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Originally Posted by EXE46
The only take-away here is that this new gen M3/M4 are the most competent of all prior gens BMW has made, despite weight/ looks yada yada. As for GT4, nothing to see here, it's already highly regarded as one of the best sports cars money can buy. It's price point in NA also reflects that, M3/M4 is cheap in comparison.
M3/M4 was never a replacement or substitute for a GT4 so the fact that this new generation of M3/M4 can be competitive on a track with something as incredible as a GT4 is massive compliment to the BMW. No other generation of M3/M4 was this competitive despite all the noise we hear from the dissenters on the interwebs.
If money was no object, my dream garage would have a PDK GT4 and a run of the mill Lexus. One for reliability and under the radar commute and the other for sheer driving pleasure and hooliganism.
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I've both been out driven and have out driven GT4's on the track in my F80 and I am nowhere close to being the fastest on the track. In fact I know a lot of F80 drivers who track and regularly beat GT3's let along GT4's. The G80 might close the gap even more between itself and the GT4, but it's not the first time the M3/4 was competitive with the "big boys".
Case in point: the F80 M3 CS was two seconds faster than the 981 GT4 (7:38 vs 7:40) on the Ring.