2019 BMW M2 Competition Review - The Best BMW M Car

Jaegun berates all the

competition

Bird Drive

2019

BMW m2, this is the

best

M car, right, yes it is, we drove the m3 CS, but I would choose this one over that one. I'll say it right up front, the torque horsepower, so let's get into it. 405 horsepower 406 pound-feet of torque huge numbers for a small car like this and quickly the difference between the m2 and the

competition

's m2 you can't get the m2 anymore, the competition's m2 replaced it and they gave it the engine m3 and m4. so they stuck a bigger, more horsepower engine into a smaller car, slightly different body stuff, more on that later, but first, a cliche corner, shipping suitable for an m2 competition and i'm going to put a shift dynamic M descending and go full throttle with complete confidence.

I love this car so much that it turns sideways when you want and is so controllable. The moment I got really excited about the m2 competition was when Timo Glock was driving in front of us in Portugal, we were the pre-productions of the m3 4 TI, yes. he was completely breaking it sideways. I said I'm skidding. I'm fine, so I guess this is the coolest car in the world and we can actually do the same thing on this. We haven't turned off traction completely. Full disclosure. I converted it to the second mode, which is just clicking a button, which is the

best

mode for this car on public roads.

This is easily one of my favorite cars of the year because of the confidence it gives me. I know exactly what it will do when I put my foot down and hit the floor and then roll it with the steering wheel, it's perfect, the driving dynamics are the best I've ever gotten and it was like I've had this car for six years, exactly this reminds me of my ISF. I had a lot of confidence in my Lexus. I knew exactly what he would do, but this is better. They just got the car right. Yes, many cars will say the weight distribution is perfectly balanced 50/50.

This is the most perfectly balanced car I ever remember driving almost ever we almost went back to that engine although zero turbo lag absolutely zero turbo lag so we went from a single turbo to a twin turbo. I guess we did. This is for BMW nerds. The first was an N 55 inch. 55 inches, it's still a 3 liter inline, it's completely different from the previous LP. This thing pushes you all the way back to the red line in your seat. It's the best feeling you'll ever find. Can you find the red light or is it practically buried? there, yeah, so the meters are a little hard to see where the red line is, maybe at night it's okay, but during the day, yeah, come on, maybe add some bureaucracy or something.

It's red but not red enough. I totally agree with you and let's go. address the elephant in the room to make it automatic yeah go avoid that for a moment okay let's play that tribute we did on m240. I'm fine and we're back, so we have a seven-speed transmission. Dual clutch and the transmission is amazing, it's absolutely amazing, it ships so fast, the paddles are amazing, you can shift here, down, up, up, down, but it's not manual and the manual is similar to the m240 I in the sense of that you can Don't turn off the rev matching unless the tractions are off yeah so that's it even if you had the manual it needs to be fully in danger mode to match what I would fully trust in this car.

I would completely trust him with everything turned off, so let's go. Go back to this shifter here, okay, how do you put it in Drive? You push it to the right and then the sport modes also to the right, right, how do you put it in park? You turn the car off in Drive, which is about as backwards as it gets, but you get used to it because if you turn it off and put it in neutral, it starts screaming at you, so what should you do if you want to keep the car running while you get out?

Put it in neutral and lift the manual parking brake exactly. Glad to hear it. It has it, but with this optional dual clutch transmission this will do 0-100km/h in 4.2 seconds, it's pretty quick for a rear wheel drive car and we have launch control, yes we appreciate this car that I really don't like. it bothers so much because the fact that they updated the m2 with the competition m2 normally they just like to add some vents add some gloss black add some sound or something no they put a whole new engine in here. I respect him very much. about that now let's talk about a little bit of handling a little more handles surprisingly i know exactly what this is going to do like i said, perfectly balanced with the suspension, honestly, it's pretty stiff, but it's called a competition, i wouldn't expect less well, would you? why not?

Don't we just press the sleep button or change the way for you? So because we have a white switch for that, which I don't care because the white switches are on because everyone is making gloss black switches now, what are the switches? Okay, so our driving modes are controlled independently, which is my favorite, so I have a way to control my motor. I can go to the efficient Sport Sport+, always more positive for me and then we have our direction, so we have Comfort Sport and Sport Plus again. I prefer sports in this. I like heavy steering so I'll go to Sport Plus.

BMW fans will love the Sport Plus on this and we can also adjust exactly how fast it shifts with this button just below the gear lever, but again, it will only shift as quickly as possible. when we're here at the top of the red line and then we also have a traction control button and that traction can be adjusted with our M 1 and M 2 buttons. These are also new for the M 2 competition. The way we It works is to configure the car. any way you want and in your settings you can program it for M 1 or M 2, so if you turn off the traction control, say for M 2, when you click on it you will need to click again to confirm because the manufacturers of cars can afford it.

