Don't fancy spending £130k on a 4 Series? Here's what you could have instead...
in M’s 50-year history, and the first since the M3 of almost 20 years ago, you’ll forgive us some more M4 CSL words. That’s because, dubious looks and chunky price aside, a 550hp M4 promises an awful lot; you only need look at recent M cars - the M2 and M5 CS, most notably - to see the potential for another cracker, especially with the standard M4 providing such an auspicious base.
The high price is hard to escape, though, much as it often is with the uber BMWs. Lauded it might very well be now , but there was uproar in 2003 when the M3 CSL commanded a price almost £20k above the standard car for a mere 17hp extra. Of course, back then it took the M3 from fast 3 Series into 911-rivalling territory - funny how some things never change. , there’s a mouth-watering array of track-ready alternatives on offer.
Back when the Project 8 was announced in 2017, a 600hp V8 XE looked bold; now, just a few years later and with Jag on the brink of an all-electric rebirth, it looks like the most wonderful kind of lunacy. While the epic supercharged V8, 200mph potential and wild looks hogged the headlines, so much of whatwas in the less obvious; remember all this effort was for a mere 300 cars, too.
This 2014 GT3 gives pause for thought, though. It won’t scythe through every bend of the Nordschleife quite as adroitly as a 992, but it will still provide a thrill like only the GT 911s can. The 475hp flat-six will howl to 9,000rpm, the PDK ought to make the BMW’s auto feel a tad sluggish, the electric steering has only been improved by later Porsches and nothing will stand up to a weekend’s track daying quite like a Motorsport 911.
AMG really went to town on R, adding 16kg lighter manually adjustable buckets , increasing the torsional rigidity, widening the tracks, fitting four-wheel steer, conjuring a heap more downforce and equipping the GT with, memorably, the nine-stage traction control that borrowed learnings from the successful GT3 racer.
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