BMW M4 Convertible Review by The Telegraph UK

Here’s an excerpt of the BMW M4 Convertible Review by The Telegraph UK:

Certainly, it has no problem when it comes to the business of going very fast. Being lighter than the previous M3 Convertible (albeit at a whisker over 1,800kg still 200kg more than the new M4 Coupé) certainly helps, but it’s the engine’s 425bhp and 406lb ft of torque that make the difference. Launching from 0-62mph takes just 4.4sec, which puts this BMW among the elite of performance machinery… if the road is dry.

This is where the test unravels, because on the day I drove the M4 in Germany the weather was so bad that at one point my co-driver trembled, “I just don’t really feel like I can see anything.”

And in the brief moments the downpours abated and we could see where we were going, the slick road meant that trying to deploy the M4’s performance was like poking a lion on the nose and expecting not to have your arm bitten off.

With the roof in place the BMW M4 Convertible isn’t quite as slick as the Coupé

Even in a straight line a full power upshift caused the car’s tail to leap sideways, such is the force with which the torque floods (ha!) to the rear wheels. As for corners, if you so much as look at the throttle you’d better be ready to catch the ensuing skid. Forget traction control, what you need when you drive an M4 in the wet are the reactions of a Jedi knight and a spare pair of your luckiest Marks and Sparks undercrackers.