You'd expect a new model announcement for BMW to take place at the enormous Frankfurt Motor Show next week, but for one specific model, the launch will actually take place somewhere a little more exciting - the new BMW M4 /// M Heritage edition will be first shown off at the Nürburgring race track, at the big DTM (German touring cars) race on the 13th of September.
Run-out M4 edition
Basically, the ///M Heritage version of the M4 (sorry about the typographical silliness - it's BMW's idea. Will we just go with M Heritage from here on?) is a run-out edition of the current M4, before the arrival of both a new 4 Series Coupe and a new four-wheel-drive M4 next year. Some 750 M Heritage versions will be built, using the 450hp twin-turbo straight-six engine from the standard M4 and M3.
Three colour choices
The M Heritage cars will be available in only three colours, designed to reflect the classic blue, red and purple badge of BMW's M division. So you can choose from Laguna Seca Blue, Velvet Blue metallic or Imola Red, and that's it. As well as the special paint jobs (and if you don't pick the Velvet Blue purple, you can't be our friend) you get a special M stripe for the carbon-fibre roof. Also unique to the M Heritage model are 20-inch lightweight forged alloy wheels finished in Orbit Grey.
Inside, you get two-tone full leather seats, with big holes for the six-point harness that you're never going to fit. The leather colour is keyed to the exterior paint, and there's contrast stitching too. If you go for Laguna Seca Blue or Velvet Blue, then the seats come in Silverstone and Black with turquoise stitching or Velvet Blue and Orange, respectively. With the Imola Red paint, the seat colours red and black correspond with yellow and red contrast stitching.
As well as that, the M Heritage cars have basically had their cabins dipped into a bucket of carbon-fibre, all of which features the tri-colour M-stripe, and there's a contrast-stitched M Heritage logo on the seat headrests. Oh, and a numbered plaque on the dash.
No mechanical changes
And that's it. There are no mechanical mods or engine power boosts - these cars, bar the paint and badges, are identical to a standard M4, assuming an M4 can ever be described as 'standard.'