Ciao everyone, here it's Marchettino and today we play with a rather enraged M!
Today I'm with my friend Simone at BMW Meeting Club Italia and we're back behind the wheel of an M, and what an M!
What an M, damn!
It's an M with big balls, what do you think? - The M2 Competition is a car I've been waiting to test for a while,
I got to drive the standard M2 and I was curious to see the difference on the Competition.
I would say, the difference is huge, isn't it? - Absolutely, this is more than a facelift.
Way more, we may define it as an M4 put in the dryer.. a bit reduced!
Basically yes because the biggest difference of the Competition lies in front of us.
This engine is amazing, the difference between the old N55 - the single turbo, 370hp engine - and this, it's huge!
Not just because of the power, +40hp and +50nm but because of the power delivery, this S55 (same of the M3/M4) with 21hp less
it's incredible the day it delivers the power - Compared to the old M2, it's much more rough, more enraged and when you drive this you realise the other M2
it's rather docile and balanced, this is more desiged towards experienced drivers that want to go fast.
It offers also that kind of performance the old M2 wasn't able to offer because that engine was very balanced for that car but
the performance weren't its best part, nor the tuning because also that's an important side for those who buy cars like this
everyone make some modifications - It's a bad habit!
I need to thank both BMW Italia and Autoeur Brandini because this M2 Competition is manual!
It has the gearbox for women! Let's see how it goes.
Not bad, isn't it?
Pedals are perfect, you can even allow the electronics to rev-match automatically on downshifts.
Rev-match system is amazing, auto heel-toe is very useful, it allows to speed up gear changes.
When you go very fast on a mountain pass like this, you realise auto rev-match is very useful.
I find it a bit more unbalanced to the standard M2, it moves nicely but you need more bravery to drive it around these roads,
Here we have a short wheel base - Very short - And when the rear slides, and I can confirm it, I drove it in the rain and through a snow storm
When it slides, it's very aggressive, definitely!
I drove it at Mugello on wet during an M-Track with Guidare&Pilotare
Sorry?
Sorry, I blocked for a second!
at a Guidare&Pilotare event that I really recommend; it was at Mugello but with DKG gearbox,
as you know wet has the positive side to enhance the positive and negative sides of a car,
you realise the M2 Competition (to me and also for the instructor that was with me) has a way too short wheel base for this engine because
this car wasn't originally designed with this engine and torque, so here's why the standard M2 is more balanced.
This engine is crazy, undoubtedly! - Crazy but if you can't handle it, maybe it's too much.
It starts to get dangerous. One important thing, after having driven it DKG and found it very enraged, I expected the manual to be the perfect car to embrace a tree
and paradoxically I had to change my mind, people won't believe but that's it:
DKG has more gears than the manual, the great thing but not so great in this case is that it allows to keep the car at high revs with the power always ready
You always have the full power ready! - Always available!
This is extremely positive on a N/A like on my M3 V8 you realised you always have it at high revs - Difference is huge!
It's really huge, it feels like to be driving another car because you take a lot more advantage of it.
In this case, having a lot more responsiveness make it less docile. Against all expectations, the manual here
make it more docile due the lag caused by the gearbox - You can unleash it a bit more and more safely.
You have that lag between every gear change that make the car more predictable and less rough.
It goes against all logic but now I know why many friends bough the M2 Competition with the girl's gearbox, now I know why!
There's a reason!
This car's a toy! Manual on a road like this, you always smile!
True that!
The engine is enraged! - Mamma mia, very enraged!
With this manual, the gears are long - Very long and you know what? Compared to DKG, it feels like it pulls 'till redline
whereas with DKG it feels like it reaches the limit, here it feels like it pulls 'till the redline
You can tell the difference especially with the old M2 because that was single turbo, here you have 2, it pulls very much!
In these tight bends we can appreciate the steering - It's amazing! - Also the precision in the turn in!
The fact to have the M4 engine with its carbon strut brace, it allows to have a totally different front compared to the previous one,
it has the same incisiveness of the M4, the front has truly changed!
