2021 BMW M2 CS Review // The Last Great BMW M Car

oh god oh it's happened oh it's leaking it's leaking oh oh i don't know what that is that's why we don't do bmws thomas you're looking at the throttle house i'm thomas and i'm james and this is maybe the

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car m, it's a statement Pretty bold and we hope it's proven false over time, but the fact is that the m2cs is the purest distillation of what it means to build a car with manual rear wheel drive and six tons of inline junk. Power in an angry little package and among its improvements over the regular M2 Competition, the CS comes with lap time-focused Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, a bold performance choice from BMW, but one that goes a long way. to define the character of this car and the tires.

With the other changes we'll discuss in a minute, they make this particular m car what it is and also contribute to its 25,000 premium over the m2 competition, so a big thank you to bmw markham for allowing us to present this amazingly speckled example that we make. Check out track tests and lots of gameplay, so subscribe and ring the bell. I don't want to say that I'm only happy when I'm in an m car, so I won't. I think Thomas is only happy in a m. car, but you know what I think he has reasons to be in this one because the m2 is already amazing and this one is the best one yet and it's also the most powerful because it's no longer a detuned m4 engine, it's 444 horsepower. m4 engine and unlike the e46 that Thomas owns, this one is turbocharged and drives very turbocharged at low revs, there's no power floor, and then it comes in, it makes you feel like you're the best midwife you've ever designed. this push, you put your foot on the ground and push, I just ruined them, I wish it sounded better, yeah, it's angry, it doesn't really sing, it sounds good, I think it revs high five thousand six thousand seven thousand, I like that frisky engine as an aside although the cs still suffers from some of the foyballing we noticed in the m2 competition the clutch is a little too light a little too springy the shifting is good a little notchy in places going into second gear you hit a few things but it feels connected They are smooth, they have a purpose, just like the direction.

In fact, in sport and in the city it is a little heavy, but you lower it for comfort and it is wonderful, and that extra power is very welcome because it reaches 60 miles per hour even faster this time. than the m2 comp, but it's not just about the extra power. BMW also implemented a ton of carbon fiber, including the hood and roof, to reduce weight and center of gravity, but it also added the M4 Competition's cooling package, giving it that extra edge. radiator and oil cooler and they also added adaptive suspension, so now you have an M2CS that weighs about the same as a competition M2.

Anyway, people have always complained that the m2 is too heavy. I have driven all versions of this car, yes. The number is high but what matters is the way it feels and this car feels so fun it doesn't feel heavy it feels light it dances very few cars have character these days this one has plenty of that , but the question is: cs different, is it fast because only a few things have changed, for example the damping, we have adaptive shock absorbers. This is what I have noticed. I think it's a little bit better cushioned than the m2 competition because I think it's now incredibly.

Supple even in sport plus mode, but it's very controlled over bumps and the mid-corner is a little tighter than I remember from the competition. Does comfort mode now mean it's a Rolls Royce? No, not even close, don't forget this is it. it's still a sports car, the road noise is quite loud and it's a bit harsh in the city, the m2 is always very slow in corners, really nervous because of the short wheelbase and the way it would bounce around in this It's not at all. It's a dangerous feeling that I'm not sure is a good thing, no that's a good thing because it's still a lot of fun, it just feels a little more controlled to me and I'm sure that's partly due to the two drinks too. that are at stake. the cs the cup ii is a very aggressive tire, really very sticky, it seems like they have given it a really aggressive feel in the center, they go very straight but then they also take curves on the road, so the steering speaks a lot more than it normally would.

I remember. and it is also very solid. It took BMW many years to discover this electronic power steering system. They've absolutely nailed it on this car and now the next generation hasn't gotten to that point yet. It's frustrating. Oh, these cars are so good. It's a lot of fun to drive and looks amazing. Now this is knocking on the door of the Cayman GT4 in that the most special one or the two most special series has arrived and I have to say that the Cayman is sportier than this one, but this is more. like Thomas said, playful, the alligator feels like an extension of yourself, it feels like it came to play with you, so the alligator is

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if you want to play with yourself, this is great if you want company, I bet you are glad I didn't.

I don't have the bait to see these things. Can we talk about this? It is so beautiful. I had this in my garage and

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night in the middle of the night I got up just to go look at it. What should I do? What should? be the case with cars like this, I don't want to say this is the peak of BMW, but it might actually be the peak of BMW, currently, as far as we know, it's not just a downhill slope from here, it's like an abyss that widens. collapses anyway, so what's important? What I know is that this is what an m car should look like, yeah, and we, what was the last BMW we were in with an m, it was the four series, right, so you say mom can have an m car, She says no, we. having m cars at home, that's the m car at home, yes, there's a lot to talk about this, we could literally just sit here and drool over this all day, as you may have seen, but just this design here in this section.

