Blast off! We drive a prototype of BMW's new M2 and the signs are good...
First impressions of new hot M coupeThe starting formation on the makeshift grid is an odd mix of almost new and ostentatiously unfinished metal. The pair of thinly disguised M2 pre-production cars – one manual and one automatic – is led by a hyperblue M4 Competition with Dirk Häcker, chief engineer of the BMW M division, at the wheel. I am right behind him in this psychedelic multi-blue, multi-pattern liveried M2.
The version equipped with the eight-speed Steptronic matches the acceleration time recorded for the M4 with manual transmission at 4.2 seconds. The provisional number for the do-it-yourself M2 – yes, there’s still a manual option – is 4.5sec. While the M4 with the M driver’s package can top 181mph, its more compact sister model throws in the towel at 178mph.
The M2 pictured here sports the optional lightweight carbon fibre roof as well as gaudy carbon-fibre racing seats, also an extra. The electric buckets may save weight over the standard comfort chairs, but their radically contoured shape does not fit everybody – and neither will the and the contrasting yellow, green, orange or blue leather upholstery options.
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