As the last hurrah for pure internal combustion BMW M cars, is the new M2 the send off we all hoped for?
and it worked well there. That was in pre-prod form at the Salzburgring, and while I wouldn’t say the M2 is a track car per se – it’s a bit too heavy to qualify for that tag – it’s no slouch and felt precise and good fun. But this launch was all about its on-road character, and it wasn’t the car but the roads themselves that looked like being a problem. I began in Scottsdale, which is typically a grid layout with wide, straight roads and 40mph limits.
The lunch stop, at a quintessentially American town called Prescott offered a pick-me-up – my God, the cheesecake at The Palace saloon bar is quite something if you’re ever in the area. Afterwards, heading along Route 89, not far from a place called Potato Patch, things got better still. I’m not talking cheesecake this time but properly good roads at last, with some dramatic scenery as a backdrop.
Probably next in line for comment, if I try to work out an order here, is the steering. In Comfort mode it builds up heft nicely, and there is some fizz through the wheel rim, but it’s not frothing away like the best EPAS systems do. However, it’s not the weighting nor the feedback that makes it number two on my list of faves: it's how enthusiastically the M2 turns in. I remember this from the track drive last year, and on the road this aspect showed up again as a towering strength.
It’ll hit 62mph in 4.1 seconds if you opt for the eight-speed auto, or 4.3 seconds if you go for the manual. So it’s quick in either case, but the extra tenth or two isn’t why I’d opt for the auto. I appreciate I'm risking a permanent place on the PH naughty step there, but here's what I'd say in my defence: for a start, I did far more miles pulling paddles in an auto M2 than I did in a manual.
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