RE: 2019 BMW M2 CS spied testing
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This is a prototype . The original M2 looks pretty good. The production version will look better. This is why camouflaged cars with a hashtag on the side are seen. They are not hiding the very existence of the car, they do not want a half finished prototype being used for a photo on a website. The biggest risk to BMW design at the moment is the dilution of the two part BMW grille as seen on the M2 and M5 Competition models . The two part grille is something other manufacturers would kill for, and BMW are throwing it away.
As Dundee would say : https://youtu.be/POJtaO2xB_o?t=25
That's not a CS, THIS is a CS :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byXzlgDf1to
That's not a CS, THIS is a CS :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byXzlgDf1to
Dam that has got to be the ugliest M car ever built. Not designed by a car lover or someone with any taste.
BMW have lost the plot, the whole range looks the same dull cookie cutter style. Where are the new elegant muscular and instantly identifiable cars they used to make? When they try to fill every category with 2 and 4 door, hatch, saloon GT yawn yawn yawn.
They are all about making money and not making great cars - hence plunging sales. BMW we are bored!! Focus on doing less but very well.
BMW have lost the plot, the whole range looks the same dull cookie cutter style. Where are the new elegant muscular and instantly identifiable cars they used to make? When they try to fill every category with 2 and 4 door, hatch, saloon GT yawn yawn yawn.
They are all about making money and not making great cars - hence plunging sales. BMW we are bored!! Focus on doing less but very well.
Looks too tall and bloated for a coupe. And given how the steering totally lacks feedback, I'm not sure if there really is a way to improve it. What would I do about the fart can exhaust? I have no idea. I want to like this car, after all it's the closest it gets to an e46 m3 in context today, but these couple of things are important factors to me and I can't look past them.
Edited by C.MW on Tuesday 30th April 11:49
pmhadley said:
Dam that has got to be the ugliest M car ever built. Not designed by a car lover or someone with any taste.
BMW have lost the plot, the whole range looks the same dull cookie cutter style. Where are the new elegant muscular and instantly identifiable cars they used to make? When they try to fill every category with 2 and 4 door, hatch, saloon GT yawn yawn yawn.
They are all about making money and not making great cars - hence plunging sales. BMW we are bored!! Focus on doing less but very well.
Agreed, they've let the money talkers take the reigns of the business, gone are the days of small focused teams of enthusiasts building the special cars we used to drool over, replaced by design by committee and market research (but we were all saying this 15 years ago).BMW have lost the plot, the whole range looks the same dull cookie cutter style. Where are the new elegant muscular and instantly identifiable cars they used to make? When they try to fill every category with 2 and 4 door, hatch, saloon GT yawn yawn yawn.
They are all about making money and not making great cars - hence plunging sales. BMW we are bored!! Focus on doing less but very well.
I'd much rather see someone's singular vision over a mish mash of compromised design choices and the constant need for market share.
But we're petrolheads, we're not a business. Its tough times I think for them and the other european car makers, who up until not that long ago, had very little competition from the new brands.
I think they are trying to decide what their core business should be based around moving forward, they have the money to put out a plethora of cars for a few years to go fishing with, once they've got their data, I bet they trim the range. With the european market changing massively and the shift of wealth/design to China, I'd say there are a lot cards in the air at the moment.
Everything is changing.
Firstly why oh why PH do we have to Trawl to the bottom of page 4 to see the comments on what is a new article. It’s extremely annoying. Why not close the other thread and link to this?
Anyway, rant over this is starting to look nice although the “skinny” seats look very much like the ones M4 competition but with a bit of alcantara and I don’t believe they were lighter (I may be wrong). The interior carbon looks the same as a standard M2 Comp so really the only differences seems to be the S55 map from the M4 Comp, ceramic brakes and a carbon roof. No doubt BMW will look to charge £75k for the sum of those parts much like they did with the M4 CS which are now changing hands for £25k less than list with delivery miles.
Anyway, rant over this is starting to look nice although the “skinny” seats look very much like the ones M4 competition but with a bit of alcantara and I don’t believe they were lighter (I may be wrong). The interior carbon looks the same as a standard M2 Comp so really the only differences seems to be the S55 map from the M4 Comp, ceramic brakes and a carbon roof. No doubt BMW will look to charge £75k for the sum of those parts much like they did with the M4 CS which are now changing hands for £25k less than list with delivery miles.
Curiously - as the owner of an M2 Comp - I have little interest in owning a CS. Already have manual, definitely don’t want carbon roof as I like my sunroof (no I’m not a driving god and no, I can’t tell how like driving gods can that it ‘upsets the balance’), never thought I needed more power, better brakes or better seats, or any suspension changes. Even if they were the same price as a boggo Comp I’d stick with what I already have.
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