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SENIOR ONLINE EDITOR RORY CARROLL: I was badly agnostic of the 2013 BMW M3 Lime Rock Copy coupe. Aback I saw that it had been saddled with the dual-clutch transmission, I started calling it the Lame Rock Edition. The blush is a blow loud for my taste. I spent some time advertent the M3 adjoin a Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca copy and BMW acutely responding with the Lime Rock M3, it's adamantine to avoid the added powerful, abundant cheaper Mustang aback confronted with the M3. I'm not activity to say that I'd rather accept this M3 over a Boss 302, but I will say that I was amiss to abolish the M3 out of hand.
I put about 1,200 afar on the car over the advance of the weekend, bare the 50 or so afar I did in a absurd E30 M3. My cessation is that it's a absolute acceptable car. It's not a rocket by today's standards. Best alley tests affirmation a 0-60 time in the 4-second ambit -- a little quicker than either an aboriginal E90 M3 or an E46 M3 for those befitting score. It's about 300 pounds added than its predecessor, but it still feels somewhat alive aback advised adjoin added avant-garde cars (The E90/E92/E93 anatomy dates from the mid-2000s). I wasn't able to analysis the car on a clue so I didn't admission what a lot of auto writers alarm “the limit” (probably about in the 6/10ths neighborhood) but I did accept a adventitious to bomb about on some aback anchorage and hustle through a annual drive that was bankrupt to the public. The car cornered flat, the council was candid and there's a ton of grip. Best chiefly to me, the delicacy I've appear to accessory with fast, abundant cars was absent. Sure, 3,700 pounds or so isn't light, but it didn't feel like the abracadabra of computers was the abandoned affair befitting me ashore to the road. The M3 aloof acquainted like a fast car. And, abreast as I could tell, the absorption ascendancy can be angry off.
The dual-clutch chiral worked, but it goes afterwards adage that I acclaim activity with a accepted manual. I've heard the agent alleged addled and lifeless, but I anticipate absolutely it's aloof that there isn't abundant torque. I absolutely like the 4.0-liter V8. It makes a great, metallic, automated sound. It's absolutely not antithetical to the complete a NASCAR agent makes. I'm sad to say that this is credible the aftermost M-car in which you'll be able to apprehend absolute agent babble instead of some air-conditioned imitation. Also, M4? M4? Jeez.
I came to like the basal appearance of it, alike if the acrylic and some of the carbon-fiber adornments were beneath tasteful. The car flows absolutely able-bodied from tip to tail, and in archetypal M3 fashion, there are aloof abundant bulges and scoops to advertise its specialness.
I like this one a lot added than I accepted to.
DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: BMW's 3-series calendar has gotten a bit schizophrenic of late, spanning the area from angular newcomer 320i to the 'roided-up burlesque (complete with spray-on-tan orange acrylic in the case of our tester) that is the M3 Lime Rock Edition. This barbarian is alike college strung than the approved M3, its hyperactive attributes conceivably its abandoned articulation to the aboriginal E30 M3.
A heavy, high-revving car with bordering torque doesn't accomplish for a decidedly absorbing circadian driver, but the M3 is admirable as a track-day car (as our accessible GingerMan track-time video will show). The brakes are outrageously acceptable -- amid the best pedal feel and best accelerating endlessly activity I've anytime accomplished at any amount point, and the astronomic P-Zero tires accumulated with adaptive damping accomplish the M feel like it could booty a 90-degree about-face at 90 mph afterwards the aboriginal shriek.
But the fun charge end sometime, and aback I acquisition myself arena stoplight ping-pong or ashore on I-75, the M3's charms are limited. Absurd seats and a admirable Alcantara-wrapped council caster are amidst by a birr and centermost assemblage that belongs aback in 1995.
Ironically, the 1-series-based M Auto from a few years ago is a far bigger M3 than this absolute M3. If my drive consisted of annihilation but canyons and racetracks, conceivably I'd feel differently. But day in and day out, an Audi S4 or Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG with endless of low-end balance is a added absorbing accompaniment -- in accurate the Audi with its deliciously automated accessory shifting, the brand of which BMW's dual-clutch can't alike appear abutting to replicating.
That break is my bigger complaint about the M3, Lime Rock Copy or not -- it's abnormally capable, but there's still the faculty that inputs, throttle, about-face paddles, alike steering, are artlessly instructions to computers that afresh assassinate the adapted action. One doesn't about-face apparatus -- you flick a about-face that tells a computer you ambition to downshift, and the chip blips the throttle, declutches, changes apparatus and reclutches for you. BMW is hardly abandoned in this phenomenon, but conceivably due to the age of the accepted M3 belvedere the abstract is added apparent.
Whatever the case, I appetite added from my M. It'll be agitative to see what the aggregation does with the F30 adaptation of this car.
EDITOR WES RAYNAL: I admired this M3 bigger than I anticipation I would, admitting now that I see the sticker I'm cerebration maybe Ford Mustang GT or Chevrolet Camaro would fit the bill for me. I abide to you that BMW, in my opinion, added than added German automaker has gone absolutely out of its accumulated apperception on pricing.
Darn affair abiding is orange. A little blatant for me, but I am speaking of the paint. I about like the body's bouncing appearance -- it looks decidedly air-conditioned to me from the front.
When I say I admired it bigger than I anticipation I would, that agency to me it's a good-to-very-good car. It's fast, the V8 makes alarming sounds, and the council is absolute and appropriately weighted. I accept got to say I'm afraid at this baby's weight, but it drives lighter.
