And Kyle Ecob’s just pulled into the car park in his E46 M3, making us all go a bit gooey with nostalgia… Simon Grace has owned a string of BMWs and currently drives the definitive all-purpose performance car, Porsche’s 911 Turbo S. Michael Edwards just sold his previous-gen (F82) M4 and has a Porsche Taycan 4S on order. Now it’s time to see what three keen readers think of it. From early prototype drives through dogfights with a 911 on sun-dappled Alpine roads to a group test win (ahead of the AMG C63 S, Alfa Giulia QV and Audi RS4 Avant), M’s latest weapon has proved unstoppable. The G80/G82 M3/M4 Competition is, for our ‘money’, the best super-saloon/coupe on sale. The car doesn’t need it, and you’re paying financial and efficiency penalties for the privilege, but it’s like this: I can well imagine scenarios in which you’d wish you had it, but can’t picture a single one in which you’d regret choosing it. At a cool and damp Anglesey, the M4’s factory-fit track tyre option (a set of Michelin Cups) were a speed-killing, snap-oversteer-laden liability.Īs soon as an M4 with xDrive four-wheel drive arrived in the UK (new for this generation M3/M4), we went to meet it. At Bicester, the standard-fit Pirelli 4 Ss were sensational.
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We went on track, at Anglesey and at Bicester, experiences that helped underline the universal truth that, however gifted the car, tyres are the single most important component in achieving fast car happiness. We met a trio of CAR readers, gleefully blowing the socks off two of them (one played hard to get…). We went over to Lotus in Norfolk twice, the car mustering a small crowd at the marque’s petrolhead Hethel HQ each time.