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Well, this could be awkward. Pulling into a viewing point on Gordon’s Bay’s picturesque Clarence Drive, the new BMW M4 Competition has driven into what can only be described as a family reunion of high-achievers; BMW M3s spanning four generations on the SA market, some utterly stock and others given an extra injection of power and visual attitude by their dedicated owners.

In a slight departure from a new car’s testing regimen by the CAR editorial team, we gathered these iconic members of BMW’s performance-car stable as a striking means of illustrating the evolution of M cars and exposing the impressive newcomer to    perhaps its most critical audience. We are talking about dyed-in-the-wool M enthusiasts; putting them behind the wheel to see just how the BMW M4 Competition measures up to both past legends and future expectations.

Having only just wrapped our heads around the styling treatment handed out to the G80 4 Series, the arrival of the new BMW M4 Competition has simply gone and pushed those boundaries further still.  The retina-searing São Paulo Yellow paintwork is a bold but not unanimously celebrated choice   of livery. It certainly managed to divide opinion among the enthusiasts present; some favourably comparing it to the Dakar Yellow once offered on the E36 M3, while others were keen to see how a darker hue might suit this challenging design.

In the company of its older relatives, it’s hardly an exercise   in subtlety. From the bulging haunches to the considerable vent-work and sheet metal creases, not to mention elements such as the scalloped crests of the bonnet’s power domes that conspire with those huge, louvred nostrils and narrow headlamps to paste a scowl on the car’s already aggressive face. It’s all a far cry from the likes of the E36’s boxy simplicity, the smooth-skinned subtlety of the E46 and the purposeful elegance of the E92.

Even the most cosmetically overhauled member of our company – Zaki Hendricks’ F80 sitting on 30 mm-lowered Eibachs, replete with 15 mm spacers to fill out those wheelarches, plenty of additional carbon-fibre styling bits and finished in Yas Marina Blue – seems relatively reserved by comparison.

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