Twin test Booty vicious
BMW’s new small coupe has huge punch. Enough to take down Audi’s driftable 400bhp saloon?
Noticed the mirrors on the new BMW M240i? They’ve got the same bizarre twin-support-but-only-one-touchesthe-car motif as a proper M Division car. Why? Simple. BMW says it’s so fast, it deserves them. With four-wheel drive as standard, eight forward speeds and a 369 horsepower wallop, the new M240i needs only 4.3 seconds to get you from 0–62mph. That’s as quick as the original M2, and faster than the old V8 M3 GTS.
That’s why we’ve broken the rules on engagement. Strictly the hierarchy goes like this: normal A3 vs normal 2-Series, S3 vs M240i, and the RS3’s traditional rival would be the full-fat M2.
But the M240i is now so powerful, so fast and so four-wheel drive, this is a more interesting fight. The new-gen M2 is months away. The RS3 recently learned how to do handling too...