2023 BMW M3 CS review. With 550bhp, it's the most powerful M3 ever but is it the best? 

I personally love the styling

Well said . It’s a ugly mess !!

Very much so.

It seems to be a trend now that all, and I mean ALL, automotive reviewers give this gen a pass, excusing the design as quirky.

What this means is "thank you for agreeing with me"

agreed, the screens should just be a place to put all the extra stuff that you can mess with when you're not driving.

Couldn't agree more. It's just trend for the sake of it (blame Tesla for starting it - out of saving money due to a simpler manufacturing process - but blame the other marques for following blindly even more so)

It's just because the touch screen is much cheaper.

Well, at least the START button is still there unlike on all new FERRARIs!!!

Jesus. All the complaining about lack of buttons. I had an ‘07 MDX, and a ‘14 Cayenne. Most buttons EVER. I’ve also owned a Model 3 and have a G80 coming. This is enough buttons. Everything is auto these days anyway!

yeh that cut was so jarring it was like wow!

E46 iM3s just perfect, I think

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@@Abril-km7vo I might if Allah can have a word with the BMW styling department.

@@joshuarosen6242 🤣🤣

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I haven’t seen any other reviewer that actually likes the styling 😂 so idk what you’re on about.

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@@fifteen8850Chris Harris and Sam (from Seen Through Glass) have both said it has grown on them. The only way it looks better is if there are even worse designs next to it. BMW XM and iX are both strong contenders. The Alfa and the Project 8 both look fantastic, so it really suffers in that company. I truly hate it and everything that BMW has become, but since I would be unlikely to buy one anyway, they clearly shouldn’t care what I think.

Can you imagine the BMW media person watching this,? Slap forehead!!!!

Ah this is the beauty of opinion. His opinion on looks is different to mine. I quite like the M3 CS look.

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@@Abril-km7vo Enjoy your night, mate…

@@Abril-km7voremember to take your meds everybody. This poor chap is a prime example of the consequences

THIS^^^ It's extraordinarily frustrating that manufacturers have gone down this road, so transparently only because it's cheap. Any objective assessment of usability and indeed safety could not fail to find buttons/rotary knobs preferable, yet here we are driving along, distractedly fannying about with hideously over-complex, impossible to use without looking directly at them controls for things as basic as heating. I'm hanging on to my mercifully still-reliable and enjoyable 7 year old, 100,000 mile Golf estate largely because I cannot abide the Mk 8 Golf dash - the Mk 7 dash is both aesthetically and practically so vastly superior. But it's not only the Golf - it's seemingly everything these days. Clearly I'm just going to have to run my trusty non-touchscreen steed forever, possibly like Trigger runs his broom..!

It is vastly cheaper for the manufacturer to eliminate the buttons and just access the systems via the stupid ugly fingerprint coated screen. Not sure the manufacturers are passing on the cost savings to their customers though….

Best era for the modern car was somewhere between 2006 and 2015. Still comforatble, good looks, quality etc. Not too much emissions nonsense

@@stever2168 Whenever someone raises the topic of giant screens and buttonless interiors, I always pin the blame on Tesla (and by extension Elon Musk) for making this trend take off like his SpaceX rockets. Now every manufacturer is copying this design because they don't want to lose even more market share to Tesla. I'm just grateful Musk hasn't decided to remove the steering wheel and pedals yet, but given the Cybertruck already features a steer-by-wire system i.e. no rack and pinion, we're already halfway there. EDIT: Forgot to mention the recent Tesla Model 3 moves the gear selector into the touch screen.

Yeah, that is the thing that annoys me the most in this review since I think that the design is great, one of the best looking M3's ever together with E46 and F80! The car has serious presence and masculinity, especially in person, and that is my opinion as a designer. Since the taste is subjective category, he shouldn't spend so much time convincing us that the car is ugly, since it isn't to many other people out there. He just becomes annoying and unbearable to watch!

@@Semendrija123 so ... don't watch?

talking of balls. If yours hang low and you're wearing loose trousers you will lose them getting in and out of it with those horrific seat side bolsters. Just horrible and a poor design imho.

God forbid someone actually likes the design. 🤦🏿‍♂️

Agreed. It's fabulous.

most bmw owners are on leases, they can't actually afford them

Some say the CS badge stand for C..T Special.

