2022 BMW M3 Competition xDrive Review: The Ideal M3 for Canada?

Auto123 reviews the 2022 BMW M3 Competition xDrive.

The last time we test drove this muscular German-bred car was in June of last year, when BMW's Canadian division invited a few journalists to come and check out the M division's latest creations at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in Bowmanville, a few stones’ throws from Toronto.

See also: Comparison: 2021 BMW M3 vs BMW M4 Competition, or the Manual v Automatic Debate

It was an instructive exercise, in that we could learn and experience the differences between the M and M Competition performance levels, and also get a feel for this latest generation of the M3/M4 tandem.

Like the big M5, the newest M3 and M4 models can also leave the factory with BMW’s in-house all-wheel drive system, dubbed xDrive. It should be noted, however, that this variant arrived later in 2021. No chance to test it, in other words, before the snow arrived. Hence the white stuff on the ground in our images. This was just fine with the M3 Competition xDrive and its Michelin Pilot Alpin 5 winter tires that we test-drove just before winter bid its final au revoir, for now.

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