If you happen to can look past its controversial appears to be like, the 2021 BMW M3 Competitors appears to be an outstanding sports activities sedan. Is it sufficient to impress Harry Metcalfe, nevertheless?

The veteran automotive journalist has just about pushed each BMW M automotive that there has ever been, which means he’s the right particular person to place the brand new M3 via its paces.

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Metcalfe first discusses the outside design of the M3 Competition. Whereas he says it has some good angles, he does critique a few of the design decisions, together with the flared wheel arches. The inside, whereas nice, isn’t excellent both and the elective carbon fiber bucket seats received’t be to everybody’s tastes as Metcalfe states that the bolsters are somewhat too aggressive.

Then there’s the drive. Powering the M3 Competitors is a 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged six-cylinder with 503 hp and 479 lb-ft (650 Nm) of torque mated to an eight-speed ZF automated transmission. Metcalfe suggests the sedan feels sooner than these figures recommend and says that in some situations, it may gain advantage from the elective all-wheel drive system that’s launching quickly.

A lot has been mentioned in regards to the automotive’s automated transmission because the previous-generation M3 featured a dual-clutch ‘field. Metcalfe says this new ZF transmission is healthier at gradual velocity duties than the dual-clutch but it surely merely doesn’t present the identical sort of crisp and instantaneous downshifts.