REVIEW: We've driven the BMW M2 coupe on track a full year before its UK market launch - read our review to find out if it's as feisty as its forebears
“We knew the platform would bring some added size and weight,” explains M Division project dynamics manager Sven Esch, “and we had to decide very early on whether to fight with that weight at every stage, sacrificing many things in order to deliver the lowest figure we could; or to accept and work with it, and simply to use the best technology at our disposal to maximise the car’s performance across the board.
BMW clearly isn’t quite ready to communicate exactly what the new M2 weighs ; but they will admit where the majority of its M Division mechanicals - its axles, chassis braces, gearboxes, active locking rear differential, and its turbocharged six-cylinder ‘S58’ engine - come from. “That decision about weight meant we could take as many components as we liked from the M3 and M4 for this car; and that’s really what we did, because we know how good they are,” admits Esch.
Fairly heavy disguise covered the interiors of both manual and automatic M2s presented to us for initial track testing, and so there’s little to report with any certainty about cabin layout and specification. Both cars had good, low, enticing driving positions and well-located primary controls, though, as well as all-digital instrument displays with extra ‘head-up’ instrument projectors.
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