You accidentally turn off the traction control exactly, so even in M ​​dynamic mode, which is pressing a single button, it still makes you confirm it because you still have a traction light off even though it's not completely off and these buttons are my favorite buttons, they looked better. the m5 but the fact that we have an adjustable M 1 and M 2. I love that it was the m5 or the M 3 CS, the one with the red buttons that you pressed. I think it was the m5 that was cooler, yes, yes, the steering wheel. a little less wide than the

2019

3 Series we drove recently and I think this is the sweet spot for BMW's steering wheels.

For me people who love thick steering wheels, this one is not as thick as the m3 CS or the new 3 Series. and before I let you drive, today's sponsor, Mitchell and Wale Insurance Brokers, who are fans of the show you were watching , they called us to see if they could get us cheaper insurance and indeed they did it with more coverage, yes, and just for fun, we wanted to see how much the insurance would cost us in this m2 competition and we compared it with an eye m240 which is slower , so this cost URI $2100 Canadian and this cost me $1700 Canadian, which is only a hundred and twenty dollars more on both sides than the m240 eye, so there's really no reason to get an m240 eye if we care about the insurance, yes, you would be stupid if you didn't buy it just because and the price difference is because I live in the city and he lives an hour outside the city, so they do regular insurance and offer vehicle insurance with right hand drive.

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It's a locking differential, but it knows exactly how much torque to give each wheel because it takes information from the steering wheel, the accelerator, and everything behind the wheel. You didn't have the digital speedometer on, no, because I don't care, so you just click on the on-board computer until the speedometer appears. Oh, what is the on-board computer? the BC button that cycles through the gauge info stuff, yes it's a strange button so we have the usual old BMW infotainment satellite radio stations a bit complicated, not the new one we have on the new 3 Series we drive in.

Portugal I think I like this one better, especially for faster cars. Oh, I definitely prefer this one. Simple Apple CarPlay widgets like the new one, but we have wireless charging in the center console and it's actually pretty good and it's good because. It locks your phone and therefore when you drive recklessly and fast you don't exactly get anywhere, not that anyone drives this way recklessly. We've been asking in the comments why I don't like wireless Apple Carplay. I'll show you right now, so let's say I'm waiting for a friend and a bus stop, so I'll watch some wild geese while I wait, listen to this delay, welcome to a quick

review

of the Lexus LS 500.

I'm going to drive both hybrids, so it should be pretty easy to fix. I'll swipe up and just unplug my wireless carplay. The problem was successfully resolved. Not the driving experience, it reconnects now. What I need to do is double click, maybe go to my settings and type in Car Play. I can never find it. Go to my BMW. Forget it from time to time. I can go back and see wild geese. Oh, it's a good time to get back to my car, so let's get back to the car game and bring this back. That's a total pain.

What I like most about the interior is this carbon fiber pattern like the i8, yes that is different from the m3 cska which had suede so I guess we can do some tests like the visor test, ok these don't pass , I doubt it. three two one fail the ultimate feel the small cup will fit uh look at this dome lid and I can lift it up so technically that's a pass now I think how it spilled already and we have our USB port right there which is a The engineer He told us that the new Series 3 was waterproof, so we can assume that this one is waterproof.

I still don't like its location. Trust it. Yes, now that I'm behind the wheel, the steering wheel feels a little thinner. I think yes it is or what I like is the seats yes the seats are very comfortable yes and they light up like the m3 yes you can only see it at night and then we also have adjustable bolsters on both sides because it is absolutely necessary. this car and we have seat belts, yes we do and we also have M stitching on the steering wheel with the M badge and a sunroof. I love summers, a lot of people don't care.

I love the sunroof. I would delete it. from this car every time I drive with it this guy closes the sunroof on his personal car I always open it yes I always close it I don't want sunroof and I go back to that traction control I think BMW is maybe officially the leader in amazing The control traction disagrees. You think Porsche is still better. Yes, but we drove an m3 40i on the track with traction control and it allowed us to go full speed. We haven't gone crazy with a Porsche yet. That's true, but I know you can. but I had to take the traction off completely on the Porsche for camp four, oh yeah, having it on a bit didn't drive with me at all, yeah, but not that much, what about Mercedes, yeah, why that one, yeah, traction ? controls BMW, so let's get to the appearance, what has changed since the m2?

The mirrors, now we have the m3 CSL mirrors. I love these mirrors, however, since it's winter, I discovered a minor issue with that when you're cleaning. snow, it's hard to get to the little corner area of ​​the Kravis, yes, and how about the front? The front end has been enlarged slightly and basically everywhere, so the grille is larger and the openings at the bottom are larger. The biggest thing that tells me it's a competition are those three small cutouts at the bottom of the front bumper. I agree, it's very easy to tell with those three little indentations, yes, besides that look, it's really difficult for me because they are always in different colors, but the headlights too.

