The Joy of BMW's M340i xDrive Sport Plus: A Review

I must say, it's ridiculous to have two flat front tires on this car, but I was amazed by the fact that the Sport Plus model is totally different. It's a lot better, actually, and BMW didn't even tell anyone about its improvements. That's a good job, BMW! The m340i xDrive Sport Plus is still a great car, but it needs some tweaks to reach its full potential.

One of the standout features of this car is its acceleration. With launch control, I was able to go from 0 to 100 in just 4.6 seconds. That's impressive, especially considering that the standard m340i can't quite match that performance. But what really sets the Sport Plus apart is its mid-range boost. The mild hybrid system provides an extra kick, making the car feel more responsive and engaging.

Of course, no discussion of this car would be complete without mentioning its sound. Unfortunately, the stock exhaust note can feel a bit lacking. However, I've found a solution that fixes this issue in just a few clicks. With the 200-cell downpipe from Audio.Shop, the sound is now perfect - never obnoxious or bad in any way. It's like having an entirely new car under my feet.

Now, let's talk about performance testing. As you can see, I've done some extensive testing to get a baseline reading for this car. And the results are interesting, especially when compared to the Alpina B3 Touring. But what really caught my attention was the lack of low-end boost from the mild hybrid system. It's almost as if it's not doing its job properly.

So, I decided to push the car harder and see what would happen. With a kick-down test, I was able to tap into more power than I expected. The car responded eagerly, and I could feel the engine pulling hard through the gears. But even with this increased boost, the car still didn't quite reach the performance of its 470-500 horsepower twin - the Alpina B3 Touring.

Despite this, I have to say that I'm thoroughly enjoying driving this car. It's a joy to be behind the wheel of an inline-six engine, especially one as smooth and refined as the m340i xDrive Sport Plus. The performance is excellent, but it's not all about the numbers - for me, it's about the Driving Experience.

And that's where I think the m340i xDrive Sport Plus excels. It's a car that's perfect for the family, relatively affordable and comfortable. I even prefer it over the M3 Touring (which is, of course, an absolute dream car). So why not give this beauty a try?

I spent some time with Sven, who kindly lent me his m340i xDrive Sport Plus. He told me that he was excited to get his hands on the 200-cell downpipe for his own car - and now I'm excited too! That's how we do it at Audio.Shop: finding perfect solutions for our BMWs. If you're interested in upgrading your own m340i xDrive Sport Plus, or if you have a different model that needs some TLC, get in touch with us at [audio.shop@gmail.com](mailto:audio.shop@gmail.com).

