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Drag Race: BMW M4 vs Corvette Stingray C7

Now that the new BMW M4 Coupe is out, the world of drag racing has yet another car to add to their favorites list. Even though M cars are usually built to be faster on tracks rather than on straight drag strips, that doesn’t mean they can’t handle themselves in every situation.
BMW M4 vs Corvette Stingray 1 photo
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Usually, American sports car fall, by default, in the ‘muscle car’ category because of their pure grunt, huge engines and massive weight. The rumor going around is that they can’t really go around corners but they will eat you up in a drag race, Fast and Furious style, like Vin Diesel did a couple of years ago.

However, in recent years things changed and, while the Americans learned how to make proper suspensions for their cars and managed to get them around corners, the Europeans (mostly Germans) learned how to make their own cars more powerful and faster in the straight line.

The different cultures are still visible under the bonnet though. The race your about to see here, between a brand new BMW M4 and a Corvette C7 Stingray is more than it seems at first.

It’s a battle of new age tech that cares about eco stuff and the good-old fashioned ‘I don’t give a F’ mentality of the Americans that will simply fit any engine inside their cars, as long as it makes it faster.

Ergo, the BMW has a 3-liter, 6-cylinder bitubo engine under the bonnet making 431 HP and 550 Nm (406 lb-ft) of torque while the Corvette has a 6.1-liter V8 naturally aspirated unit that makes 450 HP and 450 lb-ft (610 Nm) of torque. Notice the difference? The BMW makes roughly the same power using half the engine.

While the numbers might seem favorable to the Chevy, in a straight up race, the BMW takes the win, thanks to its marginally lighter construction and super-fast 7-speed DCT gearbox.

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