The M2 definitely feels lighter and more nimble than the M4. I was comfortable the whole way as I picked my way from one great twisty road to the next. I had the same seats last summer when I drove an M4 from LA to Monterey for the big car week festivities. Mine had the M Carbon bucket seats that look like they’d be painful but weren’t. To try all this out in the real world, or at least in Arizona, I got a light blue automatic and took off. 2023 BMW XM Electrified SUV Is Refined Performance.The steering carries over from the previous M2 and feels set up just a little more for comfort, perhaps at the expense of liveliness. There are no carbon-ceramic brakes offered, but you might not need them unless you’re going to the track on this, which many owners probably will. The brakes are particularly interesting because they are electrically actuated, which might be-and feel-faster-acting. It may be an oversimplification to say the M2 is basically a shrunken-down M3/M4, but that’s where it got its (slightly detuned) inline six-cylinder engine, suspension links with large castor and kingpin angles and lowered roll center, and M Compound brakes with six-piston fixed-caliper 15-inch discs at the front and floating-caliper 14.6-inch discs at the rear. That power and torque go to the rear wheels only, through BMW’s standard electronically controlled Active M Differential, shared with the M4, which can lock up to 100% when an inside wheel is slipping. I had the automatic and found it a joy to paddle-shift up and down the gears on some of northern Arizona’s best twisty roads. Yes, that engine is mated to your choice of the standard six-speed manual or optional eight-speed M Steptronic automatic. On long straights the M2 didn’t bounce around or wander-it stayed true as your last promise. Had designers and engineers simply flattened the whole thing out, maybe no one would be upset. Unfortunately, underneath the kidney beans, the design gets a little confused, with a folded-origami assemblage of inlets, creases, grilles, and bracing. Like its predecessor, the second-gen M2 you see here has subdued twin kidneys. It’s not as bad as the M4, which wears a pair of air-slurping snout nostrils that could scare a tapir. Sticker price starts at $63,195.īut first, people seem to love bashing BMW grille designs, so let’s have a look at this one. With straight-six power and torque, a stiffened body, and an active differential for this rear-drive-only coupe, your only problem will be getting someone to pry it from your hot, sweaty hands when your track time is over. You have to get past the confused front end to find that the rest of the second-generation 2023 BMW M2 is pretty much fantastic. Pricing starts at $63,195 and goes up to the low-to-mid-$70s, about on par with the Audi RS3 and Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing.Power comes from the M4’s 3.0-liter straight six, which makes 453 hp and 406 lb-ft of torque, more than enough to push the 3867-pound M2 around by the rear wheels.The new BMW M2 is at dealers and ready for flailing.
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