The new BMW M4 has big grille, big power — and a big identity crisis
Big ambition. Most of it works, but the big news is that M4 is no longer the brandâs premier track rat. That title belongs to the smaller, apex-slicing M2 coupe â a rocket with the same proportions as the 2000 E46 M3 that established M as the handling standard for performance coupes. Twenty years later, M badge proliferates throughout the BMW lineup, from the M2, M5 and M8 to even M versions of its X3 and X5 SUVs. And as the M4 (now the coupeâs badge, M3 is a sedan) has grown, it has shed some of its athletic identity to the nimbler M2. If todayâs M2 is a scalpel, then the...