If you race for BMW and you win a championship, there’s a good chance that the German automaker will create a limited edition car to celebrate your conquest and for bringing honor and glory to Bavaria. Two-time DTM Driver’s Champion Marco Wittman has received this honor twice, having won the DTM championship for BMW in 2014 and 2016. The German automaker subsequently celebrated those two titles by releasing special edition M4 models, both of which went on sale in very limited quantities. But the awards just keep coming to the 26-year-old German racer and the latest one comes in the form of an M Performance-enhanced, Java Green BMW M4 that BMW gave to its title-winning driver.
To be clear, the one-off M4 Coupe is different from the M4 DTM Champion Edition that BMW launched to celebrate Wittman’s DTM driver’s title. That model will be sold in limited quantities – only 200 units – in Germany. This particular Java Green M4 is for Wittman alone. It’s a literal one-off model and he has the keys to it. It’s his.
Wittman joked that the M4 is his new “company car,” and if it is indeed that, it’s a pretty incredible one at that. Not only does it have a unique paint finish, it also has an assortment of aerodynamic bits and pieces that BMW’s M Performance division installed specifically to make the car that much more exclusive. It’s no wonder that Wittman was effusive with praise when he was handed the keys to the car, even complementing the Java Green paint finish as a color that “suits me very well.”
We’d be appreciative too if BMW built a one-off car specifically for us. Beyond the car though, the gesture is something that isn’t new to the German automaker. It’s built a lot of this special edition models for championship-winning race cars, past and present. Even Marc Marquez, the three-time Moto GP champion who doesn’t even race for BMW – he races for Repsol Honda – has been the recipient of special edition BMW cars as part of the company’s BMW M Awards in MotoGP. Marquez took ownership of a BMW M2 a few weeks after winning the M Award for the fourth time in a row, establishing his own reputation as the fastest qualifier in MotoGP.
But as nice as Marquez’s new M2 is, Wittman’s one-off M4 is a little saucier in our eyes. Translation: we like that one better.
Continue after the jump to read more about the BMW M4 Coupe “Wittman” Edition.
from Top Speed http://ift.tt/2gj5q6h
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