BMW has announced two M Performance Editions - one for the M5 and one for the M3 - exclusively for the UK market. Just thirty of each will be available, at £74,080 for the M3 M Performance Edition and £95,140 for the M5 M Performance Edition.
Intended to showcase the sort of bespoke work BMW Individual can do for customers, the new M cars herald the arrival of three new 'frozen' (read: matt) paint colours; BMW Individual Japan Red with a Frozen Red wrap, BMW Individual Frozen White and BMW Individual Frozen Blue.
Eagle-eyed readers might spot a certain patriotic Jubilee theme to those colours, at which point we can all chortle about a German company celebrating the, er, British royal family. Yes, we'll leave that there...
Back on message, the M5s come with Black Merino leather upholstery (the M3 gets 'extended' Black Novillo leather) and both M3 and M5 get contrasting Mugello Red, Lotus White or Tobago Blue stitching as standard.
There are no mechanical tweaks for either car (although the M3 gets the Competition Pack as standard, meaning 10mm lowered suspension, Electronic Damper Control with Sport mode and a revised DSC+ system), but there is a slew of extra equipment for both cars.
...and blue. God save the Queen!
But while the M5 Performance Edition gets £22,075 of options for - er - a price hike of £22,075, which in some ways seems fair enough, the M3 version will cost you £16,075 over a regular M-DCT M3, but only gives you £9,790-worth of kit. No, we can't quite work that out either...