CATCH‘EM WHILE YOU CAN
These fire-breathing sports cars are the last of their kind – so, which one should you give a home to before its extinction?
Photography: John Bradshaw
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BMW M2 3.0 manual
List price £66,090 Target Price £64,490 The latest iteration of BMW M division’s entrylevel model packs more power than ever, plus it’s cheaper to buy than its
Porsche rival and has two more seats
Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0 manual
List price £75,575 Target Price £75,575 Our 2023 Sports Car of the Year has a glorious engine and sweet handling, plus it’s considerably lighter than the M2. Are those things enough to offset its power deficit?
BMW M2
1 Touchscreen can display a ‘drift analyser’ and lap timer. In track mode, the display switches off altogether
2 Tall bolsters on these bucket seats (part of the £9095 M Race Track Package) make getting in and out awkward
3 Pedals are noticeably offset to the right, and some will find the steering wheel too high in its lowest setting
BEST DRIVING POSITION
1 Tall gearlever is well placed for sporty driving, but you might find it obstructs your view of the buttons ahead of it
2 Standard sports seats have electric backrest adjustment, but fore/aft and height alterations must be done manually
3 A 4.6in screen between the analogue dials displays a range of data, including sat-nav and power statistics
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ack when CDs first arrived and looked like consigning
vinyl records to the history books, purists feared losing the warmth and honesty of sound that they were used to.