BMW M2 | PH Auction Block

Want a new track car for 2026? Here's just the thing

By Matt Bird / Sunday, 18 January 2026 / Loading comments

There are plenty of us who dream of building some kind of track car. Call it a clubsport, call it a road racer, call it circuit spec, it’s all broadly the same thing: make a standard performance car better suited to use on a track, without totally abandoning its road usability. It’s a popular idea because the end result should be a best of both worlds scenario: a car that works nicely on both Hanger Lane and the Hangar Straight, something that you’re happy to drive both to and from the circuit. Towing a Caterham with a Range Rover isn’t always a viable option, see.

All that being said, and however desirable a road-legal track car sounds, we all know why plenty of plans don’t get off the ground. For starters, the amount of track days we want to attend is often very different to the number we’re actually available for. Why bother modifying a car for two afternoons a year at Bedford? Plus there’s no escaping the fact that it takes an awful lot of time and money to really prep a car for circuit, both of which aren’t exactly easy to come by...

The solution, then, is something like this very smart BMW M2, where you take advantage of someone else’s significant spend and buy a Clubsport-style car that’s ready to roll. Opportunities to buy such a car really don’t come up very often, because people tend to want to make the most of their investment. But here we have an M2 with everything you’d want changed for a track spec build, all completed in the past year, just one or two tweaks away from whatever 2026 has in store. Tempting, right?

And when we see everything has been done, everything has been done: the M2 now has a cage, three-way adjustable suspension, AP Racing brakes, Recaro bucket seats with Schroth harness, a CAE shifter, lighter wheels, stickier tyres, new arms, new bushes, an extinguisher… the list goes on and on. In total, more than £30,000 has been spent on this M2 at Corten Miller in Boston to make it into the car you see here. All it’s said to need now are some new discs - the perfect opportunity to upgrade further, you might say…

Just as importantly, the useful bits of being a modern M car haven’t been jettisoned in the overhaul. There’s still air con, iDrive and interior storage, unlike some factory BMW specials that, maddeningly, do away with cupholders or useful door cards. There’d be absolutely nothing to stop you using this M2 every single day, adding to its modest 32k tally however you saw fit.

Then, with a spare weekend or weekday evening when the weather warms up, it promises to be an absolute blast. The standard M2 was always good fun on circuit, if sometimes a tad lairy for its own good. This promises all the joy of a front-engined, rear-drive, manual M car, with just a bit more stamina and discipline thrown into the mix. Which sounds pretty damn good to us. Bidding kicks off on Thursday, meaning the auction will end on the 29th, so that’s January done; February always goes in a flash, then it’ll be March, after which the fun can really begin. Best get booking your first track day for it…

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