The bulging aluminum hood, the glowing streams of light circling the Xenon headlights, the dual kidney grille and the wide shoulders of the flared front fenders pushing out all make this Bimmer ripple.Īlong the side, the small gills on the front fenders add to the look, and in case someone doesn’t know it’s an M little badges point it out for them. This is as chiseled as Mark McGuire in the late ’90s. BMW has sharpened all the edges and bulked up the M3 significantly. The M stands for monster Sitting in a parking lot along Eureka Road in Taylor, I looked over the M3. While the car remains heavy, its oversized brakes and big engine make it feel much lighter. I pull off the highway, tap the brake pedal and let the performance brakes easily bring the 4,720-pound M3 to a stop. I always want to shift too early with these rare V-8s and I have to listen to that little William Wallace in my head as the revs climb higher and higher like the approaching English cavalry.
At 6K, the M3’s engine is just getting started, and that’s where the twitchy, seat of your pants fun kicks into a new gear (pun completely intended). Most V-8s would rather throw a rod than rev past 6,000 rpm.
Driving a high-rev engine at first feels all wrong. The M3 has great pickup, especially at speed, when the revs are high. Instead, I’ll tell you what all of that technology does: Woooo hoooo! I could go into detail about the individual throttle butterfly for each cylinder, the variable double-VANOS camshaft management or the volume flow-controlled, pendulum-slide cell pump that keeps each cylinder super slick to show off how advanced this engine is, but you’d stop reading. It’s a 4-liter, 414-horsepower, high-revving piece of German ingenuity.īy replacing the six-cylinder engine from the previous M3, BMW has made a bigger engine that is lighter, more powerful and more efficient. High-revving performance Luxury is nice, but performance is king with the M3.
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BMW has vastly improved how it works, and without ever getting the owner’s manual out, I could find the navigation system and adjust the radio without turning the AC off. Now, I know lots of people complain about the iDrive, but I no longer understand those quibbles. Your friends will smell the German craftsmanship - which is significantly better than smelling a German craftsman.Ĭonnected to the iDrive, the display screen shows each click and twist of the knob. The leather is premium and every touch of trim is tastefully applied. The seats, which include an optional back-widening function, are extremely comfortable and hold you snugly, the way a sports car should. A display screen is mounted under a simple sloping edge at the top of the dash. There’s a reassuring and familiar look to them. The dash keeps BMW’s simple black-faced gauges and red needles. The M logo decorates the steering wheel, the speedometer, the front fenders, trunk and door sills. Then again, if you have the cash for this car, you’re more concerned with performance and leather-wrapped exclusivity than gas mileage.įamiliar look extreme comfort You’re never far from little reminders of your special BMW. The M3 hits 14 miles per gallon in the city and 20 mpg on the highway. The M3 sedan starts at $55,875, which includes shipping and a $1,300 gas guzzler tax or the same amount my 401(k) lost while you’re reading this.Īll that money won’t buy you great gas mileage.
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Of course, with any of these cars, you’ll need more than $50,000 available just to be given a free cup of coffee at the dealership. But that’s not taking anything away from the M3, which wins the triathlon of fun, sporty and luxurious without taking first in any of the events. The RS4 can outperform the M3 in extreme cornering and in bad weather. The C63 AMG offers more luxury (and power) than the M3 in terms of comfort and quiet ride. The Audi RS4, Lexus IS F and C63 AMG all beat the M3 in one area or another - but none offer as complete a package. It has to with so many other high-end sports sedans vying for the No. Some cars can impress with their performance, others with their posh touches and cool technology the M3 manages both. I didn’t know what this particular unobtrusive bing meant in the greater scheme of warning signals, so I took my foot off the accelerator and looked over the sleek black leather dashboard. Bings, bongs, and little beeps always mean something, and usually it’s something wrong: check your seat belt your door is ajar the engine is about to explode. The problem was I didn’t know what it meant. It’s a sweet tone: a small little bell echoing through the cockpit of the 2008 BMW M3.
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