Sorry, A BMW M2 GTS Isn’t Going To Happen
When driving the car for the first time last week, our man Alex Kersten found that - despite a lot of plus points - the M2 isn’t quite the hardcore beast its 1M predecessor is. So, will it ever get any angrier? The M4 after all has its GTS version, but if the massive price jump for that car were to be replicated for the M2, it might be a tricky car to fit in the range. Sure enough, when asked about the possibility of such a car at the UK launch of the M2 last week, BMW UK quashed the idea of an ‘M2 GTS’ ever happening.
Confirming the stance, BMW UK told us this week: “while the GTS derivative of the M4 has proved very popular currently there are no plans to develop a GTS version of the M2.” And sure enough, it’s all down to cost. “The M2 is an affordable starting point for full M car ownership and any GTS option would be considerably more.”
So, there we have it. If you want a more hardcore M car, you’ll need to make the jump to the M4…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Who cares? It would be overpriced limited edition sh*t, with +20 HP…Go search for tuning factories, they will do the job…
Yeah they said there would be no M Version of the 1 Series when they first introduced it. Then look what happened.
Oh well. There’s always AC Schnitzer for that.
to be fair… i wouldn’t buy a GTS M car anyway. It’s a lot of money for something thats only marginally faster in the real world, and it’s too expensive to thrash on track on a regular basis anyway. I’d buy an M2 and make it my own, probably end up being cheaper and just as fast (in my clumsy hands)
To be fair i don’t think the buyers of those cars really give a damn about price.
But water injection though.
I bet G Power will do a Hardhardhardcore version of the M2 then.
Great concept art!
With a weight of 1570Kg it is allmost criminal not make it lose weight.
The M2 is one of M’s best creations since 2012. But, just imagine if it used a CF roof, bonnet, boot and propshaft. I mean this car is only like 30kg lighter than the much bigger M4 right?
They always say it won’t happen then 8 months later it happens. They said a hardcore M4 would never happen. Yeah… the GTS has water injection and a roll cage. Lol.
Because what they call the modern day E30 is just perfect @ 1500 kg…. Come on BMW, you know you want to!