M3/M4 [Official] 2021 BMW M3 and M4 [G80 & G82]

[bmwz4coupe]

No fuel included in my opinion

Quattroruote has weighted the cars with full tank of fuel as long as I can remember, so if it is without fuel now then they have changed the procedure... however it would explain why this test car is so light...! Do they say anything in the text on this?

 

[manuelf]

Quattroruote has weighted the cars with full tank of fuel as long as I can remember, so if it is without fuel now then they have changed the procedure... however it would explain why this test car is so light...! Do they say anything in the text on this?

And by the way ... what an odd measurement procedure would this be????
Without fuel?
So they pump fuel out of the car before weighing it? Or they drive around until they run out of fuel? Seriously!?
And if so - why then weigh WITH driver AND equipment??? Makes no sense to me at all!
The only weighing procedure, which makes sense as it is "reproduceable" and "easy" to achieve:
Full tank and NO passengers/luggage!
And this is the reason sport auto and Autobild sportscars measure exactly like this ...

 

[bmwz4coupe]

And by the way ... what an odd measurement procedure would this be????
Without fuel?
So they pump fuel out of the car before weighing it? Or they drive around until they run out of fuel? Seriously!?
And if so - why then weigh WITH driver AND equipment??? Makes no sense to me at all!
The only weighing procedure, which makes sense as it is "reproduceable" and "easy" to achieve:
Full tank and NO passengers/luggage!
And this is the reason sport auto and Autobild sportscars measure exactly like this ...

Yes, it would be very odd, so I neither think it is correct. All german, french and american magazine measure with full tank.

 

[J.E]

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[Centurion]

Nicely modified and the aftermarket exhaust compliments the appeerence and power.

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[savage-It]

And by the way ... what an odd measurement procedure would this be????
Without fuel?
So they pump fuel out of the car before weighing it? Or they drive around until they run out of fuel? Seriously!?
And if so - why then weigh WITH driver AND equipment??? Makes no sense to me at all!
The only weighing procedure, which makes sense as it is "reproduceable" and "easy" to achieve:
Full tank and NO passengers/luggage!
And this is the reason sport auto and Autobild sportscars measure exactly like this ...

I will check if they use no fuel at all in their calculations.Personally if I would like to know the real weight of two similar cars, I would always compare apples to apples and this means with no driver, no luggage, no fuel.But that's me and I know, rules are different.

 

[CrunchSlaughtered]

I will check if they use no fuel at all in their calculations.Personally if I would like to know the real weight of two similar cars, I would always compare apples to apples and this means with no driver, no luggage, no fuel.But that's me and I know, rules are different.

The measurement with full tank led to the cheap trick to lighten the car with the use of a smaller tank. All petrol cars should have at least 70 l tank.

 

[Levi68]

The measurement with full tank led to the cheap trick to lighten the car with the use of a smaller tank. All petrol cars should have at least 70 l tank.

Jaguar F Pace is the worst offender, 60l for SUV, madness!

 

[savage-It]

And by the way ... what an odd measurement procedure would this be????
Without fuel?
So they pump fuel out of the car before weighing it? Or they drive around until they run out of fuel? Seriously!?
And if so - why then weigh WITH driver AND equipment??? Makes no sense to me at all!
The only weighing procedure, which makes sense as it is "reproduceable" and "easy" to achieve:
Full tank and NO passengers/luggage!
And this is the reason sport auto and Autobild sportscars measure exactly like this ...

So I checked and "it seems" (info coming from BMWPassion Forum) that we have to detract not only the 100 kg, but even the fuel. I feel happy but even quite disoriented : this car weights less than rumored and even declared or am I wrong?

 

[manuelf]

So I checked and "it seems" (info coming from BMWPassion Forum) that we have to detract not only the 100 kg, but even the fuel. I feel happy but even quite disoriented : this car weights less than rumored and even declared or am I wrong?

No. Everything fine then! If I understand you right: They measured the 1816kg with full tank plus 100kg driver and equipment.
If you remove 100kg driver/equipment, then we have 1716kg with full tank.
This is also fully inline with the measurement ///M did in one of the G8x presentation videos, where they compared a G82 with full tank to a G82 with full tank.
The G82 was about 1680 kg as a manual! ZF8 speed is roughly 30kg heavier. So this matches perfectly!

 

[dalab]

Nice angle

Via bmwblog.com

 

[dalab]

In that photo it looks just as I wish the Ms were for so long, pure badass, each line, each part is sculptural and made on purpose, faithful to the passion that I did not feel since I saw the E46, ahead of its time,
This is an achievement and if according to what has been seen if we add the dynamic section ...... this is how the sport coupes should be, period.

 

[PanterroR]

Whatever people say, it's an animal...

Again: i love M3/M4 front, but HATE non-M 4 series...

 

[bmwz4coupe]

The measurement with full tank led to the cheap trick to lighten the car with the use of a smaller tank. All petrol cars should have at least 70 l tank.

Yes, cars with big tank gets “penalized” with a higher kerb weight which one could argument is not fair since big tanks is positive since it give longer range. The most “fair” method would maybe be what the british magazine “Motor” did for decades until the 80’s; they weighted the cars with the amount of fuel it needed to travel for 50 miles. In this way cars which consumed more fuel was weighted with more fuel. Anyway, today the norm seems to be full tank weight which almost all magazines apply. I don’t know why EU implemented the norm with 90% tank which the manufacteurs follow. This gives only aprox 5 kilos less weight than full tank so it is not a big problem, but full tank method would be more logical since it is the most used method.

 

[hovabongZA]

Nice angle

Via bmwblog.com

These cars photograph beautiful in SA!

 

[savage-It]

No. Everything fine then! If I understand you right: They measured the 1816kg with full tank plus 100kg driver and equipment.
If you remove 100kg driver/equipment, then we have 1716kg with full tank.
This is also fully inline with the measurement ///M did in one of the G8x presentation videos, where they compared a G82 with full tank to a G82 with full tank.
The G82 was about 1680 kg as a manual! ZF8 speed is roughly 30kg heavier. So this matches perfectly!

So it could be that the 4WD will weight, no fuel, around 1730/1740 kg?coming soon for an extra 6000 euro it seems..

 

[dalab]

These cars photograph beautiful in SA!

I would like to go some day, beautiful landscapes and beautiful cars for something is that they choose it as many times as a location

 

[hovabongZA]

I would like to go some day, beautiful landscapes and beautiful cars for something is that they choose it as many times as a location

Let me know ..your accommodation would be covered on me.

 

[dalab]

Let me know ..your accommodation would be covered on me.

Excellent, thank you very much, , I will be delighted, I hope I can do it soon

 

[dalab]

These photos are so good that they show appreciable detail only IRL