It's fantastic, the grill is perfectly proportioned and designed for the shape of the front end and now we have this thing that is functional, it is functional, it will actually not only work with the cooling but it will also reduce the lift of the front end, because it reduces the pressure this is a good looking car from every angle look at the fabric of the car the wheel changes yeah so you have the chest board up here yeah you have the difference the smallest fabric here and then even through from here, you can Look, you can see the carbon fiber, yes, so the m2 cs has these famous gold tinted wheels, yes, but this one is special because it has the optional carbon ceramic brake package that gives you the gold calipers that You would think they would be golden. in Gold Clash, but it works, it's not bloody at all, no, it just works perfectly, no, they made an awesome car, this one is masano blue, but one of my

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s actually and I don't usually criticize blue because it's awesome, it's perfect.

The blue for this car is not exclusive to this car as the only way to get Massano blue on a 2 Series right now is to get the m2 cs ego. It's special, yes, but you can get Messian blue on a z4 m40i, so it's kind of like that. Yes, but I think it looks better in this than in any other application, there is more fabric roof. No, no, you said from all angles. It's just the truest statement, isn't it? I can't find a place to look at this car. I don't physically enjoy looking at the size is brilliant, it's perfect and you'd think that would cause a compromise inside, but it does, it's really not right.

You see the reason I say it's not committed, yes, and normally we don't. Let's start talking about the rear seats, but they are perfectly comfortable, not only are they comfortable, they are spacious, yes, in some ways, yes, we drove a g70 this week and they are less spacious than the interior. It makes sense, but I don't understand how they managed to package the exterior of the car to make it look so nice, sleek, and chicken-coop-like, but it still has some of the most useful coupe boxes I've ever seen. BMW Magic, this is magic, yes. It's black magic, that's what bmw means black magic, there you go, I landed and I can't wait to go to the front, we have M sport seats, now we have this beautiful M stripe that looks great, these are these seats. incredibly reinforced very bulky really very bold yes, when I sat in the car for the first time, yes, it was in its most reinforced position because they are adjustable and basically there was a kind of seat taken, it doesn't want you there, it was like that, yes, but They are very effective, the interior is a problem at this price because no it is, it's because you're not thinking about the price, you're just thinking about how much you like the interior, type 100,000 interior anywhere else on Google. you wouldn't get a picture of this you wouldn't get a picture of this no, but these are the things I like okay, first of all, it's incredibly simple, yeah, right, this car is a sports car first, oh, I like these three seconds.

I like it and I like the touches they've done with the cs here, yeah the new marker is kind of subtle but really nice, the steering wheel is a little chunky, I think what they've really done here and I feel like this could be a Un bit cheap, they just took the normal steering wheel and then wrapped it in Alcantara instead of replacing it. I swear it's thicker, but if you look at something like an alligator, yes, it has the smaller diameter and the thinner wheel, which makes the car thicker. I feel more playful even superficially I don't know, I like the thick BMW steering wheels that I always have, but yes, no, it's not, it's not 100 thousand dollars here, the m2 competition for 30 thousand dollars less has the same intuition, there is a lot extra.

Carbon fiber, although this whole center console piece is carbon fiber, but they've sacrificed some things to make it as raw and as sports car as possible, they removed the armrest here, so when you drive like this there's nothing here, right, which is a bit annoying to live with, that's part of it, that's far from me, it's great, okay, fantastic, sir, fantastic elastic arms, yes, but there's also no pocket to put the phone in, so the cable comes out here and it's open in the cabin these are small complaints it's a smart complaint but yes but it's wireless carplay so you can do it and there's no wireless charging so you can have it in your pocket and have a clean cabin, yes, or have a cable dangling, which is what you do.

Because Apple Carplay is so unreliable, it's still fine with me, but yes, I'd rather have wired Carplay every day of the week. Yes, the instrument cluster is wonderful and simple. Well, they look kind of digital, but they're not correct, like you're spinning. If you turn it off they disappear completely, they are just illuminated and clear but very easy to read. I wouldn't mind adding a digital speed reader, yes, because this increases speed. quick, you just say, yeah, I'm illegal, I was, oh, what's legal? Yeah, I like it too, you know, here on the meter it's 150 kilometers per hour, that's right, it's not like it's very well spaced for city driving.

It wants you to push it, but they haven't sacrificed much comfort if you think about the difference, the jump from the cayman to the cayman gt4 where you lose the door handles and your seats don't have any adjustment, that's right, yes, this still. it has a harman kardon sound system it still has yes a lot of things because there is still a csl well no there isn't there could be a csl you just know I'm actually a little disappointed with the interior even the pedals are They are aluminum it's a shame they should be like special m pedals yes but it feels a bit lackluster but I don't care how well it drives and how good it looks on the outside.

No, I like the interior. I've always liked the two series here, I find them spacious, but overall you're right, maybe for the price, like it's a significant blow, it's a blow, we lost an armrest and we don't have aluminum pedals, so yeah, Okay, there's the downside. but I want to say that other than that, this is a really brilliant car, so brilliant that at the end of the day James and I literally had an argument about whether we should buy it or not, and although we finally talked ourselves out of it, the fact that We would consider it It only tells you what you need to know about m2cs.

It is the most special BMW and I dare say it. it really means driving you