The dealer markup on this 2016 BMW M4 GTS is more than the cost of a new M3

Gallery: 2016 BMW M4 GTS brings water injection to the track (and the street)

The 2016 BMW M4 GTS is about as close as you can get to driving a BMW race car away from a dealer’s showroom. The water-injected and turbocharged 3.0-liter I6 sends 493 hp and 442 lb-ft of twist to the rear wheels. That brings the 0-60 time down to a scant 3.7 seconds. Add to that a boy racer-spec rear wing, an adjustable coil-over suspension and a roll bar and you’ll have a serious-looking Bimmer coupe.

You’ll also need to throw down a ton of money to get your name on the title of one of these track monsters. Imgur user shadster911 spotted one of these at a BMW dealer and took a shot of the window sticker. With an MSRP of $134,200, this BMW is kind of a bargain, considering it’s ready to set solid lap times out of the box and it’s a limited-production vehicle.

The 75 percent worth of market adjustment brings the price of this BMW M4 GTS to $252K.

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If you take a look at the window sticker above, you’ll see a small note about market adjustment. For those out of the new-car-buying loop, that’s a contemporary way of saying “dealer markup,” and this BMW has been marked up — er, market-adjusted — shamelessly.

If that $134K price tag was too affordable, don’t worry: With $18K worth of carbon-fiber wheels and $100K of markup, this BMW now sets you back $252K (before fees).

Maybe this Bimmer dealer liked the car so much that he wanted to keep it around?

Wesley Wren

Wesley Wren has spent his entire life around cars, whether it’s dressing up as his father’s 1954 Ford for Halloween as a child, repairing cars in college or collecting frustrating pieces of history—and most things in between. Wesley is the current steward of a 1954 Ford Crestline Victoria, a 1975 Harley-Davidson FXE and a 1959 Ford Fairlane 500 Galaxie. Oh yeah, and a 2005 Kia Sedona.