Patience. It is required for most good things in life. If the man, woman, job, or in this case car of your dreams were to simply appear upon command, they all might be a bit less special. And so now, after a four-month wait, my patience was rewarded. Meet my Miami Blue M3.
The 2025 BMW M3 Competition in Miami Blue
Let’s talk color, because I suspect it’ll dominate the conversation whenever someone sees this car.
Miami Blue is from the Porsche catalog, and it can be found on anything from a 911 to a Macan. For BMW, the color was available on the F8X M3 and M4, and recently approved by BMW Individual to include in their list of per-approved colors on the G80. I know of one pre-LCI G80 painted this shade, and I will assume that I am one of the first to own said color in an LCI model.
Exclusivity matters less to me than simply enjoying the color, and I very much do. It’s about as bright as blue gets without going too pastel, like Borusan Turkish Blue. Miami is a solid, or UNI color in BMW speak, and thus non-metallic.
Happiness and sadness
Rather than going through the process of ordering the M Performance Suspension from Germany and having TySpeed install it, I just had my Client Advisor, Danny Wong, add it to the build. BMW installed it at the VPC once the car arrived from Germany. Doing it this way adds it to the Monroney label, making it a sort of official factory spec. Probably how the car should come anyway.
But my friends, I did not win the tire lottery – Pirellis it is. Seems to be what BMW is installing on the 2025 M3, for now anyway.
LCI, oh my
On the outside, I very much enjoy the new silver 825M wheels, and I look forward to cleaning them every third day.
The headlights are interesting. I did not spec the Shadowline option to keep with the brightwork theme, but no one even noticed I did the same on the old car. The LCI headlights do work better than the lasers, especially the brights, but I don’t think they look better or worse, simply different.
The silver trim around the M3 Competition badge on the trunk is a nice touch.
Inside it’s Kyalami Orange again, but this time extended leather. Silverstone would have been a good match as well, but I’m afraid it would be too difficult to keep clean for my level of car OCD. The new steering wheel shape looks great, but the optional Alcantara covering isn’t nearly as nice as my old M Performance wheel.
Elsewhere you lose some ambient lighting. I’ll bring over as much as I can from my old M3 inside, from door pins to floor mats, to enhance the look.
And the digital dash – what’s left to say? I can make do with it. The graphics are more refined at least.
Time to mod
Much of the items from the old car can be ported over, but some new surprises will be in store. I’ll also detail the process of selling the old M3 on Cars & Bids (feels weird to say that), but for now, I will simply enjoy driving the car around for the holidays.
See you soon!
Thanks to Danny Wong at Circle BMW for always coming through!
