Evo Magazine June 2018 Edizione posteriore

NEW BMW M2
There’s no doubt the M2 was an appealing car, but for all its rowdy road and track behaviour and stock y stance, it never quite felt like the naughty exercise in back-room engineering that its 1M Coupe predecessor had. No longer: BMW’s new M2 Competition, which will replace the regular version in the M line-up, is arguably the car the M2 should have been from the start. There’s a sense, poring over the car’s details in the studio and jotting down all the changes, that this is the car the engineers wanted to build all along, squeezing a s much M4 into the 2-series’ compact form a s possible. Consider this then the true spiritual successor to those 2002 Turbos, E30 M3s and 1Ms. Something to worr y Audi’s RS3 and the nex t Mercedes-AMG A45, too. How big a worry we’ll find out later in the year. In the meantime, here’s ever y thing you need to know about 2018’s most exciting M-car.