2011 BMW M3 Road Test & Car Review - RoadflyTV with Ross Rapoport

The BMW M3 is one of the finest driver's cars ever made, and I was finally lucky enough to spend a week with one.

The heart of the M3 is an exquisite 4.0L V8, making 414hp at a wild 8300rpm. Peak torque is 295 lb-ft, but that entire figure is available at just 3900rpm, a stunning mark of tractability in such a high-revving screamer.

Our test car was equipped with a 7-speed DCT (BMW's name for the fancy dual-clutch gearbox), and the transmission—like other vehicle characteristics like throttle response and suspension—can be adjusted from 'nice and easy' to 'neckbreaking.'

2011 M3s equipped with this transmission have gone as low as 3.9 sec to 60mph, and 12.5 sec in the 1/4-mile. Yet due to the engine's powerband, it's remarkably civilized around town.

Gearing is perfect; even in 7th gear, the car is never caught flat-footed. In fact, at 2000rpm in 7th the car will be going just 50mph! That is great for acceleration, bad for fuel economy: the M3 manages just 14 mpg city and 20 highway and gets slapped with the gaz-guzzler tax.

That's really the only chink in the car's armor, and the M3 instantly became the car by which I measure all sports cars by.

—Ross Rapoport, Road Test Editor and Video Host

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Vehicle: 2011 M3 Coupe
Base Price: $58,400
Price as tested: $69,925
Engine: 4.0L 32V V8
Transmission: 7-speed dual-clutch automated manual (DCT)
Horsepower: 414 @ 8300 rpm
Torque: 295 lb.-ft. @ 3900 rpm
0-60 MPH: 3.9-4.5 sec.
Warranty: 4 years, 50,000 miles w/free maintenance
Fuel Economy: 14 city / 20 highway MPG

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[TheMusicandlyricz]

The M3 is hell alot cheaper in the states. For "Ca $69770" in Canada you can only get a fully loaded 335i coupe.

[id10tek]

Is saving money really an issue when putting one of these bad boys together?

[mrrealitycheckusa]

I tell my clients you dont test drive one of the bmw unless you really ready to buy one. Once you drive one your screwed just nothing else like it. I drove the stage 2 dinan version once oh my what a blast.

[Stefanwouldyou]

surely if you really wanted it a second hand one will do, you can get them for about £27,000 with about 25k miles, and c'mon its a bmw... will last a lifetime

[Fireblaze15]

A crappy 20 dollar vest with a pink shirt... What the fuck was this guy thinking. The camera men suck as well. bleh. Review is pretty decent.

[TheMusicandlyricz]

Same for the whole world.

Still Cars in US are alot cheaper than Canada.

[MTenery14]

@TheMusicandlyricz No surprise there lol our economy is shit

[TheMusicandlyricz]

@MTenery14

It's cheaper to buy a M3 in US. In fact Canadian dollar is slightly higher than the US since coupe years ago.

[MTenery14]

@TheMusicandlyricz it's not cheaper, that's just a more valuable currency in the US

[ilijaonelove]

@ilfaraone7 too bad -.-' but all is not lost,maby one day we get to buy this or any car we like :DD

[LaurJus]

@whysogrim Me too! Just two more years to go... then I splurge and ignore my med school loans. Wooo!

[AznfoboiXO]

hmmm sounds like an NSX lol