The last BMW M2 CS didn’t arrive until 2020, at the very end of the F87’s time on sale. It came, it skidded, it won almost everybody over - and a follow-up seemed absolutely guaranteed. Not least because the M3 and M4 have now had back-to-back generations of CS in the modern era, all of which have been pretty damn great.
Hopes will be high for this new M2 CS, then - arriving just a couple of years after the standard one - given what a giggle the last one was and how impressive the latest batch of CS M cars have been. There’s literally nothing confirmed for the moment, with tech specs to follow next week; there are just these Lake Como images to pore over. We’d expect a similar overhaul to that seen on the ostensibly more senior cars: a nominal weight saving, sticky Michelins, somewhere in the region of 500hp from the S58 six and a suspension overhaul to really make the most of it on road and track. There’ll probably be a spicy Nurburgring time coming, alongside a price nearing £100,000. You know the CS drill by now.
Perhaps the bigger quandary will be whether the CS can retain a manual gearbox. It was possible with the old M2, and the standard car retains a six-speed option; this car could potentially be quite the sign-off for rear-wheel drive, three-pedal M cars. They’d be able to charge even more for it as the final manual, too. But that’s all to be confirmed next week. For now, we have this little ripper to look at, complete with a CSL-style bootlid sweep and a very serious set of seats. Plus what looks like an auto gearlever…
This is the real thing too, the actual G87 M2 CS, not some design study preview. So customer cars really will have a rear-end treatment this outrageous, the M3 CS-style wheels and punchy bodykit. Hopefully colours other than grey will be available. All will be revealed on May 27th...
1 / 10
![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 4 3"%3E%3C/svg%3E)
![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 1 1"%3E%3C/svg%3E)