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BMW 2-Series & M2
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ROAD_DOGG33J
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If they were going to do barebones improvements on the design I think I would want to have the bottom of the front bumper painted and round out the rear bottom section. I took to paint.net to see how that would look like (also not a professional car designer). Don't mind the minor imperfections:
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The only thing, honestly, the only thing it has going for it, is it doesn’t have any undo slats or gills or strakes anywhere. Looks like a cheap plastic diecast car at the checkout. Black or green would be the Color to get it. I anticipate the race car should look better.
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The rest of the 4 series looking like the final generation of the Accord Coupe isn't better than the front of the 4 series. It makes me think BMW was going for the Benie Ecclestone chestnut of "demand something horrendous so you can compromise with what you actually want" but then both things got approved.
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Bmw is getting uglier by the day.
Really ugly it burns my eyes.
Really ugly it burns my eyes.
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Now you can gauge the muscular arch bulges better, those exagerated intakes at the front and outlet... blanks ...i guess, at the rear, don't look as out of proportion as they did in the original shots. They still look like heavy handed after-market bumpers though. Although i quite like it, i don't think the flat, pale colour it's in do it any favours as a show car.
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Official reveal today. Not badly priced at $63k starting. 453HP S58 still offered with a 6 speed manual.
2023 BMW M2 Promises to Be a Hoot with Wider Hips and 453 HP
Starting at $63,195, the new M2 remains the purist's BMW, and it shares more parts and traits with the M3/M4.
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I'm convinced the new M2 is a social experiment. Undoubtedly, it will be a fantastic car to drive, but just how awkward can the exterior styling get before customers refuse to buy it? 
Regardless of how it looks, I imagine there will be huge demand given it is the last mass-produced send-off for the ICE-only I6 configuration in an M car.
Regardless of how it looks, I imagine there will be huge demand given it is the last mass-produced send-off for the ICE-only I6 configuration in an M car.
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This Golf-segment coupe is now heavier than a Mitsubishi 3000GT. Let that sink in.
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The front end doesn't look great but it's not terrible (especially when compared to the M3/M4 / 7 series etc in the BMW lineup), the rear has some questionable lines, again not great but not terrible....maybe it is just me, the proportion looks a bit off but I do like the "from factory widebody bulge" that it comes with.
All that said though, I can see myself living with this one and I'm thinking it will likely look a lot better in person too so I'd definitely buy one if I were in the market for it.
Side note - now that this car is almost the size of an M4, are they going to build something smaller in their line up to replace it because it's not really that small anymore?
All that said though, I can see myself living with this one and I'm thinking it will likely look a lot better in person too so I'd definitely buy one if I were in the market for it.
Side note - now that this car is almost the size of an M4, are they going to build something smaller in their line up to replace it because it's not really that small anymore?
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What is going on at BMW's design department. It's been an absolute mess for years, now.
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What the hell is the packaging of this car. Why is it so goddamned bigger and absurdly heavier and more rectilinear over the previous car when there's no consummate increase in practical space? Why give it a big ass wheelbase stretch and length increase if the entire espansion is ahead of the doors? BMW can't even bother to phone in the reasoning companies have given for making their cars increasingly lardy over the past 30 years?
In two generations the car designed to be the fun entry level compact coupe successor to peoples' memories of the E30 has gotten a foot longer and 300 pounds heavier; and for what benefit?
In two generations the car designed to be the fun entry level compact coupe successor to peoples' memories of the E30 has gotten a foot longer and 300 pounds heavier; and for what benefit?
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They've chosen manufacturing efficiency over basically everything, including the packaging efficiency of the actual, you know, cars. This thing is on the same basic platform as the ****ing X7. They claim it is modular, but I suspect some of the hardpoints that have established the ridiculously cab-rearward proportions of the new 2 are consistent across all versions of the platform. BMW makes me more cynical than any automotive manufacturer, partly because I feel like their brand ethos has come simply cynicism itself. The way they have gone scorched earth on their own brand to pad their margins makes me ill. It's like somebody very lucidly decided that the BMW brand name was strong enough to produce a solid decade worth of utter **** with deliberately bad styling & thoughtless detailing while cheapening out as much as possible on the actual construction of the vehicle wherever they could get away with it.
They've chosen manufacturing efficiency over basically everything, including the packaging efficiency of the actual, you know, cars. This thing is on the same basic platform as the ****ing X7. They claim it is modular, but I suspect some of the hardpoints that have established the ridiculously cab-rearward proportions of the new 2 are consistent across all versions of the platform. BMW makes me more cynical than any automotive manufacturer, partly because I feel like their brand ethos has come simply cynicism itself. The way they have gone scorched earth on their own brand to pad their margins makes me ill. It's like somebody very lucidly decided that the BMW brand name was strong enough to produce a solid decade worth of utter **** with deliberately bad styling & thoughtless detailing while cheapening out as much as possible on the actual construction of the vehicle wherever they could get away with it.
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The red lamp thingy on the rear bumper looks weird.
No, that sink brings trouble everywhere it goes.
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Surprised no one posted the even worse M-Performance addons on the new M2. 
www.motor1.com
2023 BMW M2 With M Performance Parts Is Anything But Subtle
BMW is launching an array of M Performance Parts for the 2023 M2, including a rear wing and center-mounted quad exhaust tips.
www.motor1.com
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Into your driveway at that heft.
Just looked it up and the official, proper kerbweight (DIN + driver) for the base model is 1800kg (1775kg with the six-speed manual). That's 60kg heavier than the first version of the Nissan GT-R. It's 30kg heavier than my moronic SUV - which is a target for serial tyre deflaters because it's a heavy/wasteful SUV.
Absurd.
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It also seems to be about the same weight +/- as the current M3.
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