{"id":15131,"date":"2022-02-10T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=15131"},"modified":"2022-02-10T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T17:26:00","slug":"m3-competition-car-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=15131","title":{"rendered":"BMW M3 Competition is a Motor Trend Performance Car of the Year Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

It used to be that the BMW M3 simply walked into different \u201cBest Car\u201d awards, declared itself a winner, and went home. For decades, it was leaps and bounds ahead of its competition. Now, though, there are sub-$35,000 hatchbacks that can provide the same level of driver engagement. Which is why this year\u2019s Motor Trend Performance Car of the Year<\/a> award is so fascinating. The BMW M3 Competition<\/a> is among the finalists but the rest of the finalists are damn good, too.<\/p>\n

This new G80 BMW M3 Competition is a brilliant driver\u2019s car, good enough to wipe the antagonistic grin off of any grille-hater\u2019s face. My own included. It\u2019s a sensational machine to actually push hard, with a front end that\u2019s almost impossibly grippy, one of the best powertrains in the world, and a chassis that\u2019s willing to dance every bit as hard as its driver. That said, there are several other cars on the market just like it.<\/p>\n

Among the other MT PCOTY finalists are the Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing, the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing<\/a>, and the Hyundai Veloster N. Read that back slowly and then pause for a moment while you reflect on the three cars that were just listed. As a BMW enthusiast, did you ever think you\u2019d see the day when three of the M3\u2019s toughest competitors, cars that could genuinely be considered better driver\u2019s cars, were two Cadillacs and a Hyundai?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s most important here is that all three are as legitimate contenders for this award as the BMW M3. The M3 is a legend, a car born from a homologated touring car, and there\u2019s a flipping Hyundai that can rival it for driver enjoyment? Not only are these strange times, they\u2019re incredibly exciting times.<\/p>\n

These cars are just the finalists named on Day 1 of the awards testing. There will be more and it will be interesting to see how far the BMW M3 Competition makes it. It\u2019s a fantastic driver\u2019s car but it isn\u2019t without its flaws and the competition is stiffer than ever before. I\u2019m genuinely curious to see how it all shakes out.<\/p>\n

[Source: Motor Trend<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It used to be that the BMW M3 simply walked into different \u201cBest Car\u201d awards, declared itself a winner, and went home. For decades, it was leaps and bounds ahead of its competition. Now, though, there are sub-$35,000 hatchbacks that can provide the same level of driver engagement. Which is why this year\u2019s Motor Trend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}