hi everyone matt watson here from car
wow so i am sat
in the new bmw m2
cs next to me is a mercedes amg
a45s and next to that an audi
rs3 sportback and of course we're gonna
have a drag race
so let me tell you about this car it is
the most exciting
m car for a long time as far as i'm
concerned you basically got an m2
which i love and they've only gone and
stuck the engine
from the m4 competition in it so it's
got 450 horsepower
and 550 newton meters of torque this one
has a seven speed dual clutch automatic
gearbox it's got loads of other upgrades
as well you've got column fiber bonnet
copper fiber roof some special wheels
it's all rather lovely it's blowing
expensive
75 000 pounds for this car with the
automatic gearbox
actually this one with options because
it's got the carbon ceramic brakes
83 grand for an m2
what on earth is it made out of gold
what's going on some of the facts on
this car it weighs in at 1 572 kilos and
of course being a bmw
it's rear-wheel drive that mercedes it's
a lot cheaper
whoever thought that a 57 000 pounds pot
hatch was going to be ever described
as being cheaper but it is there you go
it's also got a smaller engine
a two liter turbo rather than the three
liter twin turbo on this car
still pumps out a lot of power though
421 horsepower
and 500 newton meters of torque it
drives all four wheels though
for an eight-speed dual clutch automatic
gearbox it's a bit heavier than this
it's 1630 kilos that is a blooming fast
car
now moving on to the rs3 you see you've
got a bit of a story to tell with that
car the rs3 isn't on sale anymore
so that one is actually a 2016 car it's
been lent to us by
a viewer so that card cost you 32 000
pounds if you bought it now and
he's had some things done to it he spent
two grand on a tune
intercooler intake a gearbox remap and
an engine remap
and the engine now puts out 450
horsepower so the same as this car
it has 750 newton meters of torque
which is a lot of talk more torque
than even i've got now
it's got seven speed dual clutch
automatic gearbox four wheel drive of
course
and a beautiful sounding 2.5 liter five
cylinder turbo
speaking of which let's do the
obligatory sound check
so audi rs3 can you rev your engine a
bit please mate so we can just enjoy
its tone
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that is super loud part of the reason
for that though is the fact that
it's got the audi sports exhaust fitted
to it but it's had a d
cat and of course being a 2016 model
there is no petrol particulate filter to
mute the noise either
let's have a listen to the mercedes
i just double check that the mercedes
was in sports mode
yeah it's in race i've got the sport
exhaust on didn't sound great did it
i think the man summed up perfectly if
he did my car
i love the fact that bmw's let your rev
all the way up
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oh yeah when he's stationary no soft
limiter
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no we need to get on with the race don't
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be thinking wait a minute this is not
fair you've got a tuned
audi rs3 against two stock cars well
we've raced the rs3 against the a45
already
and the a45 just beats it over and over
again so we wanted to give the mercedes
some stiffer competition that's why the
tune car's there
now before we race we're gonna do the
obligatory warming up of the tyres so
let's start off with that audi go on
then audi warm up your tyres and try to
slide if you can
[Applause]
oh yes that's definitely getting the
outside
front tyre warm that's it
is given up already however that
mercedes has a very clever drift mode
where it
can somehow slide even though it's a
four-wheel drive car
with a front-wheel drive bias but watch
this
that is awesome all right stop it
stop it it's my turn
yeah he'll do it
i freaking love being dubious with this
right i'm going to win this for she's
i'm at a slight disadvantage here
because bmw's launch control system only
works when the stability control is
completely off
which means that the wheels will spin up
i don't have any help at all now i can
dial down the revs a bit
using the cruise control button but
those guys they can launch with
stability on to help manage the power a
little bit so this is all down to me
and my skill or lack thereof so
hopefully i'm not going to [ __ ] this up
oh the a45 got a better start then
can i haul it back
come on bmw
on
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you little beauty
i'm gonna take the audi
[Music]
that is a photo finish
so then what exactly happened
well the tune audi crossed the line just
ahead of the bmw
but both completed the standing quarter
mile in 12.0 seconds
the mercedes came last crossing the line
in 12.1 seconds
which is still a very quick time
interesting thing about that drag race
is that rs3
i think has really benefited from that
gearbox tune one of the problems with
the very later versions of the rs3
the post facelift was that andy seemed
to like kind of
mute it slightly in first gear for the
launch it didn't launch as hard
as the pre-face lifted cars and so the
times were never quite as good as they
used to be
that though just boom it was like back
to the good old days
anyway next challenge now we're gonna
have a rolling race
from 50 miles an hour the car's just in
comfort setting this one is in
efficient mode who's gonna drive the
m2cs
in a vision mode ever let's do it
three two one go
floor it come on well that kicked out
brilliantly
gearbox to this is epic i thought that
rs3 with the gearbox
remap would kick down quicker but
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this is game over
does this have a limited top speed
let's do 160.
it doesn't look like the top speed isn't
oh there it is
right i was too far ahead to have any
idea what happened
with you two guys so mercedes what
happened my gearbox was better in that
situation
and i kind of took off first but nick
was definitely creeping back in the rs3
there
giving off roomie would just definitely
come through so the gearbox remap didn't
seem to help in kickdown then no
no not at all it still took a while to
kick down i think it's just when it
bangs through the up shift that's where
it really comes good but i was pulling
on the a45 and i think at around 160
mile an hour
that's when this thing came into its
zone and started to creep ahead
we're going to do the rolling race again
but this time the car is in a sportier
setting
and locked in third gear in manual mode
so here we go
three two one go
oh the pickup's wicked but it's not much
different at the moment between me
and the a45 but no
[Music]
yes
it's the same story
this engine is epic
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now they've given the m2 the fully tuned
n4 competition engine it's just improved
it so much
the m2 competition with the d-tune
version of the
m4 engine was good the original m2 with
the
not proper m engine was good but
it wasn't quick enough this is the daddy
i love it it's a lot of money though in
it but there's a lot of performance
so mercedes what happened that time well
much
more evenly might start time when
gearboxes weren't involved but again
the rs3 started to pull away this time
they're probably around 130 540 miles an
hour now then
time for the brake test we're going to
cruise along 70 miles an hour
when we reach the line into a full
emergency stop see which
car stops in the shortest distance this
has
carbon ceramic brakes they're a six
grand option
i'm going to put this down because here
comes the line here we go line
this is so close i can't call it i ate
it when i have to get out the blooming
car
bear with me freaking no idea
okay i have a result for you
so so so close but i think the order is
this
the mercedes one followed by the iod and
last in the break test
was the bmw but we are just talking
centimeters difference
between them still overall really
impressed with this car those are two
great hot hatches and
probably for covering ground out on an
unfamiliar road you'll be quicker than
those but this thing
on a track on a roadie used to feel man
i just
love it right down to the alcantara
steering wheel which i'm now getting
all greasy from my sweaty palms anyway i
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next time
yeah all good all good
always do that manual handbrakes good
for handbrake turns
not so good for idiots