Do you ever wonder what makes the m3 the best sports sedan by which all others
are judged? Do you wonder why the m4 is also equally
good? Well we have an m4 here today, and before we get started on this review of
the 2018 M4, I want to thank the great folks at BMW Edmonton, who gave us the
opportunity to test drive this car today, and share with you our feelings about
this great new sports car. So let's start with the quality of fit and finish in a
BMW and this m4 for example. A lot of cars out there they sort of fake it. Yeah
well there's a lot of cars nowadays adding little touches of say things like
carbon fiber and little other little tweaks and accents. At the end of the day,
these are really indicators to a real quality car brand, and BMW in my mind is
leading the charge in quality finishing. We start in the front end here, as an
example on a lot of these cars you can get the partial carbon fiber in these
packages, on the M cars like this one, you can also get a complete carbon
spoiler on there, but that is one thing that is really really beefs up the front
end of these M cars. Another thing is the BMW adaptive LED headlights,
they've been restyled here, and of course they're very low profile, very menacing
at night time. When you're looking at these straight on, they've been profiled
so they're a lot sharper looking, but still maintain the overall BMW trademark
look with the double rings, beautiful headlights, the LEDs are spectacular, and
the latest and the greatest of any manufacturer. And also like BMW, they're
never stopping, looking at the next best thing,
setting some trends, colors like this, very unconventional. You don't see colors
like this anywhere else, this color called signal green, in the BMW world a
newer flavor here in the M series of cars. You know it's not uncommon to
find white cars in black and silver, and they're pretty common and mainstream but
it's nice to see a resurgence of interesting colors like this, like this
color that BMW put in the 2018 m4. Then we have these
awesome wheels. These wheels were actually pulled from the M4 GTS, their
special car that was built by BMW to basically take and sell to customers who
just wanted to enjoy a true track machine. The GTS is track, through and
through, and this car at least borrowed the wheels without having to sacrifice
the comfort for everyday driving. More examples of absolutely outlandish
finishing in the BMW M4, you have these spectacular mirrors, they really they
don't really connect which is a bit of an odd design theme, but it does look
sharp and it's it's very aggressive looking, and even more to the fact it has
the carbon fiber finishing, more examples of the high quality touches in these
cars. A carbon fiber roof to keep the overall weight down at the top-end,
allowing these cars for better handling, and of course BMW always adds those
little touches like this beautiful carbon fiber lip, gives
a little bit of additional down force at the back end. We all know
that these cars are a little lighter in the tail, and so at higher speeds this
doesn't hurt to have in your place as well, of course just additional quality
finishing that you would expect from BMW. For 2018, we've actually got these
updated taillights, which tells you that you know and anybody else who knows the
BMWs that you've got the next generation, you've got sort of the next greatest
thing as well you've got this beautiful carbon fiber wrapped exhaust system, just
adds to the overall quality touch and flavor, and a total carbon fiber splitter
that runs along the bottom of the car. This car is just pouring and oozing in
carbon fibre and high-quality finishing. What I've also really loved about the m4
and the m3 series, is just the fact that the interior is also bathed in beautiful
parts and finishing. Like we've got carbon fiber in this car, we've got lots
of leather, and new for 2018 actually is the leather top, actually has double
stitching, so it has a little bit more element of you know premium finishing,
even though you don't necessarily put your finger on it. The entire interior
has those little details, they just make you feel like this thing is
just a million bucks. Carbon-fiber, soft touch controls, leather
from end to end, we've got on the top ceiling, we've got a very stark interior,
but that's okay because we've got a carbon-fiber roof, but the beauty with
these m4 is is you can often out to fit them with some really spectacular
interior colors. This one here is actually primarily black with carbon
fiber, but you can also get a lot of interesting colors, whites and reds and
browns, a lot of really neat interior colors in these cars. So that is also why
BMW, so customizable. So what's another great thing, on top of the the stellar
interior finishing is actually the stellar performance, and the m3 and m4
are not new to performance driving, and so I just want to talk about that a
little bit. So what do we have here, we have a three liter inline twin-turbo
6-cylinder engine that produces 425 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque,
which propel this car
from zero to 60 miles per hour, of course, in about four seconds flat
For the standard m4, is way more than enough because it's a explosive power
delivery already.
