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“Welcome to my office,” DTM race-car driver Andy Priaulx says with a smile as we strap ourselves into a 2014 BMW M4 prototype. It’s covered in camouflage, and the interior isn’t quite up to production snuff, but otherwise, this is the car that will arrive next June in the United States. The 2014 BMW M4 is the successor to the M3 coupe, one of the purest, most driver-oriented cars BMW has ever made. And on this hot, sunny afternoon it’s Priaulx’s job to fling the car—and us—around a former airfield in Germany to demonstrate the keen reflexes and taut handling ability of a car that BMW promises will come in around 3300 pounds.