Video: Raucous F80 M3 Cold Start

[misterbeemer]

Lol...just terrible. Being the so called ultimate driving machine, it should sound good anywhere, even in a garage and even when recorded on a supposedly crappy phone.

Oh well, they are going to input fake engine/exhaust sounds in the cabin through the speakers anyways to make you feel like you are getting your money's worth.

[MisterEm]

The clip was recorded with a phone (likely of poor quality) and in an enclosed garage on a stone cold cranky inline 6. Of course it would sound like dung!

Listen to all of the available S55 clips and then this recent one that Jason posted.

Which one doesn't sound like the others?



Off topic but definitely in scope here: Why is every thread in here filled with current E9X owners lamenting the loss of the V8, adding turdbros, and "but, but listen to this youtube clip"??

This F80/82 M3/4 forum seems to have collated the same forum hysteria we read in 2007 when the blasphemous BMW engineers decided put a V8 in the E9X M3. How dare they stray from the inline 6 (or the S14) ! Look back today, and the car turned out just fine (save a few porky pounds).

The S55 and the F80/2 will be a hit. Patience.

[pgviper]

Originally Posted by absoluteis350

I dunno.. Going to miss the V8.. that sounds like my lawnmower.

Completely agree. Sounds just like my lawn mower.

[KG3356MT]

Originally Posted by MisterEm

The clip was recorded with a phone (likely of poor quality) and in an enclosed garage on a stone cold cranky inline 6. Of course it would sound like dung!

Listen to all of the available S55 clips and then this recent one that Jason posted.

Which one doesn't sound like the others?



Off topic but definitely in scope here: Why is every thread in here filled with current E9X owners lamenting the loss of the V8, adding turdbros, and "but, but listen to this youtube clip"??

This F80/82 M3/4 forum seems to have collated the same forum hysteria we read in 2007 when the blasphemous BMW engineers decided put a V8 in the E9X M3. How dare they stray from the inline 6 (or the S14) ! Look back today, and the car turned out just fine (save a few porky pounds).

The S55 and the F80/2 will be a hit. Patience.

I hope your right. I still think the V8 wil always sound better. The overall car will be great though.

[pkimM3r]

omg as-is that sounds like puuuuure shit....damn i want an mpe now..

[DieGrüneHölle]

Why are people using the garage as an excuse? If anything it should have helped it sound better. Exhaust videos shot in parking garages are always louder and artificially enhanced. Not the other way around.

[hova00]

To me it seems as if everything in BMW's line up is getting soft and so mainstream with their M stuff that it BMW should stand for Bland Motor Works.

This car doesn't seem to evoke any passion so far. The video with the E92 M3 and MPE exhaust makes me want to go and buy another one and I already had 2.

F80 M3 not so much

[Powaup]

is that a mineral white in the second video?

[jbockrd]

Come on!!! It will sound so much better than that!! It's inside, a crappy phone vid, it may not even be production exhaust because it had e92 19 inch wheels on it.

[3M TAPE]

Sounds like a broken N54 engine sound

[dimabimmer]

Originally Posted by Blipit_

Why are people using the garage as an excuse? If anything it should have helped it sound better. Exhaust videos shot in parking garages are always louder and artificially enhanced. Not the other way around.

agree 110%

[dimabimmer]

Originally Posted by Double Bubble

Sounds like a broken N54 engine sound

that's what "3" cylinder Limp Mode sounds like...

[conradb]

I hope we can place an order for the F80 by the end of this year for ED :[

[conradb]

Originally Posted by MisterEm

Off topic but definitely in scope here: Why is every thread in here filled with current E9X owners lamenting the loss of the V8, adding turdbros, and "but, but listen to this youtube clip"??

This F80/82 M3/4 forum seems to have collated the same forum hysteria we read in 2007 when the blasphemous BMW engineers decided put a V8 in the E9X M3. How dare they stray from the inline 6 (or the S14) ! Look back today, and the car turned out just fine (save a few porky pounds).

The S55 and the F80/2 will be a hit. Patience.

Reading the comments here I want to gouge my eyes out. The stupidity is enormous. They say the same shit every damn generation. This car will probably be a brutal track monster, and will destroy the E9x M3. I'm an E92 M3 owner, I absolutely love the S65, but I'm very much looking forward to rinsing the new F80 on the track. It sounds great, and the exterior looks leagues better than the E9x ever did, AND I OWN ONE.

[Needsdecaf]

Originally Posted by racedoc11

+1 I think the video backfired on BMW . It was supposed to be a "spy" video where the new M3 getting caught starting up inside the garage to amplify the sound so we can say Wow we can't wait to get one! Is it just me who thinks posts like this are coming straight from BMW marketing dept. (No offence to Jason).

BMW Marketing would NEVER allow this video to be released as a teaser. It sounds terrible!! They're not deaf idiots....

[OldGlory]

Can anyone tell if those are full LED tailights?

[crooked I]

lets see a video that wasn't recorded with a potato

[solstice]

Lol, after reading the subject line with sounding raucous and Jason's warning that the garage will amplify the sound I was expecting to hear a raw, über loud metallic race note. I listened this morning and appreciated a good laugh. I'm still waiting for the punch line of this joke though. It's a joke right, right...please?

[gblansten]

Originally Posted by crooked I

lets see a video that wasn't recorded with a potato

That made me laugh.

[FogCityM3]

had low expectations before I clicked on the video, but sounds like my expectations were way too high. Is this a fake??

[wilstave]

Originally Posted by JoeFromPA

Seriously people?

1. It's a pre-production model by a significant amount of time. They might have the real exhaust on there, they might not - they could be camo'ing the exhaust/intake sound.

2. That was possibly the worst audio recording I've heard in a long time of an "exhaust sound". And even good audio recording are damn near impossible to judge compared to in person.

3. If you pay attention to the other sounds you hear (i.e. clutch engaging flywheel, gear changes) you can hear how totally out of whack that audio is in terms of what frequencies it's picking up strongly vs. what it's not hearing.

+1

[chicochico]

.. Or has this been released just to lower our expectations... Which it has clearly been successful at doing.