Tested: 2021 BMW M440i Convertible Embraces the Soft-Top Life

After a 15-year hiatus, BMW brings back the soft top to its compact convertible.

Sometimes we think that BMW invented the 4-series just to complicate comparisons to the previous, much-revered incarnations of the two-door 3-series. Which would be silly, because the new 2021 M440i convertible doesn’t play the same role as the droptop 3-series of yore. Just as the 2021 M3 sedan now has the rough footprint of a 2001 E39 M5, the M440i is nearly the same size as a mid-2000s E64 6-series convertible.

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