The M4 Coupé F82, 2014 to 2020, is the two-door twin of the M3 F80 — same S55 straight-six, same philosophy, different body. It was the first M4 of any kind, simply because the car had been called M3 Coupé before.
The single most distinctive part is the roof. The F82 comes with a carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic roof as standard, its weave visible under the lacquer. It is lighter than steel and lowers the centre of gravity — and as a used part it is a category of its own: a steel roof from an F32 is not a drop-in substitute, and a damaged carbon roof cannot be beaten out.
Elsewhere the F82 is not simply a wide F32 either: front and rear wings are flared, bumpers, sills and the two-piece mirror stalks are M-specific, and the aluminium bonnet with its power dome is its own part too. Accordingly we hold the condensers, door cards and fog lamps the F82 shares with an F32.
Shared with the F32 are the doors and boot lid. Inside, only the seating, wheel and dials were reworked — everything you actually touch to operate the car came out of a 4 Series.
