this is obviously a coupe it's got the sporty side in mind it's got a
lot of performance with over 370 horsepower so this car is very much designed with performance
in mind as well as great looks because the outside of this car looks fantastic so as i come around
the sharp pin here i definitely feel like i've got a lot of grip i can feel the four-wheel drive
system working i feel very planted but what about if i put it into m mode what happens if i turn it
into a different mode because right now we're in the normal mode or in comfort if we go into
sports and now in sport dials change the exhaust flaps open up and i immediately feel that power
and that acceleration is much much much more urgent much much more in your face
which is very very good and we're approaching the bit here where that aston martin was flipped over
in casino royale here we go we're coming up here and you know i like this i love the fact
you've got a real sound coming out of the back there there's no noise there or maybe a very
very very small almost no i don't think there's any noise pumped into here i have to be honest
with you it sounds like it's all coming from the exhaust and that sounds really good and as i'm
driving around here it's very nimble it's very sharp it's turning in he's making a great noise
this very very comfortable to hold steering wheel which is you know traditional bmw
doing it i'm in automatic mode now i'm not using the manual gear shifters because you know the
truth is i prefer to drive an auto mode i know that will upset some people if you want to drive
in manual i was having a chat with joe achilles earlier i said he loves his m2 because he's got
a manual transmission well you know i prefer automatic i'm not one who likes to go manual
but i know for the true drivers out there they love the they love the manual so very very sharp
very very easy to drive in automatic mode i like this a lot let's go on to the high speed ball now
and see what the car is like at speed we're at the high speed bowl now at millbrook so we're
about to go on to here making sure there's nobody in front of us letting that mercedes in front go
...and here we go...
So now we're driving on a high-speed bowl we can go fast on here this is a huge
circular bowl for high-speed testing we're doing
90 miles an hour you know there's not a lot of road noise, to be honest I mean wind noise I
should say even though we're now going at 100 miles an hour it doesn't feel like there's a
lot of road noise which I really really like I think that's good definitely a benefit to have
yeah you know the steering is very precise I've got a nice noise coming on out of the back here
you wouldn't obviously drive this fast on a road like ever let's be honest but hopefully
you wouldn't some people might I wouldn't so we're going along here and yeah and you know it's great
at high speeds it's fun to drive so that is the bmw m240i x drive coupe with four wheel drive
with a great noise from the back of the car with great handling very comfortable very stylish I
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