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Lack of anything else not on the options list is disappointing.
2014 BMW M3/M4, will it be tri turbo or not? Answer is sort of
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Need a small loan of £60k.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...90uh&make=bmw&sort=pricedesc&page=1&logcode=p
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M4 GT4 coming to GT4 Class racing in 2018
M4 Powertrain
M4 GTS Carbon Fibre Bonnet
Carbon Fibre doors
Motorsport Splitter, Wing and Exhaust
Interior seats, pedals etc. from M6 GT3
Sits in Between M235i Racing and M6 GT3
Munich (DE), 28th July 2016. BMW Motorsport will send the successor of the popular BMW M3 GT4 into action as of the 2018 season: the BMW M4 GT4. This close-to-production car based on the BMW M4 Coupé adds a competitive entrant in the growing GT4 sector to BMW Motorsport's range of products and continues the long and successful tradition of BMW in customer racing. The newly developed GT sports car will complete its first tests at the end of 2016 so that customers will have a technically perfected car available for the start of the 2018 season.
"The GT4 category is currently experiencing a boom," said BMW Motorsport Director Jens Marquardt. "It offers affordable motorsport with cars of technical high-quality and, therefore, attracts a wide target audience. We see enormous potential around the world for privateer BMW teams for whom the BMW M4 GT4 is an option. Developing a classic customer racing car such as this and offering it to privateer teams has always been one of BMW Motorsport's core competencies. This also was the case with the predecessor model, the BMW M3 GT4, which is still in action in international race series today. The BMW M4 Coupé provides the ideal basis for our new GT4 model. This is a strong base for our engineers to close the gap between our customer racing spearhead, the BMW M6 GT3, and the BMW M235i Racing for newcomers with a car that is extremely sporty in its production version. The BMW M4 GT4 is designed perfectly for simple use by privateer teams, who can celebrate successes around the world as ambassadors for BMW Motorsport with this model."
Top quality and safety standards, excellent driveability and low running costs were the premises at the start of the development of the BMW M4 GT4. The entire drivetrain, including electronics, will be taken from the BMW M4 Coupé. The carbon bonnet comes from the BMW M4 GTS, and the BMW M4 GT4 has carbon-fibre doors, a special motorsport front splitter and rear wing, as well as a racing exhaust system. The seats, the brakes and the pedal box use solutions carried over from the BMW M6 GT3.
The offer of contesting races in existing GT4 classes with the BMW M4 GT4 is open to customer teams around the world. Germany, Europe, North America and Asia all have ideal conditions for the car. BMW Motorsport will also use the new challenger to bring talented young drivers closer to the GT3 class as part of the BMW Motorsport Junior Programme. The first cars are due to be delivered to customers in the second half of 2017. The first possible race appearance will be the 24 Hours of Dubai (AE) in January 2018.
"The GT4 category is currently experiencing a boom," said BMW Motorsport Director Jens Marquardt. "It offers affordable motorsport with cars of technical high-quality and, therefore, attracts a wide target audience. We see enormous potential around the world for privateer BMW teams for whom the BMW M4 GT4 is an option. Developing a classic customer racing car such as this and offering it to privateer teams has always been one of BMW Motorsport's core competencies. This also was the case with the predecessor model, the BMW M3 GT4, which is still in action in international race series today. The BMW M4 Coupé provides the ideal basis for our new GT4 model. This is a strong base for our engineers to close the gap between our customer racing spearhead, the BMW M6 GT3, and the BMW M235i Racing for newcomers with a car that is extremely sporty in its production version. The BMW M4 GT4 is designed perfectly for simple use by privateer teams, who can celebrate successes around the world as ambassadors for BMW Motorsport with this model."
Top quality and safety standards, excellent driveability and low running costs were the premises at the start of the development of the BMW M4 GT4. The entire drivetrain, including electronics, will be taken from the BMW M4 Coupé. The carbon bonnet comes from the BMW M4 GTS, and the BMW M4 GT4 has carbon-fibre doors, a special motorsport front splitter and rear wing, as well as a racing exhaust system. The seats, the brakes and the pedal box use solutions carried over from the BMW M6 GT3.
The offer of contesting races in existing GT4 classes with the BMW M4 GT4 is open to customer teams around the world. Germany, Europe, North America and Asia all have ideal conditions for the car. BMW Motorsport will also use the new challenger to bring talented young drivers closer to the GT3 class as part of the BMW Motorsport Junior Programme. The first cars are due to be delivered to customers in the second half of 2017. The first possible race appearance will be the 24 Hours of Dubai (AE) in January 2018.
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Reported 2017 facelift seen sitting with GTS bits on it.
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/2017-bmw-m4-inherit-gts-parts
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/2017-bmw-m4-inherit-gts-parts
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http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/0982586B92A67070CA25805100813E1A
BMW Group Australia is planning to secure a share of the 200 ultra-exclusive M4 DTM Champion Editions that have been created to celebrate the German car-maker’s victory in the 2016 German touring car championship (DTM).
The extremely limited M4 variant is yet to be confirmed for Australia but BMW is remaining optimistic that it can snare even a handful of examples, and has already earmarked potential customers for the car.
Following an internal announcement that the car would be unveiled, BMW Group Australia head of product planning Shawn Ticehurst said that the company had approached the 25 customers that had already ordered the mechanically identical M4 GTS and offered an alternative should the Champion Edition come Down Under.
“What we’ve done, knowing the announcement was going to be made, we went out yesterday to all the 25 customers of M4 GTS to let them know this car was coming and if they wanted to have first dibs, we would offer one to them.” he said.
