BMW M2 Competition: Road Review | Carfection 4K

This is the new BMW m2

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as it only costs around three grand more than a standard m2 and considering the

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package they have added two m4 and m5 in the past and it really was a great deal. to obsess over, well yes for starters the m2 competition and it looks subtly but crucially a little different, the stars have these beautiful traditional mirrors with the two stringers of the one slightly broken right at the top, then we have the one more front full open with two slats on the kidney grille and of course with beautiful lightweight alloy wheels, the 788 m style, if you are wondering, we also have some black badges in nice black finishes on the quad exhausts.

Here we have a steering wheel all these lovely M seats on the steering wheel we have M 1 and M 2 buttons just to clarify they don't tell you between an M 2 and the mid-engined supercar of the 70s but what really makes this car be special are the mechanics and I'm going to divide it into two parts, the engine chassis or rather the handling, the suspension, the chassis handling, you know, under the hood, Ghana is the n55 engine, which dates back to the m135i and There is a suitable image in it. and the s55 of the current generation m4 and m3 has of course been detuned from that specification, but in this Beckett's Bank the temperature increased in terms of brake power and torque compared to the engine in the normal m2, which led the power to 404 brake horsepower and 460 lb-ft of torque, now we also have two turbo charges instead of just the engine, no more assists on the downhill and anger on the top.

Actually, in a better world, you could have a real resolution to use all the repetitions in the paper path? the bar maybe on the track you'll appreciate having a proper motor and quotes the rest of the time well I think the old 55 extreme was pretty good in its own right and I think it actually sounded a little better this sounds awesome same way you look up when a fighter jet passes by but you don't want to hear it again, like you do with the musical assassination of a Spitfire, the engine is good without being great, I certainly didn't dislike it and it is undeniably effective, but it didn't surprise me in the way What I expected, to feel a little off, like you're being held back, like the rear exhaust from a remap could uncork a whole load more of character and effervescence, and having driven an M3 CS, I know.

There's fizz there, maybe someone was afraid that the two could have made things quite uncomfortable for three and four if he had been left completely off the leash, he came and wasn't allowed to get past 911. Somehow, of course , you can get this with a manual gearbox. The 7-speed is very good, but it goes without saying that the 6-speed with an additional pedal would be my preferred option because that extra layer of interactivity also saves you money. Under the hood we have that beautiful carbon brace and we also have some reinforcements on the rear bulkhead, we also have new settings for the EM differential and the ESP as well as the cleaning and humidity rates have also changed and we have ROS gaskets on the rear suspension What is all that?

Well, just a more sophisticated feeling car, one that doesn't feel like it's going to bounce off the

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like the original end tubers that were awarded when they updated the m2, the last one I drove was better, but this is another step forward, ya that As soon as you get in this car, you can feel the way that, even at low speed, it rolls on the rear suspension much more smoothly, it adapts to the course much better and then when you go out on a

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like this, you endure big bumps. where before it felt like it wanted to just run you off the road, now you can really attack the road, a road like this where the smaller m2 should feel at home compared to the m4, now it really does, you can really enjoy it, the important thing is that this is also on passive dampers rather than adaptive and I think that makes a real difference because every time you are in the car, whatever situation you are in, you will know the car and you will feel exactly how it will handle any situation.

It's a kind of situation where you understand the car intrinsically much better, right at the limit, with this car you feel like it's more progressive again, it's in the rear suspension, but with the changes to the M differential it's more progressive so you can enjoy it. The rear-wheel drive balance is even greater. In the end, in the competition the m2 feels like it has come of age and given that it only costs a little more than the standard m2 it replaces it seems like a bargain, the engine could have stolen the headlines when it was announced , but in reality it's that the suspension is a weekly seat, so the star of the show, once you're behind the wheel, the changes mean it's now a proper M car with a tidier, more sophisticated feel, in the which reflects the appearance of the great arch. the way it pushes the accessibility layer and the ability of Chuck, which is really attractive now, let's say a cellular or GTS version