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M only stands for Marketing nowadays.

Alpinas are beautiful cars but nowhere near as sharp or engaging as M cars let alone CS versions. Very different audience actually.

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That is normaly the case, yes. But I had the opportunity to drive the latest B3 on the track last year and was surprised how tight it actually was. Try it I say. @@MadDaCube

​@Abril-km7vo Your Allah let hungerness happen in Africa.

I say that about my wife all the time

The colour truly makes it worse in white

The answer is a three-letter word. BMW

@@sashadog2323 You will soon know how it feels to be alone.

Agreed.

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Yes and the side and the back and the top...sigh

If you get confused between "your" and "you're" you aren't saying those words very well

​ @DefenderPuma You missed two punctuation marks there, mate.

@@DirectInput cool stuff

Boss level illiteracy, mate! 😂🤣😂 "compered" is pure genius! 😁

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⁠@@Abril-km7vo Allllahhhhhhhhhhhh

@@Abril-km7vo How about a big, fat, juicy no. Spam is spam wherever it is and whatever it is about. Spam is made from beautiful, glorious Pork, by the way. Mmmmm, Pork.

Go watch the car wow vids where he does it Infront of the manufacturers press staff, particularly Mercedes, he points out all the crap bits and makes them squirm.

Most “journalists” have been loaned these cars in order to promote a positive buzz for the latest model or whatever. They say whatever they want to impress the brand and therefore maintain a relationship and guarantee future models to “review”. Harry’s approach might sever the relationship but at least he’s honest, unlike most!

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Perhaps I'm prejudiced as a former owner, but I think the E60 aged fantastically and ended up a very handsome car. I thought the F10 was a bit inoffensive in comparison so ended up going straight from E60 to G30.

Could you give us a comparison between the f80 and the G80 in term of driving experience? I heard most of the journalists prefer the G8x but they may be biased

Funny enough everyone was saying about the E60 what everyone has been saying about the G80 styling wise…

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@@kvgbui565I don’t think they’re biased at all. Why would they be?

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That's not a bad idea, Charlie drop this man a knighthood for services to the motor industry and me the general public. Bet the farmers would agree too.

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Such an elegant design- I have a Techno Violet one- Harry's favourite colour! Aesthetics are gowping, especially in white. This car has no spirutual connection to the E36 M3, except the 6 cylinder mill, which is great to see back under the bonnet. The arms race with Merc/Audi/etc has driven up weight, so that we have 1¾ tonne 'sports' cars which admittedly disguise their heft well most of the time. Yet those 16 bags of cement can't stay hidden all of the time...

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@@Abril-km7vomy buddies and I have sent a few people to meet him.

As BMW continues align with the 'German rainbow' colour palette - consisting of white, silver, grey or black - which includes about 150 shades of grey - I expect that a charcoal grey would be available.

I suspect it’ll sell out for two reasons 1. There are lots of people with more money than taste and 2. Resellers making a quick buck

The Chinese market represents circa 30% of BMWs sales. I bet it will sell like hot cakes within the Chinese market - as they prefer cars with a goofy, cartoonish front end - i.e. the goofier the better.

A touring & regular m3 is also a dogs dinner . Ugly mess the entire g80 model 🤮🤮

I've got an F82 M4 CS in San Marino Blue. It's an absolute gorgeous animal of a car. Bought it after cancelling a G82 M4 xdrive. 460bhp 600nm of torque and 1550 kgs. Proper car. You won't be disappointed and you'll save 20-30k on a G80/82

@@davida7713 agree. In general they all have challenging looks.

@@garethjackson6139 congrats. It’s a lovely looking thing. I went for a Jag F Type R instead of the CS. A very different car and I knew the Jag was going to be a lot less special. My example cost a good chunk less than the CS and ultimately that the was the deciding factor. I do wonder “what if” though. All the best with it :-)

@@matt1081 you too sir. I do love the F Types - great looking cars.

Finally a accurate representation & description of the new g80 m3 & this cs in particular. Overrated overpriced & down right a ugly mess with lines all over the place 🤮 What were bmw thinking especially as they have previously made many beautiful m cars in the past like for example the e46 m3 csl .

still driving my E39 M5 bought in 2001. Waiting for something prettier. and waiting