The steering is razor-sharp, it handles the corners crisply,
the turning is fast, and this car is about as agile as you can ask for
an on race car. Of course it's equipped with a 7-speed DCT transmission, which is
lightning fast and delivers explosive acceleration, an amazing level of
thrust when you really get into it on the freeway on-ramps, or on the track, or
on the highway. When you're trying to get up to speed, it has immense acceleration
for a car with this sort of horsepower. As a matter of fact I would almost put
this car, I drove a car with almost identical specifications, a Porsche 911
Carrera S, and it has very similar specs. A 3 liter turbo 6, and this car in my
mind feels more impressive part of the reason is because the back end tends to
get a little loose on this car when you're accelerating hard, particularly on
cool days, but it is actually a very enjoyable car to drive, and maintains
full composure as you're just accelerating out, your foot to the pedal.
Now if we're talking about that zero to sixty times of these cars. How about four
seconds flat? Is that enough for you? How about a top speed of 155 miles per hour,
but did you know that that's actually limited, we know that this car is capable
of doing closer to 190 miles per hour, but of course BMW keeps things on the
safe and keeps it at 155 for your, you know, your garden-variety m4 cars. Now
that being said this thing is as fast as just about anything else out there, and
not only is it fast, BMW has a certain way to they balance their cars that make
it handle as well - the brakes are phenomenal, the chassis can accommodate
the high speeds that this thing is capable of, but again it breaks in time,
it handles well, and everything is just well balanced. If there's one thing I can
say about these M4s and M3s, is the balance, its impeccable. Now let's talk
about some of the interior electronics and the techie features. Of course we
don't have a sunroof in this car, because it has a carbon fiber
roof, but we do have some other cool features. Now this has one of the more
recent iDrive systems, but it's not the most recent like you find in the M5s. Now
this latest m4 actually has for the m4, it's the latest system it's not as new
and up-to-date as you find in the m5, in the 2018 m5, which actually has gesture
controls, where you can operate it remotely without even touching. This one
here has a soft touch on some of the controls that you don't have to be that
deliberate, so the controls are very nice, the system is very intuitive, and the
iDrive system in general works very, very well. The GPS or navigation is
exceptionally clear and the whole system is vastly better than the previous gen,
and I compare it to my e60 m5, even my e70 x5, which look barbaric and old and
vintage compared to this system. So it's much improved over the
older stuff BMWs done, a lot of great work on that front. Now as well stop/
start push buttons. We've got controls to individually customize your speed of
your steering respons,e you can adjust your throttle response, you can also
adjust your dampers which give you a stiffer or softer ride for more comfort,
or otherwise being the 2018 m4, you would expect the dashboard to be more of the
up to date, if you look at the m5 that I recently drove, the m5 actually has a
full digital display. Now digital tachometer, digital speedometer, this car
is a conventional analog gauge, you don't feel like you're missing anything though,
these gauges are very easy to read, they're crisp, and you still have enough
electronics involved there to kind of make it still very, very modern.
