2021 BMW M3 Competition | The Best 4-Door Midsize Car On The Planet?

[Music] uh this is the 2021 bmw m3 competition guys listen listen real close this thing is nuts but it's smooth that's the crazy it's so smooth i feel alive again [Music] and i just sold my r8 last week so yes i'm yearning for this thing it's only been a week but it's good man i'm so excited to bring this car to you this is huge for the first time ever we have two bmws in the studio you see when we started our channel it was all audi related and that's what i knew i knew audi in and out but yes we broaden our horizons we make about a million views a month that's crazy thank you to all you guys that watch us now we have a 2021 m3 competition right here and look what we have in the back yes there's so many videos we can make with this thing that i think you guys know what it is anyways let's get the meat of potatoes this thing right here i've been waiting for a long time you see i used to have an e36 m3 and i love the way it handled and i haven't been with bmw in a really really long time but this is a big one because they stopped making that in 2018 and we're in 2021 now which means people that are waiting waited three years you see this thing competes against more than just the rs5 sportback this thing competes against the m340 which we reviewed it competes against that and it also competes against anybody who cares about design but the most important two things that this thing offers that no other m3 offered ever yes they're making this thing in a wagon yes an estate yes a touring wherever you are in the world that's what you call them but yes they make this thing in a wagon oh my god crazy and yes they still make it a manual but the second part that's crazy is you can get this in x drive all-wheel drive they're making an m3 that's all-wheel drive yes and of course in typical bmw fashion they make things complicated by offering you a base version in manual only and this is a competition you see this is the most unique m3 that we could find and man am i excited to review it i already said that but yes why do you offer a manual transmission in a base car with less horsepower and then a competition with more horsepower but not a manual only available in an eight-speed automatic zf transmission i want to give a big shout out to sarnia bmw for letting us borrow this 2021 bmw m3 competition that is a big risk for dealerships to take a chance on us so we would love it if you guys subscribed hit the like button comment below notification about all that fun stuff because that way that gives support when you get more cars it's on you bmw is smart you see this is what they do they offer you a four wheel drive or an x drive and they give you three different modes they give you the four wheel drive a four wheel drive sport and a two wheel drive that really opens up this car because now it becomes a car for everyone not just a car for the enthusiasts except controversy over here now obviously all over the internet this thing is plagued with different people's opinions and don't worry you're not going to hear none of that in this video because i already made a video about this front grill actually 10 hours of it so if you guys have the time you can jump on our second channel because everybody's doing it it's called more accelerate and yes 10 hours of me talking about this grill these are the first cars in history that will look better after getting in a front end collision now before i take a deep dive on the visual specifics of this m3 i want to talk about choices you see germans give you all the choice in the world except if you want a base one as i mentioned you can only get manual that makes 473 horsepower and yes it does go from 0 to 60 in 4.2 4.1 seconds you see this competition does 0 to 60 in about 3.8 to 3.9 seconds and it makes 503 horsepower but not only that it's options you see this competition gives you some options that you cannot get in a base car like a whole host of things the staggered setup goes from 18s and 19s now it becomes 19s in the front and 20s in the back you also get black everything you get a rear black spoiler you actually get double arm side mirrors you get traffic jam assist up on the windshield you get m seat belts on the inside you get changed mirror caps you get a black rear apron which is the lower part near the exhaust you also get completely different competition m3 badging that's different than the regular one it's all black so basically this thing is all blacked out or murdered out you get a front black lip spoiler instead of being color matched although you can get a color match because bmw gives that option and you also get black chrome exhaust tips so yes that's a whole host of things you get more power and all that for like three grand and that's just your base choice you see three grand obviously doesn't sound like a lot of money and it isn't when you're buying something like this except this is where they make the money and that's packaging you see they have three main packaging they have a premium package which is pretty typical across germans and that basically gives you necessities that you feel like you want in a car like this so it's like laser lights 360 camera heated seats in the front and heated seats in the back and a whole host of other features that you'd want to buy in a bmw m3 you see premium packages in german cars are something that you sort of just get as an option it's kind of a standard thing you just buy because well without it car feels kind of empty but the second package that's available in m3 is something called a carbon package now that includes a ton of stuff but mainly these seats because these seeds are out of this world check out these seats but lastly they actually have something called an ultimate pack which basically combines it all and adds a few things like a display key which basically you can see your car on the key pretty cool i don't have it in this specific one but it includes a display key gesture control and it's got a driver recorder so if you want all that stuff you basically just get the ultimate package because your ultimate ultimate driving machine so if we talk about the aesthetics on the front here we do have the bmw laser lights right here it says it right on it bmw laser lights but if we get down here this does have a seamless vertical front grille two of them obviously but