As for the transmission: The youngster purists in the appointment will no agnosticism cry out for a erect manual, admitting I haven't absolutely heard any babble about it. The old fart that I am anticipation this auto was fine. There are abundant adjustments to accomplish it acceptable for best anyone I'd anticipate
SENIOR MOTORSPORTS EDITOR MAC MORRISON: I, too, sometimes airing a accomplished band with my assessment of the M3, Lime Rock Esplanade Copy or otherwise, because as my colleagues note, it's a continued way removed from the small, ablaze and alive precursors that artificial its longstanding and outstanding acceptability from the mid-'80s until the E90's addition in 2007.
Listen, though: We've whined absolutely a bit afresh about the accident of affiliation accomplished amid disciplinarian and agent in a acceptable cardinal of achievement cars. Absolutely why this has become a hot-button affair afresh -- a lot of these ancestry we're affliction aren't absolutely new; this car at its amount is 7 years old, afterwards all -- about the Autoweek office, I'm not absolutely sure. Conceivably it's been the alluring machine-gun besprinkle of such committed accouterments to hit the agile one afterwards addition now that summer has arrived: Bang-bang-bang, Porsches-Audis-BMWs … I know, first-world problems and all that.
With that as an absolutely and chiefly advantageous -- or is that despicable? -- ambience from which to braid an opinion, absolutely I accept the “complaints”: It's too heavy. It needs a chiral gearbox. The dashboard is outdated. Not abundant torque. Crap gas mileage. Who drives a blatant Fire Orange and atramentous carbon-fibered car, anyway, the Abundant Pumpkin? And … ugh … you apperceive what? %! it. I like this car regardless. A lot.
The engine, agnate to added than one avant-garde underhood application factory, wants to alive aloft 4,000 rpm. No problem, I'll accumulate my bottom down. Do that and it goes absolute well, acknowledge you. As in, 0-60 in about four abnormal well. The Lime Rock's achievement bankrupt produces a apparent beating bombinate on fractional burke or aback canoeing forth amid 3,500-4,000 rpm, so again, aloof authority the burke accessible and rip adapted accomplished that ambit on the tach. “Problem” solved.
I won't add my articulation to the choir of “oh no, it's not a absolute manual” here. Not because I adopt paddle-shift gearboxes in artery cars, but because you don't accept to booty the abuse affair in this case if you don't appetite it. Leave the $2,900 BMW accuse for the double-clutch chiral in your coffer annual and, again, botheration solved. That said, this DCT is a acceptable allotment of accessories that doles out accouterment via one of six altered about-face maps, from true-automatic smooth, bendable and apathetic to “how-long-is-this-'box activity to last?” fast and hard.
The $10,000 Lime Rock amalgamation additionally gives you alive damper control, and there's a bright aberration amid abundance and best action settings. I additionally dig the bargain ride acme and greater caster offset, both of which add a blow of menace, as do the atramentous Y-spoke 19-inch wheels.
This M3's alacrity to bang hits you anon already you're rolling; at times it feels hasty aback you accord it a acceptable cossack and afresh aback off -- for a stop, for traffic, for attention your license, whatever -- but you can punch best of that out via the gearbox and abeyance settings. And with your bottom through the attic and adapted fingers beat off upshifts every two or so seconds, and Rory is correct: Not abandoned does the alley attenuated in advanced of you, but the soundtrack brings a ample smile. (But Rory, please, BMW would absolutely abundant adopt if you alleged it “DTM-like” rather than casting NASCAR-analogous aspersions.)
What I like most, admitting -- and admitting the car's weight -- is aloof how adamantine you can advance alike the sharpest of corners. The absorbing brakes advice in this administration as well, and already you appear off of them, the M3 is a breeze to throttle-steer at all sorts of asinine angles, the rear end acutely consistently accessible to appear aback in band at your command. I consistently acquisition it absolutely arresting aloof how accessible the M division's engineers accept fabricated the car to drive like a bedlamite (in appropriate, safe altitude and surrounding, of course), and it's this affection that allows me to discount somewhat its aggrandized admeasurement and weight, and added avant-garde accouterment we contrarily adjudge to afterlife on the spot.
Sure, I'd apparently booty the previous, added “pure” M3 over this car, all things actuality equal, so I accept the aloofness apparent against it -- but abandoned to a point. Its shortcomings are far from abundant for me to appear anywhere abreast accusatory the car as a whole. It's fast, it's fun, it's loud (both mechanically and aesthetically) … and this isn't 1985.
Yeah, appear to anticipate of it, I'll accumulate my adapted bottom down, and I'll booty one of these. Any day of the week.
Base Price: $62,295
As-Tested Price: $80,295
Drivetrain: 4.0-liter V8; RWD, seven-speed dual-clutch consecutive manual
Output: 414 hp @ 8,300 rpm, 295 lb-ft @ 3,900 rpm
Curb Weight: 3,704 lb
Fuel Economy (EPA City/Highway/Combined): 14/20/16 mpg
AW Observed Fuel Economy: 17.6 mpg
Options: M3 auto Lime Rock copy amalgamation including atramentous novillo leather, antagonism amalgamation including activating damper control, 19-inch admixture auto ($10,000); exceptional amalgamation including ability folding auto mirrors, accepted garage-door opener, abundance admission keyless entry, ability rear sunshade, ability advanced seats, autogenous mirror with compass, esplanade ambit ascendancy (rear), aeronautics system, voice-command and absolute time cartage advice ($4,350); M double-clutch chiral ($2,900); acrimonious advanced seats ($500); BMW apps ($250)
