‘No:' Woman Gets Behind the Wheel of a BMW. Then She Admits She Can’t Drive It Without Pushing This Button First

"Just say you can't do it."

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Nina Hernandez

By: Nina Hernandez

Jul 28, 2025 at 9:00pm ET

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A BMW driver says there’s a good reason she can’t drive her M4 without pressing the M Mode button first. For the uninitiated, here’s what that means.

TikTok user Harrley Quinn (@m2faced) reveals her dilemma in a video posted on July 8. In the video, Quinn is sitting in the driver’s seat of a BMW M4. The sound comes from “The Vat of Acid” episode of the cartoon Rick and Morty.

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Quinn lip syncs Rick Sanchez’s line, “There is nothing I cannot do.” Then, she flips the camera and shows the M4’s steering wheel. The text overlay reads, “Drive your car without M Mode.”

As Morty replies, “Just say you can’t do it,” Quinn flips the camera back around to selfie mode and lip syncs Sanchez’s response: “I won’t!”

In the comments, viewers weighed in on the merits of M Mode. Others commented on Quinn’s choice of audio.

“Now THAT is NOT OK,” wrote one concerned viewer.

A second person simply replied with a salute emoji.

“Gotta put the girl from Rush Hour,” wrote another. “‘Press the button!”

What Is BMW’s M Mode?

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As BMW Blog explains, BMW’s M3 and M4 models are so electronically customizable that drivers are able to finetune every aspect of the car’s behavior.

From the iDrive screen, drivers can adjust engine response, transmission shifts, suspension stiffness, steering feel, and even braking response. Separate center console buttons control the exhaust sound and traction control settings.

The intrigue truly starts with M Mode, which allows drivers to assign their favorite configurations to two steering wheel buttons labeled M1 and M2. With a simple tap, drivers can instantly switch between their personalized performance setups—like going from a Sunday cruise to an F1 lap—without fumbling through all those menu options.

If the car is equipped with M Drive Professional, it unlocks an additional set of M Modes:

Road, the default and keeps most driver assists active;
Sport reduces intervention from systems like lane keeping and collision warning; and
Track disables nearly all of those assistance systems and even turns off the iDrive screen to limit distractions. Of course, this is meant strictly for closed-course driving.

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So Quinn’s joke about not being able to drive without M Mode is probably tongue-in-cheek, but maybe a touch lowkey serious. Once you’ve dialed in the perfect setup for how you like your BMW to drive, going back to the default can feel just a bit boring. Put another way, when you’ve tasted beast mode, it’s hard to go back to Bambi.

In a direct message to Motor1, Quinn wrote, “M Mode is awesome. It turns the car into a whole different animal.”