they are horizontal the actual fins are horizontal compared to the last generation it's obviously a lot smaller but they're vertical not horizontal the other piece i noticed is that in europe you do have a pretty long front license plate that actually splits it up into the upper and the lower it's not as sort of glaringly obvious in europe than it is in north america one thing that is kind of obvious when you notice it sort of sticks in your mind a little bit is the radar you see it's sort of put down here and audi is sort of the same thing they have to put it in a spot in the front so trying to find a way to put it if i was bmw i'd have two small ones so at least it looks more uniform um like the grill that it is now it does have sculpted hoods and it also does have a front camera hidden right there so sort of neat touches this one does have the carbon fiber trim so it does have carbon fiber on the inserts here on the grill kind of nice it is sort of a we won't get in the grill but i do like parts of it from different angles i don't think it's as bad as people say it is and in person it does look a lot better damn cool part they do tell you this is an individual bmw color and that is called signal green so for those that are looking at getting an individual color this is it signal green it is sweet love it whoever decided to build this car and by whoever i mean bmw sarnia thank you very much for letting us borrow this 2021 bmw m3 we are so grateful hope you like this video nonetheless signal green good choice if you take a look at the engine you'll see how this engine does sit higher it does sit a little bit back but there's definitely no room in here this engine is crammed in here and look at the cross bracing all the way through amazing amazing and yes of course aluminum hood that's the same yeah maybe not this might be carbon fiber reinforced plastic not a bmw guy comment below but what is reinforced plastic is the roof this is all carbon fiber reinforced plastic sweet yes it is no different than that generation but it's cool that they are carrying it forward and they're carrying forward a lot of heritage stuff like yes it does have short overhangs it does have the crest line it does have the twin headlights so yes all those bmw elements are still in the car they even give you the individual choice to pick the color of breaks that you'd like you see you can get them in the bmw three colors that feels bmw in the sole and you can also get the gold which are carbon ceramic brakes in the front it does have a staggered setup and finally it does not come with run flats so for all the people that hate run flats that's for you as far as tires go this has two 75s 35 19 in the front and on the back you have 2 85 30 20. yes i just love that staggered setup as far as the side goes yes it does have all the competition pieces i pointed out about so you'll have this sort of flat black here and then you'll have a gloss back right behind it and same with this it does it's all gloss black there's just so much nice of this car and i think the green just really excites me so on the side you have this double arm side mirrors and yes there is gloss black that flows all the way through here that's very similar to the old model there on the side they do have the gas tank which is kind of weird because in the documents i read that you can actually have 87 as usable gas so if you are stuck and you need to put gas and you need to get somewhere you can actually still use 87 yeah crazy as far as suspension goes it does have the m adapter suspension and also does have an m rear diff now this is 117 millimeters longer than the previous generation it's about nine millimeters taller and about 10 millimeters wider now you can't really tell too much but it does look sort of like a similar size to sort of the older generation m5 maybe a hair smaller but i can definitely tell the part that appeals to me the most is right here i love the wide bodiness of it it's really just wide body and these big wheels in the back and the offset's awesome this is something bmw does so well is the design of the yeah now as far as the back goes this is very similar to the m340 we designed now this does have the carbon package so it does have sort of all the carbon here and it does have these awesome quad exhaust they are me now i didn't mention about the spoiler in the back here but the bumper is actually flared out you can't see it but if you look at it this way the back end is actually flared out like look how wide this is from the back trunk lid it's flared out this bumper is wide actually just noticed that pretty interesting now the rear camera is hiding over here again this does have 360 camera both mirrors the front and the back let's check out the trunk this does have 480 liters of space it's actually powered can you believe it a powered yeah it's not a wagon it's powered it's a sedan it's powered crazy again 460 liters of space it does have a low end so you can get in here all right so the seats fold down who cares i don't care about it let's go in the car there's way more exciting stuff inside than the trunk let's go all right so i'm in the back of the 2021 bmw m3 competition oh man oh sorry i thought this is the armrest i guess there's no arm rest there's the center rest but good to know now these seats are magical the quality of germans just do it so so well yes it does have black headliner but look at the back of these seats this is so beautiful and alien-like it's awesome and check out these seat belts fancy they do have the bmw blue red and black right in it now as far as tech in the back goes it does have heated seats because this is a competition it does have usb-c's two of them actually and yes i feel like i want to go fast sitting in the back as far as storage goes in the back yes you can fit a water bottle in the doors now they are flared out in the compartments to fit a little bit more than the conventional bmws the other thing it does have it does have ambient lighting right in the door strip here the one piece though that you'll notice when you're in the bmw is that you can pick one with or without a sunroof this specific one obviously because it does have the carbon does not have a sunroof it does on the other hand have an amazing interior let's go to the front yes bucket seats oh amazing i remember when i used to have the e36 m3 with the vader seats