MoneywebDRIVE: Feature
The best time to enjoy topless motoring is not in the heat of the day, but when
the sun has just dipped over the western horizon and there’s still enough warmth
The way you could well approach a BMW M4 Convertible
is the way you should approach
buying an exotic , thoroughbred
sports car – in the long run, the
open-topped car is going to be
worth more as an investment,
and in the mean-time, why not
smell the roses on a warm summer’s evening?
The big plus factor as far as the
M4 convertible is concerned, is
that being a steel-topped cabriolet, once the roof has locked
into place it has all the sophistication of a coupe. There’s proper sound-deadening lining in the
roof, the roof operation is completely hydraulic-electrical, so
no funny levers to tug, and with
the roof locked in place, there
are no creaks or groans from any
loose-fitting panels.
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At least there weren’t on the
test car, and presumably this
one had suffered a rather hard
life, with many hard kilometres in the hands of a string of
white-knuckled motoring writers,
as the launch of the M4 Convertible took place amidst the dying
braaivleis embers of 2014.
So why request a test drive now,
and endorse the car as the lead
story for this issue of MoneywebDRIVE? Simple. It’s a celebration
of the coming summer months
when our thoughts turn to having fun, driving spiritedly when
the mood takes us, and cruising
the quiet ‘burbs of an evening
with the top down.
The best time to enjoy topless
motoring is not in the heat of
the day, but when the sun has
just dipped over the western
horizon and there’s still enough
warmth to go driving top-down
in short sleeves. Here you can
burble along in a car like the M4,
in this case the model fitted with
the seven-speed M Dual Clutch
Transmission, which means in
auto mode you never have to
worry about dipping th