BMW M4 Competition v Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 | Evo

isn’t just a look: it weighs almost 1900kg. For $10k you can get a Carbon Fiber Track Pack that includes carbonfibre road wheels and saves 50kg, but maybe you could just wear a thinner jumper and pop to the loo before you drive. Despite weighing as much as a fully loaded luxury saloon, the GT500 still bests the M4’s power-to-weight ratio by a substantial margin, boasting over 400bhp per ton to just under 300 for the BMW.

The way the Mustang launches, V8 hollering like a NASCAR, and then eats up gears with seamless upshifts is stunning and a bit scary. The supercharged 5.2-litre V8 might not be as technically pure as the flat-plane-crank V8 of the GT350 but it’s a seriously engineered bit of kit: all aluminium alloy, 32 valves, forged pistons and it revs to 7500rpm. Keep the throttle pinned and it’ll nail the quarter mile in 11 seconds flat and hit an electronic limiter at 180mph.

Perhaps because you sit on the left in the Mustang you’re more acutely aware of the precision of its steering and the value of feedback.

Hopping back into the BMW is a culture shock, and a bit of a pain: the high, hard side of the bucket seat means for easy ingress or egress you have to motor it backwards. Intrinsically, however, they’re very good seats, a snugger fit than the Ford’s and set lower in a coupe that feels lower built too, with its centre of gravity closer to the ground.Right from the off, there’s a greater sense of connection through the steering and a more connected feel through the seat too.

These two look like mates

No, but that's not it's purpose. Still, it's not for me and I'd take the BMW seven days a week and twice on Sunday.

It looks miles better than the M4. Also sounds better

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