So I tell you, whereas I prefere the standard M2 with DKG, if I had to buy an M2C (and I say it softly) and cover your ears! I would buy it manual.
DKG! - Let me put neutral so I hear you - I already said DKG! -You sure?
You want us to crash?!
The glass was getting misted! - And now? - Damn it!
Go - Where do I go I can't see anything!
This car is fabulous, I really like it but there's one thing I dislike and don't get on this car.
BMW offers this car with the manual which is something a few companies offer nowadays - This is a good thing
Which means BMW care about its enthusiasts and purist,
why they put fake noise through the speakers?
It's a good engine and with a proper exhaust you hear it, why this move? I don't get it.
As enthusiast, I prefer a genuine but soft and sound, rather than an exaggerated sound through the speakers. I get this on the i8,
you have a 1.5L there's no sound - It has the engine of a mixer!
In that case I get why the sound come through the speakers, here I don't see the need DAMN IT!
I would have preferred a louder exhaust and avoid the fake noise - It wasn't absolutely necessary.
No, at all. - Sadly, whenever you hit the throttle you hear it and once you realise it, it's always there!
Maybe you get used but this car and the manual gearbox are so designed for enthusiasts and purist
and then they ruin on this side which is very important, the noise is our blood - For an enthusiast it's everything.
Another great thing of the M2C is the possibility to offer the M Performance brakes,
composed by 400mm brake disks and 6-pump calipers that finally are worth it to this car because as we always said,
sadly M cars have always had the defect to have underpowered brakes compared to their performance, especially for track use,
and finally this system is balanced to the car. Only let down, personally with this engine these brakes should have been standard.
Between M4 and M2C, I think I'd go for this. I feel this is more sporty and more enraged at high speed.
It's more fun and usable because as we said, the different of the wheel base has a defect concerning power delivery
but on the other side, it's more usable on the road and this is very positive, on the road it's fantastic and incredibly fantastic with this gearbox.
YOU SAID IT!
The gearbox in rev-match because it's fantastic and helpful, it's an incredible mix!
Great for drifting also! It's perfect for drifting! - I don't know, I've been told it drifts nicely
They told me also, i've never seen it in person, but it's good.
Overal, BMW has taken the best bits of the M4 and put on a car that according to many, it had to be more enraged since the beginning.
When the M2 came out, it was a good car and in the right standard of the category - I liked it very much because it was very balanced and reminded me the M3 E46.
Usable and with the right power. - And with a few features (not said in a negative way), no driving settings, no adjustable suspensions, no exhaust valves,
everything on the standard M2 is more genuine, on the M2C is more refined here's why it's more like a baby M4 rather than a big M2.
It's more refined than the M2, there's no M2 genuinity here.
They truly changed it.
Of course in a better way under many points of view, BMW has done a great job.
Many expert said the M2C remind us the old M, the glorious M cars, what do you think?
I think that with the M2C BMW has created an M car that is worth to wear this badge, the old M2 reincarnate perfectly your thought
because it has the right power, it's very balanced, easy and fun to play - Very M3 E46 style - Exact it reminds the M3 E46
and starting from this base, I like the upgrade BMW did by making it more enraged but also more dangerous at the same time!
An embracing-trees car!
Driving this car with the electronics off is dangerous!
As long as the road is dry, everything is ok! - It's ok, but if it rains, park it, that's all
Don't even put winter tires, just leave it in the garage!
Being able to appreciate in 2019 a RWD, manual exotic, it's not a small thing!
No at all, I agree with you, it's so fun!
If I had to buy a car for drifting, I'd go for an M2C!
How I like to end videos like this!
Simply fantastic, thanks again BMW Italia and Autoeur Brandini for letting us drive it around this amazing - but bumpy - road!
Do to again, maybe on summer? - On summer, that's for sure!
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I remind you in the video description below you find the link to Simone's BMW Meeting Club group and as always thanks for watching, ciao!