BMW Australia bargained hard for the allocation of the mighty M4 GTS following its announcement a year ago, but it is unlikely as many DTM editions will make it here, if any, with just 200 of the Champion Edition offered worldwide versus the 700 global limit for the GTS.
Mr Ticehurst explained that it was difficult to gauge the potential for the exclusive 4 Series-based offering in Australia’s performance-loving market, but the response of the 25 GTS customers would offer a valuable perspective.
“They might all say no we are happy with our GTS,” he said.
“That will give us a feel for this market too. We wanted to have that conversation with those customers first and then we will go from there.”
While Mr Ticehurst said the car would be a good fit for Australia, he also highlighted the very limited production.
“We are certainly keen on the car and it’s only just been announced and they kept a lot of this under wraps. A car like that, if it’s available here we would love to get it but there’s 200 hundred worldwide.
“Knowing how passionate Australians are for M, we are up there in the best in the world for Ms as a total percentage of BMW sales, it would be nice have it here”.
Like the 25 examples of the M4 GTS already allocated for Australia, the M4 DTM Champion Edition is powered by a grenade version of the M4 3.0-litre turbocharged straight-six under the ‘standard’ M4 and M3, with a massive 368kW and 600Nm on tap.
Performance figures are also identical with the zero to 100km/h dash taking just 3.8 seconds, a top speed of 305km/h and a combined fuel consumption of 8.5 litres per 100km.
DTM versions are set apart from the less exclusive GTS with an Alpine white paint job highlighted by the classic light blue, dark blue and red M-colours allied in stripes along the waist-line, sills and along the carbon-fibre roof and extends through the bootlid.
The carbon-fibre front bumper and air-dam has been slightly re-engineered for the DTM with additional lower vent splitter and aero fins applied in front of the wheel arches for extra downforce.
Bonnet, roof, instrument panel, mirror caps, side sill inserts, rear diffuser and the large fixed rear wing are also constructed with the exotic composite material.
Inside, the interior is modified for a more racing feel in the same fashion as the GTS with a pair of carbon-fibre Alcantara and leather-upholstered bucket seats, six-point harnesses with more conventional M-coloured seatbelts, while the roll-bar that replaces the rear seats is coloured white in place of the GTS’ orange bar.
Its titanium exhaust system is a carry over from the GTS as are the wheels which measure 19-inches on the front axle and 20-inch at the rear, albeit coloured in matte grey. Rubber is courtesy of Michelin in the form of track-developed Pilot Sport Cup 2.
The star-spoke wheels house carbon-ceramic brakes, while suspension is coil-over in all corners with three adjustment settings.
If the model is given the green light for Australia, it is likely to carry a pricetag as hefty as the M4 GTS, which was on offer for $295,000 before on-road costs.
In Germany, lucky DTM customers will be asked €148,500 ($A211,000) but the Australian price is expected to align more closely with the GTS cost if it is confirmed.
BMW has not said if the DTM will be offered with the carbon-fibre wheel option, which blew the price of the GTS out to $316,560 – the most expensive model in the BMW line-up.
The DTM Champion Edition was rolled out after Marco Wittmann took the DTM driver’s championship at the wheel of his BMW Team RGM M4 DTM race-car.
Audi and Mercedes-Benz battled it out on the track with BMW, with Audi eventually claiming the constructors championship in the final race on October 16.
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It's still weird. If they wanted two extra doors on the 4-Series, they should buy the 3-Series (which I was under the impression of that being the 4-door version of the 4-series).
Doesn't it also defeat the purspose of the 4Series existing? Could they not have just kept them as 3-Series for both?
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No. Due to how indifferent the 3 series looks compared to the 4.
I'd hardly say they look hugely different. The E36 and E46 prior to its LCI had subtle differences between the 2 and 4 doors, whereas the E9x range had two different fronts altogether from the off. The difference between the 3 and 4 series is much closer to the former generations; variations on a common theme.
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The prices are slightly different too. I can't remember the term for it, but it's a way of getting those who might buy a 3 series to spend a bit more (if they can afford to) and get the more "prestigious" or "desirable" model instead...
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The straight-six's curse is to forever be associated with Diesel fuel!
The rules around NVH and "emissions" get so tight that to pass you have to start re-engineering parts like the valve cover or water pump shroud etc. because the exhaust or intake is already far quieter than any mechanical source of noise, especially at idle. And it's the mechanical noises that sound Diesel-y, particularly in a straight-six due to its popularity for use with that fuel (it's a great choice for large displacement, slow speed engines).
That, coupled with the rolling combustion noise resonating from end to end of the block, really evokes those old Diesels - the start-up sound for the E46 M3s in GT5 / GT6 are great examples. All that active "noise enhancement" doesn't seem so silly now.
As a further example, Ducati had to add several pounds to the crankcases of its 959 Panigale to get it to pass Euro IV recently, other bike manufacturers have had to look at things like the footpegs and heel guards to reduce noise!
The universal rule still applies: stick a pipe and filter on it and all's well
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So they've changed the headlights? Is that it?
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True but the 4 series and 6 Gran coupes are beauties, cant understand how anyone would buy a 3 series over a 4 series Gran coupe.
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No, don't you see? There's a slight difference in the lower edge of the bumper, and the odd creases around the corner intakes are angled slightly more on the 4-series. And there's the ugly little vent behind the front wheels on the "premium" car. Jeeeeez.
