If Thor had an MBA and wore a tailored Hugo Boss suit to office every day, he’d probably drive this – the 2025 BMW M4 Competition M xDrive, a German executive coupe that somehow manages to mix brute force with ballroom finesse. It’s the kind of car that pulls up at a luxury hotel and makes even the valet gulp twice before saying, “Sir, manual hai kya?” (No, unfortunately, it’s not — India doesn’t get the manual one yet. Sad violin noises.)
🏁 The Lineage of Loud Logic
The BMW M4, born in 2014, is now in its second-generation facelift for 2025 — codename G82. Think of it as the BMW 4 Series that went to a secret gym in Munich, drank only premium petrol, and came out doing burpees while growling in German.
It’s built on BMW’s CLAR platform, the same architecture that also underpins the 5 Series, 6 Series, X3, X4, Z4, and even Toyota’s GR Supra — yes, that Japanese muscle car secretly speaks German.
💪 Design – Beauty and the Beast in One Frame
Designed by Anne Forschner, the M4 is both elegant and unhinged. The front kidney grille, once controversial, now looks almost normal — maybe because our eyes have finally accepted that BMW design chiefs were serious. The adaptive LED matrix headlights come with blue accents and a ₹65,000 Shadow Line upgrade, which is German for “you didn’t need it, but you wanted it.”
At the back, you get CSL Laser-Style taillights that look like Iron Man’s pulse reactors on espresso. The carbon fibre roof saves weight, but mostly tells your neighbour that your EMI is higher than his.
And yes, there’s a ₹9.55 lakh Carbon Exterior Package because who doesn’t like paying a small car’s worth of money for fancy black trim?
⚙️ Engineering Porn (in the cleanest way possible)
Under the bulging bonnet sits a 3.0-litre, inline-six, twin-turbocharged S58 engine that makes 523 horsepower and 650 Nm of torque. That’s enough to spin the Earth backward if you floor it near the equator. 0–100 km/h comes in 3.5 seconds, or roughly the time it takes your brain to register regret after pressing the accelerator too hard.
It’s paired with an 8-speed ZF M Steptronic transmission and an M xDrive AWD system with Active M Differential, so it behaves like an obedient German shepherd — until you switch to M2 mode, where it turns into a rabid wolf on espresso.
For the unreasonably brave, there’s also the M Drive Professional system (₹1.9 lakh) that includes Track Mode, Drift Analyzer, and Lap Timer, so you can scientifically measure how bad your oversteer was.
🧠 Technology That Judges You Silently
The cabin is a spaceship on leather. A 14.9-inch infotainment system runs BMW’s Operating System 8.5, which is more advanced than most people’s laptops. You can talk to it, gesture at it, and even glare at it — it still won’t play Honey Singh unless you mean it.
A 12.3-inch M-specific instrument cluster and Head-Up Display show you everything from gear shifts to G-forces, because apparently, you need scientific proof that you’re scaring your passenger.
And when you’re done scaring them, you can calm them with 16-speaker Harman Kardon surround sound — perfect for playing “Calm Down” after every highway pull.
🛋️ Luxury with Lap Times
The seats? M Sport electric seats with ventilation, heating, lumbar, and illuminated M logos. If you want to feel like you’re being hugged by Zeus himself, tick the ₹8.3 lakh Carbon Bucket Seats — they hold you so tight, you might question your life choices on long drives.
There’s leather everywhere — Merino upholstery in silver, red, blue, or brown — all softer than your excuses for being late. The ambient lighting, carbon fibre trim, and anthracite headliner make it feel like a Bond villain’s bachelor pad.
🚗 Drive, Ride & Drama
The Adaptive M Suspension offers three modes: Comfort, Sport, and Sport+, which can be interpreted as “Doctor-approved,” “Neighbour-scaring,” and “License-threatening.”
Even though it weighs around 1.85 tonnes, it dances through corners like a caffeinated ballerina. The Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tyres (Made in France, naturally) grip the road like a gecko on glass, and the optional Carbon Ceramic Brakes (₹20 lakh!) can stop time — or at least your forward motion — faster than a heartbreak text.
💰 Economics of Madness
Base price: ₹1.52 crore.
Optional extras: another small flat in Indore.
But who’s counting when you’ve got 523 horses and a badge that says “M4”?
Add the optional M Driver’s Package (₹5 lakh), M Lights Shadow Line, M Carbon Roof, and M Drive Professional, and you’ve officially turned your sensible executive coupe into a luxury jet with a number plate.
⚡ M4 CS – The Track-Ready Twin
And if you think this was wild, meet the M4 CS — the lighter, angrier sibling with 543 horsepower, titanium exhaust, red-outlined badges, carbon bucket seats, and a Frozen Isle of Man Green paint job so cool it should come with an NDA. It’s ₹1.78 crore worth of pure Nürburgring attitude.
🧯 Safety: Because You’ll Need It
Eight airbags, parking assist, run-flat tyres, and a Drive Recorder (₹45,000) so you can rewatch the moment you nearly met your ancestors.
BMW’s Active Protection System even detects when you’re drowsy — which is hilarious, because nobody has ever fallen asleep driving an M4.
🔚 Verdict – The Power of German Overkill
The BMW M4 Competition is not a car — it’s a personality disorder on wheels. It’s polite when you want, psychotic when you don’t. It’s as capable on a racetrack as it is in a Gurgaon office parking lot (just don’t try drifting there).
It’s a GT car, muscle coupe, tech gadget, and attention magnet rolled into one. And while your wallet may hate you, your heart — and your right foot — will send you flowers.
Final Rating: 9.8/10
(Minus 0.2 points because we still don’t get the manual in India — and because BMW insists on charging ₹1 lakh for a steering wheel wrapped in Alcantara.)