That's all for now - thanks to Sven for the loan of his car and for sharing his passion for BMWs. And thank you to our viewers for watching - don't forget to subscribe and check out our other POV reviews.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this POV review by odito Canal my name is Martin and today I am taking a look at another BMW m34gi touring we cannot have enough of this the m34 ti it's just maybe especially in a touring version the best car you can get for your money nowadays I mean it's just a 3 Series but it has the best engine ever made probably in my opinion yeah I'm a bit biased I have to say a bit of a BMW Fanboy but there is a lot to be Fanboy about because wow especially in this BMW individual dravid gray this three 4gi touring is such a special appearance I think this is 2022 model so just before the facelift but I have a 2019 model so three years older and it's a bit different here and there so they did subtle changes without calling it a facelift or an LCI or whatever and there's another Edition a monhart tuning box on this car so this all looks the same to me yes it does and they got rid of the cerium gray accents because with my car yeah the badge still is serium gray but the exhaust tips are black we don't have cerium gray mirror caps anymore and we have a black kidney Grill but I guess these are amp performance optional extras we are on a winter set but quite a decent winter set I have the same set and this is why you get the touring version there's just a lot of space for your kids your dogs and their crap and your bolts oh BMW build quality okay and another great addition look quite a classic feature of the touring versions of BMW is this I use this a lot if you're packed with groceries and you just have to get one thing and you don't want to have everything falling out where you open it you use this it's such a handy feature foreign so let's go check it out under the Bonnet because we have that beautiful b-58 engine but it's accompanied by a monhart MH chronic performance box so this box is connected to a few sensors it gives it certain values and the car is thinking okay I must do a bit more boost that's why you get a bit more power uh another difference with my car is the fact that this is a mild hybrid and that's why we have that purple cable running that also means man I've driven this car a lot in various shapes and forms that we have a top speed of 243 GPS go fix that BMW that's stupid maybe they did with the LCI model but we haven't tested that yet so let's hope they fix that because the top speed of my car GPS is 257. so that's quite a big difference so BMW individual pane stock we have 374 horsepower 500 newton meters and well we have two claims by monat on their website 470 and 500 horsepower I'm not sure which one this is let's call it 470 and see if it will live up to that number so as you might know I did a race chip tune quite a similar box to this with my car with 460 horsepower and it was equally fast as an Alpina B3 so quite impressive so this has to be even faster than that especially when we use that 500 horsepower number so let's just go and check it out we've done this a lot so I'm not going to bother with any of the Little Things um one one little thing I want to talk about with my car there is an m340i badge right here but they ditched that feature oh that is so funny when did they do that there has to be a person at BMW that said you know guys if we ditch the m340i badge here and just put in a generic M badge it'll save us five euros per car let's do that good idea Gunter it's stuff like that that just shows that just seems so stupid to me okay we have the extended leather pack which which I'm really jealous of really beautiful on top of the dash uh this is just plastic with my car and we have the black wooden trim quite original for an M3 4gi let's go and start it up put it into gear let's go for sport mode and let's go for the mode that I don't like which is Sport Plus mode because with my car it's just stupid it's too harsh the steering is comically heavy it's just ridiculous it's like you have two flat front tires but I was amazed by the fact that this is totally different in Sport Plus that's really funny it's a lot better actually so they really develop and improved on the m340i without telling anyone basically so good job BMW I really like that so stuck this thing will do 4.6 seconds to a hundred with launch control which I will now be demonstrating why is this still here shouldn't be here let's close that up so that with that my heart tuning box is a 4.1 to 100. so that is a good result I do think the sound is still a bit absent we did find a fix for that if you go to audio.shop you'll find the 200 cell downpipe uh that I currently have on my m340i it's just a plug and play solution so you just swap out the downpipes without doing any software or coding and you just have an awesome sound that's never obnoxious or bad in any way so it it's the perfect mold for an m340i without the hassle of you know doing mulch with your car it's it's only upsides so go check out the difference with my car in the top right corner now back to this uh we do have a little more low down boost because this is the mild hybrid setup so uh you can see that part of the dials getting blue at some times and that means that mold hybrid system is just giving that little extra push and now let's check out only Autobahn what this will do 100 to 200 compared to mine which was a 9.6 as I said the exact same number as an Alpena B3 touring so this being 470 500 horsepower should be that thank you so I did all the testing when I got in the car heated up the oil and then I dip my test because with these b-58 engines the problem is that the intake um will overheat and it will not cool down so your first run is always the fastest okay let's slow down a bit and do a kick down right here there we go a lot of boost really really quite a bit more chorky than the mild hybrid system you can definitely notice that's 200 100 to 200 and just over 10 seconds uh right so that is a bit disappointing I have to say I don't think the performance is really there so Sven maybe put this on a dino uh and see what the actual horsepower number is there's the speed limiter 253 on the speedo so that's 243 GPS again go fix that BMW what a lovely engine and what a lovely car this is I absolutely love this this for me is what BMW is all about having inline six cars that are just perfect for the family relatively affordable relatively um I like this better than an M3 even though I'm absolutely in love with the M3 touring this for me is what BMW is about okay let's go go let's go do a pork tool pork a pork too that's called a barbecue let's do a torque pull throttle yeah ebu's right there I can definitely feel that kicking in probably that's that's just a single gear pull wow yeah I really really like this you know the performance is a bit lacking because you have that number 470 500 horsepower but yeah if you're not focusing on the numbers the Driving Experience is just perfect I love this so Sven actually was really excited getting that uh 200 cell down pipe on this car because that really would add that bit of extra Driving Experience sound wise um and that's exactly the reason why we sell it we are looking for Perfect Solutions for the cars we own ourselves and if we have found one we put it on the outside shop and that's how people will know that uh it's a perfect solution and a perfect mold and you can do that so I tested out several down pipes and exhaust setups and that was just the best you can get the downpipes at kaisberg in Utrecht near attack and have them installed over there if you're interested in one for your m340i m44gi or if you have a different like 4gi or BMW model and you're interested in one of these downpipes go contact me out of the panel at gmail .com and we'll find the perfect solution for your BMW I'm really interested in doing that nowadays these cars just need a bit of help getting some sound from them and uh yeah without it getting worse the Driving Experience you know the comfort and stuff like that okay so thank you Sven thank you so much for Lending me your beautiful m34 gr touring the best car in the world thank you guys for watching go subscribe to our Channel