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Top Gear recently had a drive in BMW's M4 MotoGP Safety Car and it's far from just an M4 with some graphics applied. The Safety Car has to be safe, so it gets a roll cage, Recaro race seats and 6 six point harness to keep the drive and passenger put inside. Keeping it put on the track are a set of KW coil-overs and upgraded brakes. To make sure it gets where it needs to be on the track quickly, the M4 gets water-injection added to its turbo inline-six, which brings power output to an estimated 467 hp. That's a rough estimate according to the Top Gear article and it's possible that the hp number could actually hover in the 5xx range.

Here's what TG had to say about the M4 Safety Car:

The power increases might be at the upper end of the M4's rev range, but the Safety Car actually feels more benign in its delivery than the stock M4, despite its greater potency. A couple of laps around the flat, wide - and thankfully huge run-off-area-equipped - Losail International Circuit in Qatar underlines that this feels like a very different M4.

Initially that's down to the way it steers, the wheel familiar in its weighting, but adding so much more immediacy and information, even on the glass-smooth tarmac of the circuit. The suspension has a lot to do with that. Add the grasping hold of those Recaro seats and their tight six-point harnesses, and the limits of BMW M4 Safety Car feel so much more approachable and readable, the engine's delivery less difficult too, even at lower revs.

Yet if talk of 500bhp is true, the M4 Safety Car is a rare machine in that it allows such grand power to be so easily deployed, and enjoyed. It sounds magnificent too, thanks to what Van Meel describes as a BMW Performance Parts exhaust with the centre muffler removed.

Read the full article on Top Gear's drive in the M4 MotoGP Safety Car here!
 

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