F80 M3 / F82 M4 Spy Photos, Videos, and Facts/Rumors Compilation

NoTempoLimitN54 · 04-17-2013, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Jason

Updated with new spy pics from U.S. sighting - in LA.

I spotted the same car (prototype F30 M3) on my commute home last night 16 April in Beverly Hills.

The car was heading West crossing Rexford on Santa Monica Boulevard at about 7:40 pm (where the B.H. Police station is). Too bad I was already in the left turn position to head East, I would have followed it for a while. I did get a chance to hear the distinctive exhaust note. Definitely a multi-turbo I-6.

Hopefully the F30 M3 will be hanging out in the neighborhood and I'll have a chance at another sighting.

Inge_F · 04-18-2013, 03:40 AM

Don`t know if it`s been posted before, but anyway:

Jason · 04-18-2013, 10:45 PM

Updated.

teambimmer · 05-16-2013, 03:04 PM

spotted F82 in white today with carbon roof ala M6 coupe

cheers

alexey21 · 05-16-2013, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by teambimmer

spotted F82 in white today with carbon roof ala M6 coupe

cheers

Im guessing those are the production mirrors?

Jason · 05-16-2013, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by alexey21

Im guessing those are the production mirrors?

Yes, but still heavily camouflaged.

mhutchins14 · 05-20-2013, 12:16 PM

Wow! That's going to look really good when we get to see it without the camo!

Jason · 05-22-2013, 11:10 AM

Updated with latest M4 Coupe spy photos and list of details/info that we know.

Dan_335i · 05-23-2013, 02:51 PM

any chance of the M3 to start production before june 2014?

RMB · 06-07-2013, 08:17 PM

Given recent news events, if all of America's military secrets have been supposedly hacked and are out in the open, I am surprised we don't know more on the upcoming M3/M4. The transparency should be palpable (there, I used transparency and palpable in the same sentence).

Artemis · 06-15-2013, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason

Updated.

This video was posted on June 5, 2013: more M3 testing on the Nürburgring:

solstice · 06-15-2013, 06:26 PM

Nice! As long as you ignore the sound that is.

DeLaCasque · 06-18-2013, 09:23 AM

To me, it is starting to sound better. At low revs it produces a nice bark.

BMW269 · 06-18-2013, 12:32 PM

Maserati's 3.0l V6 (410 PS) sounds better than BMW's S55, and also better than BMW's S63.

solstice · 06-18-2013, 01:45 PM

I've been listening to the F80 clips and I'm a bit baffled that I can't hear a single throttle blip at downshifts. This is one of the nicest audio sensations in the current M3. Why is that? Surely throttle blips isn't purely induction noise and should be heard at least on the outside an FI car as well? The ring clip where they have an E90 M3 together with the F80 highlights this the best. The E90s blips can be heard loud and clear at every corner entry while the F80 just produce a little fart. None of the FI cars I owned blipped the throttle so I have no reference.

solstice · 06-18-2013, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Levi

Maserati's 3.0l V6 (410 PS) sounds better than BMW's S55, and also better than BMW's S63.

If the new M3 will sound like that as finished product

Uli_HH · 06-19-2013, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by solstice

If the new M3 will sound like that as finished product

The new M3/M4 sound much more like this engine as it could be!

Needsdecaf · 06-20-2013, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Levi

Maserati's 3.0l V6 (410 PS) sounds better than BMW's S55, and also better than BMW's S63.

You're hearing an unloaded engine revving, inside, with a microphone pointed feet away and comparing that to an engine under part and likely full load, outside, from hundreds of feet away.

Can't do that.

See5 · 06-20-2013, 03:29 PM

Kind of baffling how Jaguar, Mercedes, Audi, Maserati, etc have figured out how to make very aggressive sounding exhausts from the factory but not BMW.

turbolag · 06-20-2013, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by See5

Kind of baffling how Jaguar, Mercedes, Audi, Maserati, etc have figured out how to make very aggressive sounding exhausts from the factory but not BMW.

So they can sell M Perf exhaust.

Tåst · 06-21-2013, 02:31 PM

Maserati V6 better than BMW I6 or V8? No way.

Everything depends just what they wan´t to make on factory, F10 M5 owners someone like pretty quiet stock sound and then is performance exhaust. 335i is family car, so quiet is better on stock and 1M was engineered so fast that they maybe have not time to tune exhaust. That Maserati sound like regular V6, I prefer hundred times more I6 engine sound which scream more higher tone and smoother.

Some really want BMW sound like Maserati V6?

BMW269 · 06-21-2013, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Holander

Maserati V6 better than BMW I6 or V8? No way.

Everything depends just what they wan´t to make on factory, F10 M5 owners someone like pretty quiet stock sound and then is performance exhaust. 335i is family car, so quiet is better on stock and 1M was engineered so fast that they maybe have not time to tune exhaust. That Maserati sound like regular V6, I prefer hundred times more I6 engine sound which scream more higher tone and smoother.

Some really want BMW sound like Maserati V6?

Comparing stock exhaust with aftermarket exhaust?

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solstice Major General 5494 Rep 7,060 Posts Drives: 2015 M3 6MT Join Date: May 2013 Location: Seattle iTrader: (0)	I've been listening to the F80 clips and I'm a bit baffled that I can't hear a single throttle blip at downshifts. This is one of the nicest audio sensations in the current M3. Why is that? Surely throttle blips isn't purely induction noise and should be heard at least on the outside an FI car as well? The ring clip where they have an E90 M3 together with the F80 highlights this the best. The E90s blips can be heard loud and clear at every corner entry while the F80 just produce a little fart. None of the FI cars I owned blipped the throttle so I have no reference.
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