The BMW M4 Competition in grey with a black and white interior is a Prometheus Exotics rental based in Orange County, the only rear wheel drive car of the four M4 Competitions we keep there. Grey stays quiet on the street while rear drive moves the balance under your foot on Ortega Highway, booked by the enthusiast who asks for it by name.
Rear wheel drive is the mechanism that separates this car from the other three M4 Competitions we run, and it is a meaningfully different experience for it. Without a front axle sharing the load, all 503 horsepower goes to the back tyres, and you feel that in how the car leaves a corner rather than how it launches from a stop. Ortega Highway is the road that rewards this car specifically, since the balance shifts under your right foot instead of being managed for you the way it is in the xDrive cars. The twin turbo straight six still pulls cleanly to the limiter in one continuous run. On a technical road this is the M4 enthusiasts ask for by name.
Grey is the color for the renter who does not want to be looked at, and on this shape it turns an aggressive car into something closer to a sleeper. What makes it interesting in frame is the interior, black with white, which reads as a hard graphic contrast the moment a door opens and gives a completely different photograph from the exterior shots. Do both, ideally from a parking structure roof near South Coast Plaza where the carbon weave shows from above. The grey paint holds detail in flat, overcast light where darker cars in our fleet go shapeless, which makes it the easiest M4 to shoot at the wrong time of day.
This is the only rear wheel drive M4 we run in Orange County. The other three send power to all four wheels and leave a stop in 3.4 seconds. This one sends it all to the back, takes 3.8 seconds, and is the one enthusiasts ask for by name because the balance moves under your foot on a road like Ortega Highway instead of being managed for you. If the drive is the point rather than the arrival, this is the car in the group. Grey with a black and white cabin keeps it understated, which matches the way it prefers to be driven rather than seen.
This M4 Competition is finished in grey with a black and white interior, and unlike the other three cars in this group it sends power through rear wheel drive rather than xDrive, which is standard for this specific build rather than an option. Carbon roof weave, quad exhaust tips and 19 and 20 inch staggered wheels are standard to the Competition trim, along with the M Sport seat unless a build carries the optional carbon buckets. Four seats and a full trunk carry passengers and gear the same as the rest of the group. The rear wheel drive layout is the one specification here that changes how the car actually behaves, not just how it looks.