[PLF69]

After owning an M340i for almost a year and switching to an M4 with buckets + doing a track day and driving 3.5 hours to the track and 3.5 hours back here is my take.

Firstly I am someone who rarely will choose an option for looks unless it's cheap, so keep in mind to me the carbon buckets are purely for function.

I also rode in my friends M4 with regular seats for 4 hours.

My verdict to this debate: there is no good answer, it really depends what you want/except from your BMW M experience.

- The buckets add an additional feel of what the car is doing and is a must for performance driving be it on or off track.

- The regular seats pull the car towards a very very hard to beat balance of luxury(comfort) /performance medium.

In one way or another you will end up doing a compromise, be it a harder ingress/egress or a lot less support when being subject to body motions/high G-forces