BMW has been testing its new M2 at Austria's Salzburgring race track, a fearsome 4.2km circuit around which the engineers could hone the coupé's chassis and driving dynamics.
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You know that an automaker does a solid, high-performance job with its cars whenever reviewers tend to pit cars from the same brand against each other. With that carmaker being BMW, it’s logical that one of the contenders is of the 2021 M3 or M4 variety. But, for good measure, in the other corner of the track ring there’s one of our all-time favorites, the M2 CS. 31 photos
In case anyone got bored of seeing the M3/M4 siblings going against rivals from other brands, here’s another battle of the internecine war variety, courtesy of Mat Watson’s personal YouTube channel. This time around, instead of comparing the results of the M4 Competition with a larger sibling or bringing in an older generation for the M3 duel, we’re dealing with two cars that are almost on the same page in terms of pricing.
The junior M has got the stuff to make it a sports classic The feisty BMW M2 CS is a not-so-guilty pleasure 14 March 2021 - 16:00 By Denis Droppa
Picture, if you will, a group of friends around a braai in a few decades’ time, where car talk will be about the battery life and range of autonomous electric vehicles. Some of the older beer clutchers in our imagined group (if fermented grain is still a pleasure to be enjoyed in this faraway scenario) might throw into the conversation some nuggets from the golden age of fuel-guzzling “character” cars.
To eye rolls from the younger contingent who would have never experienced internal combustion engines, these slightly soused, grizzled old petrolheads may go misty-eyed in recounting tales of C02-spewing sports machines that were at times impractical, uncomfortable, loud and politically incorrect. But while they were busy killing the planet, man, did they make you feel alive.