BMW and Polyphony Digital, Inc. will make their rare BMW M Performance
M4 Safety Car into a playable reality in the Gran Turismo 6 game on PlayStation 3, which is at a newly reduced price for the holidays.
And I'm not talking about virtual versions of real - life vehicles such as the 2015 Nissan GT - R Nismo or the 2014 BMW
M4 Safety Car, but the craziest Vision Gran Turismo creation to hit GT6's race tracks.
This is achieved by employing the same clever water - injection technology first seen on the MotoGP
M4 Safety Car we drove in April last year.
Not exact matches
Amongst the acres of stitched leather surfaces and matt - finished carbonfibre trim sit
safety car light controls and the one - piece buckets from the
M4 GTS.
Under the CFRP hood, BMW fitted the concept's twin - turbo 3.0 - liter inline - six engine with a new water injection system, which AUTOMOBILE European Bureau Chief Georg Kacher sampled earlier this year in the BMW
M4 MotoGP
Safety Car.
But unlike the company's purely fossil fueled performance
cars —
M4, M5 et al — which could speed well past 156 miles per hour were they not electronically limited, the i8 would struggle to go faster even if the
safety nanny was removed.
The brand is staying tight lipped as to what the system actually is, but it's no secret BMW has been experimenting with performance upgrades, as seen with the water injection system used on the
M4 GTS Coupe to be used as a
safety car in top - line MotoGP bike racing.
On the
safety tech front, my
M4 test
car's menu is a little light, only having a backup camera and optional head - up display.
It relaxes the thermal constraints on power and torque, and has already proved itself on race tracks around the world this season, on board the BMW
M4 MotoGP
Safety Car.
The BMW
M4 Coupe's role will be this years MOTO GP
Safety car, featuring a number of BMW M Performance parts available for the B...
The BMW
M4 Coupe's role will be this years MOTO GP
Safety car, featuring a number of BMW M Performance parts available for the BMW
M4 Coupe.