they were nice and buckety and tight these things are on another planet so would i suggest getting these seats over the regular normal seats yes oh my god these things even have handles in the seat i told you and yes these seats are not fixed like the audi r8 as an example if you get if you get fixed seats the bottom only slides backwards and forwards you can only have a certain fixed position this thing yeah it's powered this thing goes back power and the bottoms go backwards and forwards power so it's all powered and it actually still does squeeze you in depending on your body size so yes it works all the way around it's not just a looking seat i love it i love these seats anyways as far as interior trim goes you can get four different versions this is the carbon fiber trim you can get an open pour wood and you get two types of aluminum as far as the seats as i mentioned you can get four different versions as well you can get you can get yas marina blue interior with has this yellow strip here you can get kylana orange nothing presenting sounding that right you can also get silverstone gray and of course all black which is what this is this is all black everything um the front because we've reviewed the m340i this dash was in that so that was pretty standard to me it does have some end pieces but the steering wheel the steering wheel has nice long paddle shifters nice long yes they are mated to an eight speed and that is because they are trying to expand their buyers market as well as they also offer it in an all-wheel drive as i mentioned so that kind of makes sense to me why they have an eight-speed white zf transmission and not a dct a lot of the m3 guys are like we want the dct and i understand because again it's about sales they need to sell these things and they'll sell it to guys like me who have families and the wife thinks it's too jerky shirky when you get a dct so they were like you know make it a bit more luxurious and speaking of luxury they have something called galvanic controls which is basically plastic that has this sort of steel looking material on top of it so everything looks steel but it's plastic but it's called galvanic control so that's the style of it and it actually feels pretty decent it doesn't feel like plastic it has a bit of a sort of weighty feel to it i'm so excited i'm so excited i'm also excited that this is not piano black all the way because this trim is as i mentioned all the way through the car it's in the center console pretty much mainly it was piano black there'd be a lot of fingerprints so don't get piano black if you do get an m3 and it's also on the dash here but the cool pieces about an m car is it tells you m everywhere you look you see in the dash it says m the colors of the temperature are blue white red bmw colors the steering wheel right in front of me the shift knob has bmw m stitching all the way through and this m logo that has a stitching all the way around and this m logo that's embossed it says m3 competition right here it just makes me feel oh i forgot about the seat belts i mentioned in the back but yes look i got them in the front as well like a kid at a candy store can you tell i'm excited as far as display goes this is a 12.3 inch display that's nice and big and wide and the cool part about it is that i can see the whole thing through the steering wheel because a lot of manufacturers make them and you can't see the other dials as far as the center display goes here it is a 10 and a quarter inch screen and i can tell you in terms of size and if you don't know what that is like look at any key on the market they are 12.2 inch screen it's very good very wide and very big and you can tell because this is idrive 7.0 this is our latest version it's very clear it does have hand gestures it moves up and down left and right but it's very easy to use and it is touch screen i can touch my hands or i can use the i drive portion here to use it and it's pretty cool this also does have apple carplay and android auto it also does have wireless charging you just lift up this little tray here and you can put your phone there it does have a usb and a cigarette lighter that pops up there it also does have a usbc here so three usb-cs and one usb interestingly enough these are waterproof because the two cup holders are right here and we all know that germans aren't really big fans of cup holders but they do put them in here they hide them but they put them in here you ask can it fit a water bottle yes it can right there fairly easy to grab fairly easy to put now if you take a deep dive in the infotainment we start right at the top we hit media you basically have all your radio stations spotify bluetooth audio screen mirroring etc pretty easy to use as you can see just slide your finger up and down then you can add manual searches and stuff like that so you don't really have to use this idrive so then if you hit the next home button it takes you to the phone so basically you can set up your phone do text messaging bmw assist bmw messages pretty straightforward stuff with bmw but i think the nav's the big one that they've changed so let's see how fast it is like watch my finger here and move it up and down and i'll squiggle around there when i do this i can tell you that it's fairly fast you can set your theme your map you can split screen it all that good stuff pretty straightforward stuff but really we're here for the m menus because this is where the meat and potatoes is at so let's hit the m menu here and boom you can configure your m button so you have specific m buttons for you so you can configure it by holding this down you can see it there and i can set up so let's configure it and i can change it so let's go so i can change from engine to sport and i can make it sport plus the transmission different sequential speeds high shifting that kind of stuff the chassis the steering the brakes your dsc and of course your traction control so you can set how much traction you want to set mind boggling that is nuts and of course the only way to change that is to shut off traction control so let's shut up dfc dsc off yes we want to deactivate it and this is where i can change the m traction control and i can pick how many increments of traction i want to set up to 10. amazing and yes that is because this does have a drift analyzer that's awesome this is part of bmw's m drive professional