Take An Up-Close Look At The Incoming BMW M2 CS
We’re big fans of the M2 Competition. It’s the car the M2 should have been from the off, with the ‘S55’ engine transplant from the M4 adding the extra bit of spice the original car was missing.
The only trouble is, it’s a bit of a fatty. The base M2 it replaced is already a bulky thing, and with the addition of the twin-turbo straight-six engine plus a petrol particulate filter, the Competition weighs in at a positively porky 1625kg.
Thankfully, though, there is a lighter version on the way. BMW has been trimming the fat to create a lighter, more focused ‘M2 CS’.
This video from Carspotter Jeroen - shot in the vicinity of the Nurburgring - gives us our best look yet at the car, showing the M2 CS with a different set of wheels to the M2 Comp, along with a boot spoiler similar to the one seen on both the CS M3 and M4. We can expect some chassis tweaks too.
It also sounds nice and throaty as it pulls away from the petrol station. Perhaps BMW has been fiddling with the exhaust too.
Hopefully, we won’t have to wait long before we find out exactly what’s been changed.
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.
Comments
Unpopular opinion but the S55 BMW engine sounds cr*p
+1 on that
Totally agree with you
still better than the N55 and the boxster F4
I think if you can afford an M2 you can probably afford an aftermarket exhaust system, I agree with you though
I don’t think it’s unpopular at all.. That’s what most people think especially coming from the e9xs v8.. it’s just that the time we bashed that sound has passed.
Petrol particulate filter? Fancy way of saying catalytic converter? Also, if it will follow the M3/M4 path, it will gain another 25+ hp, right? That woul be sweet.
I think its the type of particulate filter previously only seen only on diesels but as part of the new regulations is compulsory on petrols too