They also look different, they just look better, more aggressive. I really like these headlights, they are not as aggressive as those on the new 3 Series, but they are still very good. And what is the color of this car? Hockenheim Grey. Silver Hockenheim. Let's go with the silver Hockenheim. Slightly different flat gray. Yes. I like it much more than all the other grades this year. I like it. I wouldn't say I like it more than the m3 CS. Oh, I definitely like this one better. Can I get two? What bothers me. the appearance of theno taillights, the muffler oh, the muffler is part of the body of this car, it's absolutely huge.

Honestly, I think it looks funny because it sticks out so much, it looks funny, but it doesn't bother me, because what do we say? about old school plymouth lasers and stuff and eclipses, that cool hood bump for a feature that's awesome yeah but the m2 didn't have that yet but this is the m2's competition. I'm sure the BMW engineers had to phrase it that way for a certain reason and to do it quickly, I feel like it was cutting costs, maybe not, but either way, cost cutting is still a matter of doing it fast for a determined price.

I like it, I prefer the back of m2 and let's talk about it. that exhaust, what it looks like and how it sounds, yeah, why haven't you talked about the exhaust yet? Because I don't like it, you get distracted by a lot of other interesting things, well the car drives amazingly, let's talk about that exhaust, it's not my favorite sound. especially inside the car but when I get out and you rev ​​it it sounds because I don't want my ears to hurt while driving, it doesn't sound very good inside when you're in it and I think it sounds great outside too.

The M2 sounded better, but it wouldn't make me buy the M2 over the competing M2. This car is very good and the exhaust crackles and pops, but you can't really hear it in the cabin unless you drive pretty slow or have the back and rear towards the taillights. They are very simple. I feel like they did the car so well that they can tone down the look a little. Yeah the tailor is a super plane they do nothing for me and just like the m240 my favorite part about it's look is that crazy body line and huge rear fenders and my favorite part is how wide this thing is, It's so wide from every angle and since it's winter, we use winter wheels, we don't have the nice racing wheels.

I really like those racing wheels, the wheels fit this body pretty well, although oh yeah, these winters are absolutely fantastic, the 19s, yes they are and you can see the brakes through them. The brakes are huge, yes, and they work great, and the logos and everything look great, yes, and one more thing about the looks, we have those M2 fender vents that are fake. I like how the whole body line starts all the way to the rear. I agree. I wish they were functional, but they look pretty good. Everyone look at this body line one more time.

One thing I remember complaining about on the m240. I was the direction field when you were going straight. I remember it too. I have no problem in this field of steering the car when you are going exactly in a straight line. I don't know what the difference is. I don't know what they did. I don't know if it's in my head, but this feels like it. Better no, no, this is much better and doesn't feel as digital as the m5, so when you do this terrible thing it doesn't try to refocus you, it just takes you down the path you've already taken and you really haven't sent it yet ?

I wish you would send it to the cliche corner and talk about understeer. Understeer eh exactly, there is no understeer. Yes, there isn't. It's just a rear-wheel drive fun car and let me explain that traction to you. control system a little bit more because it's my favorite part of this little car, so when Yuri accelerated it, it engaged and if you don't fully engage it, the car knows you won't, so if you back off the accelerator a little bit. It will push you back, but if you go all the way in it will allow you to be on your side the entire time.

Yes, I'll let you hold it for a while. The car knows exactly when you're committed or when you're not, and it knows it. what to do and how to fix it, so I guess we've covered most of it. We both love this car very much. Let's get seventy-one thousand two hundred for that price. This has the option of coming out two seventy-eight thousand eight hundred ninety. five bucks it's an amazing price and as cars it's quiet there are so many cars for your dollar here this will be one of those legendary cars like the e46 m3 okay so let's compare this to the competition pretty much only the rs3 is the Closest competition to this one and we've driven it Yes, the RS3 felt like a slightly cooler Golf R.

This feels like a slightly less cool Corvette. I didn't think I would agree with you, this is perfect, this is as perfect a boat as a The 2018-2019 car now, let me ask you this, would you get this automatic or manual transmission? This would obviously be in a manual transmission, although automatic rev matching absolutely now I want to ask you another question if you have to have one. The car couldn't be sold at that price, no matter what it is, this or an i8 roadster, honestly I think I like the i8 a little more, but it's a very difficult decision and considering the price difference that It's crazy, honestly, I wouldn't even consider it.

I ate after driving this, this is a driver's car, if you appreciate driving and love driving and taking your own cliche corners, this is the best car I've probably driven all year for this price and even overall it's obviously like one of the best, yeah, old school style, this is going to be legendary if you have the means to buy this car, buy this car because I want to buy it from you used in 10 years when I can potentially pay for it with the warranty, yeah, like that it's how I would specify it, no sunroof, manual transmission, that's fine so on that note don't forget to subscribe hit the notification bell go to patreon.com/crashcourse yeah give them a call get a quote area one final seven Please, I'm Yuri, I'm Jacob, let's take a break in the car, don't forget my surprise, subscribe right now, subscribe, we didn't even do it.