by clicking right here go check out this video or the playlist of POV reviews thank you guys byewhat's up ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this POV review by odito Canal my name is Martin and today I am taking a look at another BMW m34gi touring we cannot have enough of this the m34 ti it's just maybe especially in a touring version the best car you can get for your money nowadays I mean it's just a 3 Series but it has the best engine ever made probably in my opinion yeah I'm a bit biased I have to say a bit of a BMW Fanboy but there is a lot to be Fanboy about because wow especially in this BMW individual dravid gray this three 4gi touring is such a special appearance I think this is 2022 model so just before the facelift but I have a 2019 model so three years older and it's a bit different here and there so they did subtle changes without calling it a facelift or an LCI or whatever and there's another Edition a monhart tuning box on this car so this all looks the same to me yes it does and they got rid of the cerium gray accents because with my car yeah the badge still is serium gray but the exhaust tips are black we don't have cerium gray mirror caps anymore and we have a black kidney Grill but I guess these are amp performance optional extras we are on a winter set but quite a decent winter set I have the same set and this is why you get the touring version there's just a lot of space for your kids your dogs and their crap and your bolts oh BMW build quality okay and another great addition look quite a classic feature of the touring versions of BMW is this I use this a lot if you're packed with groceries and you just have to get one thing and you don't want to have everything falling out where you open it you use this it's such a handy feature foreign so let's go check it out under the Bonnet because we have that beautiful b-58 engine but it's accompanied by a monhart MH chronic performance box so this box is connected to a few sensors it gives it certain values and the car is thinking okay I must do a bit more boost that's why you get a bit more power uh another difference with my car is the fact that this is a mild hybrid and that's why we have that purple cable running that also means man I've driven this car a lot in various shapes and forms that we have a top speed of 243 GPS go fix that BMW that's stupid maybe they did with the LCI model but we haven't tested that yet so let's hope they fix that because the top speed of my car GPS is 257. so that's quite a big difference so BMW individual pane stock we have 374 horsepower 500 newton meters and well we have two claims by monat on their website 470 and 500 horsepower I'm not sure which one this is let's call it 470 and see if it will live up to that number so as you might know I did a race chip tune quite a similar box to this with my car with 460 horsepower and it was equally fast as an Alpina B3 so quite impressive so this has to be even faster than that especially when we use that 500 horsepower number so let's just go and check it out we've done this a lot so I'm not going to bother with any of the Little Things um one one little thing I want to talk about with my car there is an m340i badge right here but they ditched that feature oh that is so funny when did they do that there has to be a person at BMW that said you know guys if we ditch the m340i badge here and just put in a generic M badge it'll save us five euros per car let's do that good idea Gunter it's stuff like that that just shows that just seems so stupid to me okay we have the extended leather pack which which I'm really jealous of really beautiful on top of the dash uh this is just plastic with my car and we have the black wooden trim quite original for an M3 4gi let's go and start it up put it into gear let's go for sport mode and let's go for the mode that I don't like which is Sport Plus mode because with my car it's just stupid it's too harsh the steering is comically heavy it's just ridiculous it's like you have two flat front tires but I was amazed by the fact that this is totally different in Sport Plus that's really funny it's a lot better actually so they really develop and improved on the m340i without telling anyone basically so good job BMW I really like that so stuck this thing will do 4.6 seconds to a hundred with launch control which I will now be demonstrating why is this still here shouldn't be here let's close that up so that with that my heart tuning box is a 4.1 to 100. so that is a good result I do think the sound is still a bit absent we did find a fix for that if you go to audio.shop you'll find the 200 cell downpipe uh that I currently have on my m340i it's just a plug and play solution so you just swap out the downpipes without doing any software or coding and you just have an awesome sound that's never obnoxious or bad in any way so it it's the perfect mold for an m340i without the hassle of you know doing mulch with your car it's it's only upsides so go check out the difference with my car in the top right corner now back to this uh we do have a little more low down boost because this is the mild hybrid setup so uh you can see that part of the dials getting blue at some times and that means that mold hybrid system is just giving that little extra push and now let's check out only Autobahn what this will do 100 to 200 compared to mine which was a 9.6 as I said the exact same number as an Alpena B3 touring so this being 470 500 horsepower should be that thank you so I did all the testing when I got in the car heated up the oil and then I dip my test because with these b-58 engines the problem is that the intake um will overheat and it will not cool down so your first run is always the fastest okay let's slow down a bit and do a kick down right here there we go a lot of boost really really quite a bit more chorky than the mild hybrid system you can definitely notice that's 200 100 to 200 and just over 10 seconds uh right so that is a bit disappointing I have to say I don't think the performance is really there so Sven maybe put this on a dino uh and see what the actual horsepower number is there's the speed limiter 253 on the speedo so that's 243 GPS again go fix that BMW what a lovely engine and what a lovely car this is I absolutely love this this for me is what BMW is all about having inline six cars that are just perfect for the family relatively affordable relatively um I like this better than an M3 even though I'm absolutely in love with the M3 touring this for me is what BMW is about okay let's go go let's go do a pork tool pork a pork too that's called a barbecue let's do a torque pull throttle yeah ebu's right there I can definitely feel that kicking in probably that's that's just a single gear pull wow yeah I really really like this you know the performance is a bit lacking because you have that number 470 500 horsepower but yeah if you're not focusing on the numbers the Driving Experience is just perfect I love this so Sven actually was really excited getting that uh 200 cell down pipe on this car because that really would add that bit of extra Driving Experience sound wise um and that's exactly the reason why we sell it we are looking for Perfect Solutions for the cars we own ourselves and if we have found one we put it on the outside shop and that's how people will know that uh it's a perfect solution and a perfect mold and you can do that so I tested out several down pipes and exhaust setups and that was just the best you can get the downpipes at kaisberg in Utrecht near attack and have them installed over there if you're interested in one for your m340i m44gi or if you have a different like 4gi or BMW model and you're interested in one of these downpipes go contact me out of the panel at gmail .com and we'll find the perfect solution for your BMW I'm really interested in doing that nowadays these cars just need a bit of help getting some sound from them and uh yeah without it getting worse the Driving Experience you know the comfort and stuff like that okay so thank you Sven thank you so much for Lending me your beautiful m34 gr touring the best car in the world thank you guys for watching go subscribe to our Channel by clicking right here go check out this video or the playlist of POV reviews thank you guys bye\n"