You have the Lane Assist program here, you have you know some of those other
safety nannies that help you keep the car between the lanes, keep you from
running into somebody that might be driving in your blind spot, you have a
lot of these different features to keep you safe in this car as well. Now because
we're going to coupe, the m4 being a coup,e of course you would expect access
to the rear being very very poor but actuality it's quite easy, you've got a
simple lever to pull a seat forward, and then an electronic button that powers
the seat either forward or backwards, and actually gaining access to the rear
of the car is very simple. So in terms of the overall M line up, of the
M cars, you've got the M ones, twos, threes, fours, fives, and of course the X series
of cars that are M versions as well. I have to actually tell you in my opinion
this is probably the sportiest overall driving experience in the BMW lineup. In
my opinion it balances horsepower and that sheer grunt force with sportiness
and not overdoing it. You get in the m5 and it has just a criminal amount of
acceleration, the car is immensely fast,
very, very quick, and has way more power than most people would need. That being
said it's a spectacular car and the m5 is of course the top-end
of the M cars, is a great machine. All the way around, the M4 is truly the most
livable, well-manicured, the best sorted sports car that BMW has today, and I
would honestly say this car leaves nothing for want, and as a matter of fact
provides you with all the sporting experience, the compromise of comfort,
practicality, and reliability so I can't praise this car enough. I love it and I
want to again thank the boys at BMW Edmonton for providing this car in this
experience. Now this is just the beginning of the series, of course, of
detailed videos that I'm going to be providing on this M4. I hope you follow
along, make sure you subscribe because that's going to give you all the latest
and the greatest. Now if we're talking about how do I rate this car overall
performance wise, one to ten? How does this car rank? I would say this car ranks
at about a seven. Why, well because overall it has absolutely explosive
performance, the handling is crisp, the brakes are strong, and don't fade under
any conditions that I experienced, and essentially there's really nothing this
car can't do. Of course as we talked about you know, reaching those numbers
around nine and ten of course, we're talking hyper car territory.
Now what about style? Where do I rank this car for style? Well that's where I
think BMW has always done really well. They've always been a little dialed back
in the sense of you know not trying to overdo the looks and the styling. They
don't want to overdo it, but they always have enough of those healthy touches of
quality finishing, the flared fenders in this case, because it's an M car,
oversized wheels, the updated LED systems, and carbon fiber, and leather trim, and
the overall stance, and the elevation proportions of the wheels to the car, and
the spoiler, and the overall height and rake of the car in general, make this car
very stylish and I would say this for me,
this m4 rates at about an 8 out of 10 in the style department. Its street presence
is phenomenal, it has an absolute awesome look, it gets lots of looks from people
and thumbs up in the time I've been driving it, lots of people have given
thumbs up and comments and nods. So I must say, style it gets a very, very good
rating of 8. So that my third rating of practicality, where does the m4 rate? Well
there's some very practical aspects of the car,
for example the comfort, you've got the heated seats, and you've got access to
the rear, which is actually quite good for a two-door car, you've got a very
large trunk that's very practical, as well a lot of features that make this
car easy to drive, and of course the fact that it's a DCT, it's easy to toggle it
to automatic mode, that as well makes it very daily usable and agreeable. As
an owner that has to get in and drive it every day, seating position is quite
comfortable, the doors swing wide, because it's a two-door, access in general is
very easy in the car. It's quiet when you want it to be, sporty
when you don't, but at the end of the day or the things that work against it and
sense of practicality that it's low, and it's rear-wheel drive. BMW does a
lot of really great things with your traction control systems, so I have
little doubt that when you put on a proper set of skins, winter tires,
dedicated rims and tires, you'll have no issue driving this car in the winter time,
and slick conditions, because these cars always do really well there, but that
still leaves the overall ride height very low, and the front end of course has
a very sharp aggressive and low mounted spoiler which will likely tend to plow
some snow at times so that coupled with the rear-wheel drive
sort of take some points off of the practicality scale overall. I would count
this car rate it at a six on the practicality level, the reason it got
that, much is like I said because it's comfortable it's easy to use every day,
but at the end of the day this really is a sports car and operates like that, and
for that reason there are some sacrifices like ride height and overall
usability for poor Road conditions. So I really hope you enjoyed that review
everybody. This is an absolutely magnificent car and again I can't thank
those folks at Edmonton BMW enough. You make sure you check out their website,
they have a lot of great cars like this, you'll notice this particular color is
unique, they have a lot of those unique colors, so make sure you give them a look,
and as well, make sure you subscribe to the channel, and I'd love to see you guys
on the next one. We'll see you real soon. Bye bye.