What’s inside?
The cabin carries over the familiar, and already driver focused interior architecture from the 3 Series and the 4 Series, with M piping in a few sportier elements to go along with the character.
Trust M to lace your dashboard and innards with carbon-fiber.
A host of traditional BMW M equipment details including M door sill finishers, an M driver’s footrest, M gearshift lever, M-design circular instruments with white graphics, M leather steering wheel with chrome trim, color contrast stitching and electroplated-look shift paddles.
Leather adorned, thick-rimmed, M Sport three spoke steering feels great to hold.
Instrumentation is simple, clean, legible and fuss free- a true drivers’ car
M door sill finishers; try not getting them dirty
The trademark M Drive Selector lets you choose between automatic and manual (flappy paddle/selector lever) modes for the 7-speed DCT.
Center Console is carried over from the 3-Series and 4-Series; which isn’t a bad thing
The trademark iDrive Touch Controller (part of Navigation System Professional) enables the improved, 2014 iDrive system to be operated with a single hand.
The foot-well has ample space for your twitchy feet and the pedals are nicely spaced; we would have loved some drilled, aluminum pedals though- these don’t fit the character of the car much
The massive, M-logo adorned, sporty front seats take inspiration from bucket seats fitted in racing cars, featuring full-size single-piece back panel. With a flat construction, a low-set position, and high, width-adjustable bolsters, the front seats offer excellent support when the going gets fast and twisty.
Ingress to the M4 Coupe’s 2nd row is via putting the front seat’s huge back-rests down
While the M4’s seats were upholstered in black leather; we saw some beige on the M3’s seats and door pads. BMW Individual offers further customization options for the M3 and the M4
While the M3 will happily take a couple of your friends at the back, the M4’s back row however is strictly limited to midgets. In the M4, ingress to the rear isn’t much of a chore, with the motorized front seat leaning and sliding all the way to the front.
The M4’s second row: spare your bottom for the back seat of the M3 instead
There are a very few cars in the world which have a 480 liter boot and still wallop your behind from 0-100 km/hr in just 4.1 seconds. The M3 is one of them; the M4 comes close at 445 liters of boot.
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