We’ll have to wait to get our hands on a final production version and wring it out properly on a closed circuit, but the latest challenger to the BMW M3/4’s stranglehold as the king of compact supercars — this here new 2016 ATS-V Coupe and Sedan — just may usurp the German legends. The new high-performance ATS-V certainly comes well prepared. How does a 455 horsepower and 445 pound-feet of torque twin-turbocharged 3.6-litre six-cylinder gas engine sound? Which, according to its makers, allows the ATS-V to scoot from rest to 96 km/h in just in 3.9 seconds and top out at 298 (hey, let’s call it 300!) km/h. Sounds sweet to us.