Forget the name; The M8 Grand Coupe Competition is a double carriageway sedan that kills.
The 2020 BMW M8 Grand Coupe Competition brings the weight of BMW’s technical wisdom to a longer body of 9 inches, 1.4 inches wider and 2.3 wider than its two-door brother. If you want an M8, but you have a whole family, it makes a lot more sense than the strangely narrow back seat of a coupe that isn’t Great.
The BMW M8 Grand Coupé and the M8 Grand Coupé Competition are supplied with the same transmission: a 4.4-liter twin-engine V8, eight-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive. The maximum speed is 155 mph, which can be greater than 190 mph with the M drive force organization.
In the M8 Grand Coupé, this powertrain develops six hundred horsepower and 553 lb-ft of torque, while the festival has a power of 617 horsepower with the same amount of torque. The sprint times are 3.1 seconds for the GC and 3 second planes for the GC Competition.
The engine is supplied with two turbochargers, cross-exhaust manifolds, direct injection and cooling and oil supply. Turbochargers are located on the V of the engine block to aid thermal power and response.
The M xDrive AWD formula is backward-facing and sends torque to the front wheels when more traction is required. BMW says the formula reduces the need for traction control, reducing strength loss. Like the M5, the M8 GC Comp has a 2WD mode for slight drifts.
The BMW M8 Grand Coupé is supplied with five arms, double triangulation and rear front suspensions with exclusive rings, swivel bearings and handles. The adaptive suspension M reads the knowledge of various resources to adjust the shock individually.
The guidance formula is electromechanical and its electrical assistance is velocity sensitive and has a variable relationship. When the wheels are rotated, the frame teeth are closer together, so smaller entrances are needed.
The BMW M8 Grand Coupe 2020 receives shift cams for eight-speed buttons and two M buttons that drivers can configure as M mode settings.
The BMW M8 Large Coupe 2020 now has a single button on the center console to adjust engine, suspension and xDrive settings. Now there are also braking modes: comfort and sport.
As big as the M8 coupe is, the rear seats are strangely small. If you have more than two or 3 other people in the family, you may be forced to travel on an M8 Grand Coupe. If you have five other people, you may need to look elsewhere.
The M8 Gran Coupe Competition comes standard with black full Merino leather with beige microfiber. Options include full Merino leather in Silverstone, Sakhir orange/black, beige, Taruma brown and black. BMW Individual offers (at a cost) ivory white/night blue or ivory white/Tartufo full Merino leather interiors.
What can I say? Along the way, the M8 Grand Coupe Competition, which is stiffer than the base of the great Coupé, is an explosion. Automatic transmission is almost the best to prevent or drive at 75 mph on the road (do you need twenty dollars? I can do it, says the M8). The paddles, especially in the plus game mode, replace almost as fast as a dual-clutch gearbox.
Personally, I’d like to see a decrease and more aggressiveness in the M8 coupe than in the Great Coupe, but with the kids, that’s what I’d like if I were looking for a $140,000 luxury rocket. The seats clung easily, however, picking up the maximum sensitive strap was painful because the sticking component was hidden in this small area of the headrest. Fortunately, the maximum of other people will only have to do it once.
I love adjustable brakes. I met them for the first time on the track in the “real” coupe, and I replaced the sports setup in every BMW that has the option. No pedal racing, lots of stops. That, plus the power, makes this car lighter than its 4480-pound vacuum weight.
The M8 Grand Coupé is large enough that the overall imperfections of the road do not disturb it. In fact, if you drive in slightly less width than 10.8 inches (the width of the tire), you might not even feel it. But like the old Wes Raynal, I keep my suspension in convenient mode around those parts, and the rest is set up for maximum sport.
If you play in this rarefied air, you can also see the Mercedes-AMG S63 and maybe the Audi S8, the strength of those other two is reduced. You probably won’t be disappointed anyway. The BMW is probably the most sporty, the sumptuous top Mercedes and the Audi somewhere in between.