Each year, Motor Authority drives the quickest, fastest, and most luxurious vehicles on the planet to tell you which are the best. This year we had a bumper crop of amazing new machines. The Acura NSX is back, and so is the Audi R8—and we're finally driving the rally-tastic Ford Focus RS. Which one's the best one for your garage and your wallet? The...
BMW has dialed up the 2-Series in every way possible to create the M2, but the two-door bottle rocket does without things that don't add to its performance. There are no M mirrors, no carbon fiber roof, no special seats. The bulging fenders, wider tires, and quad exhaust tips send all the right signals without going overboard. The dash is standard 2-Series fare, but the sport seats and accent stitching are nice touches that hint at its performance.
And that's appropriate because the M2 is all in when it comes to performance. A 3.0-liter inline-6 with a twin-scroll turbocharger pumps out 365 horsepower to the rear wheels, which are wrapped in sticky Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires.BMW sells a dual-clutch gearbox, but skip it. #GiveAShift with the 6-speed manual instead. It’s terrific, with its short, smooth throws, and a stubby, leather-wrapped shift lever that snicks positively into gears.
Stout performance is the M2's calling card. It sprints from 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds with the manual, or 4.2 seconds with the dual-clutch. The top speed's electronically limited to 155 mph, but you'll only see that if you're really having fun. Let's hope it's on a track. Push the start button, slide it into first gear, and the M2 sends out an invitation to beat the living crap out of its drivetrain. Launch it, get the turbochargers on full boil, wring it out to its 7,000-rpm redline—you'll see why BMW earns its reputation for making brilliant powertrains.
The M2's handling is in another league, on the street and on the track. It doesn't need fancy adaptive dampers to control its ride or to connect the dots from apex to apex. The steering isn't perfect—it's a little too heavy and a little too numb—but it's direct and predictable. The M2's big brakes are brilliant, with no fade and no pulsing after a day of thrashing it through winding mountain roads or even a racetrack.
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