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Everyday Driver Car Debate

TestDrive: BMW M440i

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Leisure, Hobbies, Automotive

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The BMW M440i test drive. Write to us with your Car Debates, Car Conclusions, and Topic Tuesdays at everydaydrivertv@gmail.com or everydaydriver.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's catch up to all the traffic. Yeah, why not? And see, downshift. Yeah, use all the track. And we're good.

0:08.0

You can't see anything against this on power. No, you really can't. The BMW 440i X Drive, Grand Coupe, see if I can add a couple extra

0:19.2

words on there. The beaver-teafed green one. There's the title. It's a mouthful of name and beaver-teaf. Everything up there.

0:27.2

It's all of the above. There's a lot going on here. Well, here it is. BMW is the king of niche models. You remember this, right?

0:33.2

Because they will insert some sort of niche thing between two models you thought there really wasn't much difference between the two.

0:41.2

This is the next generation and it is six inches longer. The wheelbase is almost two inches longer. It's bigger.

0:48.2

It's two inches taller. It's one inch wider. The track is wider. Everything about this car is bigger.

0:53.2

Bigger than it was. Wow, I'm going fast. Faster than I thought. You don't have to try in this car. It just does that.

1:00.2

That's the thing that BMW is actually best at. I still think that they may be the king of drive trains.

1:06.2

You think so? A drive trains. What I mean is just the engine transmission combinations are smooth and powerful and faster than you think in any of their models.

1:16.2

It doesn't matter what you're talking about. That's true. And almost every time I read a stat from BMW on their powertrain, I just think, no, it's more powerful than that.

1:24.2

They're sandbagging because it's lightning fast. It is so good off the line. Well, that's because it has that 48-volt starter generator that provides 11 extra horsepower off the line when you're passing people.

1:37.2

And you're going to look down and realize you're about to get a ticket all the time. I kind of like that.

1:45.2

I kind of like it. Loading fruit for you. Really is. I want the power because with a car this heavy, 4169 pounds.

1:55.2

So it's a heavy car. It moves. It's scampers. It just goes, which is what I love. This car, I don't understand why it needs to exist.

2:09.2

I actually agree with you on that. Why is it this? Do you really? Why is this?

2:15.2

What I've been thinking about a lot is we recently drove five, six months ago. We drove the other four series that they've sent us.

2:22.2

Yes. They sent us the 430i convertible. There's two things that are key differences here. First off, that was the convertible and it was the smaller engine.

2:33.2

And we recall during that entire review, we would not shut up about how fast that car felt with the small engine.

2:41.2

Well, here we have the bigger car, bigger engine because it's still the four series, which means we get beaver teeth.

2:45.2

But now we've been closed it. It's not the coupe. It's the Grand Coupe pay because what you should do is make a coupe version and then decide the coupe version should have a sedan.

2:56.2

And the other thing that's interesting is the 440i only comes X-Drive. If you want rear wheel drive, you have to go to the smaller engine.

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