which basically allows you to set how much slip you want at each given wheel so the most important piece here is the drift analyzer so let's hit it and you can see that you can set a lap timer of how long you hold your drift that is crazy how many laps you have the distance covered there's so much good stuff here there's not many cars in the world that give you a drift analyzer that you can see how long you've drifted how many drifts you've done your total distance of drifting and your possible drift distance and your understeer and the angle of your drift that is nuts obviously we're on the road we can't use it but it's cool to have anyways that's a lot of talking i want to get this thing on the road dying to drive it let's go [Music] oh man this is one quick beaver i mean beamer now bmw keeps making vehicles bigger and longer and heavier now this weighs about 30 850 pounds the old generation weighed about 3 500 pounds and yes they're making them bigger and heavier but this is 0.1 second faster than the old generation in a manual and 0.3 seconds faster in the 8-speed now in the automatic but it i get it it's the enthusiast want smaller lighter and they're just keep making them heavier and bigger but that's just the way the world is moving it's moving in that direction and remember it's all about sales they don't sell these things well they're not going to make them for us so yes thank god they've given us a manual transmission and yes thank god we have all this tech because we're gonna use it at some point in the future or maybe not who knows but they have it and we get it on the throttle i just feel so safe and planted even though the back end does squiggle a little bit it just listen to that thing now in this color it is let me turn this down a little bit in this color there's no doubt this is like heat score 101. like everybody can see you everybody stares at you it's wild but it's so nice and it makes you want to get a wild crazy color and they offer it that's the best part [Applause] so let's talk about transmissions transmissions go from least desirable to most desirable in this order first up is torque converter which is what we have here but they've got a lot better over the years they shift a lot faster and they're just a lot smoother the next up is dct which is the last generations and then up is manual so bmw covers the manual and the torque converter and that kind of makes sense because from a marketing and sales standpoint you want to sell as many cars as you can and keep them sort of rare unique and still keep your original base which they do that with these crazy seats these crazy colors they sell in all the settings you can adjust the drift analyzers they're like we'll give these hard driver fools folks something to love and they've given you that they've given you all those toys and for those that have partners that don't want a stiff firm car because it's too bumpy and they don't want to come for a drive with you because it's too bumpy and it's too no too loud too noise they give you all that stuff to make it soft comfortable and all the good things but don't take my word for it listen to how this thing shifts okay listen that's fast enough so fast that this camera keeps moving backwards and forwards it can't stay still there's so much power that things pull this thing back and i really believe that bmw put a torque converter in this because of who they're selling to and obviously xdrive so because of xdrive and they want to get it to a smooth clientele they put this transmission in it and it's way better than people say like the talk out there is just non-warranted this thing is good [Music] it's nice handles well sits firm on the ground obviously it is a bmw m3 just a ridiculous amount of traction in this rear axle a ton that's amazing so the only downside i can find out of this motor that makes 125.3 i might add brake horsepower per liter that is huge honda has 2000 time type stuff which had like huge huge press because of that power it made out of the motor anyways the only downside i can find out from all that is the fact that this car has a 59 liter gas tank which means you're gonna fly through fuel now this is a definitely a lot closer to the three the m340i than the old generation m3 there's there's like no comparison at all those cars that and this the m340i is definitely closer to this than the old generation m3 but there's just something about an m car man i don't know who goes on the internet complains about zf transmissions and all that stuff yes you guys you got to say something i guess in the world because this is good enough it's great enough it's great enough for me so even though yes this is an automatic the fact that the shifter actually glides in position like a manual you go forward back and then the neutrals this way and reverse is up and over and up oh amazing not this whole like park reverse neutral drive boring this is where it's at all right mike well how about day to day stuff how is this on a day to day basis well right now i'm an efficient comfort comfort all the way through and again i always like to drive all my cars with the lightest steering wheels and everything else on aggressive and that's usually how i've been driving them but from this exercise i've got everything on efficient and comfort and quiet and the only thing i can hear this drives like a normal car the only thing i can hear is the tires and that's because these are ultra ultra sticky tires these are like one step beneath our compounds there's the stickiest tire you can get that's the only thing you have but that's across the border in any supercar or cars that make supercar type numbers again we're not talking hyper cars supercars supercars and yes you can get manual and yes you can get four wheel drive and yes you can shut the four-wheel drive off and yes you've got a drift analyzer that analyzes your drift that critiques you for drifting like yeah i'm drifting but i'm critiquing you for drifting and to anybody that whines and complains in the comments i will tell you this benz is making a four cylinder from their c63 a four-cylinder this ain't no four-cylinder and the ceo of bmw was like we're not dropping r6 our inline-six is here to stay and that's a good choice you

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Length: 26min 27sec (1587 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 02 2021