Bigger, heavier and way more expensive than before - is the new M2 still true to its brief?
► …but does that make it better than before?
Is this a case of mission creep? Or has BMW managed to ensure that its smallest M car is still one of its most fun?For a start, the new M2 looks like Lego Technic made a model of the previous one, but I’m warming to the bold design – even if the rear is very angle sensitive. Beyond that it feels really mature, which probably isn’t on your M2 bingo card if you’ve driven the at times thuggish previous model.
There’s the same hand-me-down logic for this M2 as the previous model, including a damper tune lifted from the M3 Touring, but this time the parts-bin commonality extends to the same rubber, same compound as the M3/M4 Competition, with 275-section 19s on the front and 285-section 20s for the rear . The Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tyres we’re driving on are standard, though sticky Cup 2s are also available.
The last M2 felt quite raw, with a choppier ride on fixed dampers and a decent fizz of road noise, but this replacement is full of doughy compliance on adaptive dampers in Comfort mode, snuffs out extraneous noise and elevates the underplayed if gorgeously smooth straight-six tone higher in the mix.
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