Some raised concern of the notion of an all-wheel drive M4, but it might just be the pick of the lineup...
was at best underwhelming – it had barely more charisma than the effective, but otherwise pretty dull B58 it’s based on. After a few years of constant tweaking, though, the engine has become a real firecracker, with more urgency and quicker responses. We already know the engine itself is pretty clever , but what the numbers don’t relay is the explosive top end, or the fact that once spooled up, the turbos deliver such an incredible punch it feels almost preposterous.
Power is then delivered to the wheels by what must be one of the best high-performance all-wheel-drive systems in the business right now. The standard M4 rear-wheel drive already does a pretty great job of containing and channelling the torque via its complicated electronically controlled rear differential and traction control systems, but the xDrive system only builds on this supernatural ability to convert power to traction.
The cumulative effect is that the M4 xDrive doesn’t feel all-wheel drive, rather rear drive with endless traction. There’s none of a’s torque shuffling, or the hyper-agile feeling of a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, those cars feeling all-wheel drive without the understeer. Instead this feels like a BMW, the rear end loading consistently until it reaches a peak, only to then gently bleed power up to the front wheels.
There is one place where the car’s weight does reveal itself and that’s under braking. It’s not that the brakes are underpowered , but if you get the M4 out of shape under braking, that’s when the reality of 1850kg worth of car and driver becomes most noticeable. But it’s only under extreme circumstances that the M4 xDrive’s superhero costume reveals the character underneath, and what is under there is more Henry Cavill than Jonathan Ross.
So to the sceptics who refuse to acknowledge an M-car that doesn’t have a high-revving naturally aspirated engine, a manual transmission and rear-wheel drive, here’s your antidote. The M4 Competition xDrive, grilles and all, is yet one more triumph from BMW M. A company that isn’t just producing blinder after blinder now, but has solid plans to continue to do so. A new
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