BMW M3 Coupe Edition

What‘s it? BMW M3 Coupe Edition has enhanced the seminal two-door version of the performance icon, the M3 coupe, having a model known as Coupe Edition. It sports some new colours and body bits, some dark chrome treatments, a 10mm lower ride height, and also a series of subtle but telling interior changes that only enough to justify a special name. What’s it like? You’re referring to a compact car having a 420 bhp, 4. 0-litre V8 inside the nose, driving the rear wheels via a seven-speed paddle-shift gearbox. The coupe already has a number of advantages : an inferior frontal area compared to the saloon and less seating position, plus lower weight (fewer doors ) and less centre of gravity (courtesy of the carbon fibre roof that shaves 15kg from your equivalent steel structure ). Throw during this new Editon model’s 10mm lower ride height for which BMW primly calls “enhanced dynamic capability”, plus the undeniable fact that it may come equipped having a super-looking group of black 19-inch wheels, and you’d be in your rights to conclude that this is actually the best BMW M3 the strategies all. This make a difference is best confirmed on the circuit for example the Bedford Autodrome, and that is where we tested the M3 Coupe Edition during a BMW track day.

The car has true powerhouse performance, usable right as much as its 155 mph electronic limit, and also the howl from the V8, rev-limited at 8400 rpm, provides sound effects to match. The smooth, super-quick gearshifts from the seven-speed twin-clutch gearbox (a distinctly pricey option at £2500 ) result in the car much easier for many normal mortals to drive in anger, something you especially notice while you flick down three gears to pile into one among Bedford’s hairpins from 130 mph-plus through straight. The car turns brilliantly, throttle-steers beautifully, resists body roll alright and it is brakes are huge and fantastically effective at washing away speed without apparent effort. Does that coupe handle better than another BMW M3 Coupe versions? It’s arguable, given its slight chassis advantage. However it feels plenty like its siblings, too.

The M3 Coupe Edition powerslides in the limit of grip having a predictability that‘s flattering, entertaining, and when sparingly used, pretty damned fast upon the right circuit. For sheer predictability it shades most supercars, which are likely to convey more complicated mechanical layouts. Should I buy one? If you undertake, you’ll spend £60, 000 by time you will find the right suspension and gearbox, wheels and tyres. That’s 911 money, and also to some eyes it seems plenty as long as there’s there’s a BMW 320d two-door that shares the majority of its two-door shape. The secret for perceiving an M3’s value is driving it. Experience using the Coupe Edition on road and track and we’ll be astonished if this doesn’t strike you as something near the best expression of the compact rear-wheel-drive high performance car. To its mixture of high ability with accessibility to decent-but-ordinary drivers, no rival comes close.