2016 BMW M2 Review by Top Gear

The new review of the 2016 BMW M2 has just been published by Top Gear. They firstly reviewed the car in February and they did the 7-Speed DCT version, while now they are reviewing the 6-Speed manual BMW M2.

The journalists and drivers around the world have only the good words for the new ‘Baby-M’. Many people consider it the best compact sports cars available today, and we can’t help but agree with that. Its 3.0-liter turbocharged engine purrs smoothly and gives a stunning performance, despite not being the most powerful there is.

You can check out the full 2016 BMW M2 review by Top Gear here, and in the meantime, read the excerpt down below.

Given a straight choice, the M3, but fronting up my own money, then the M2. The M3 feels a fraction more special to drive and the engine is sharper and more eager to rev. But the M2 has the better front end turn-in and steering response. That’s the highlight for me, actually – the way you turn the wheel with your wrists and feel the tyres respond by getting on their shoulders and knuckling down to work. You sense the whole car instantly hunch to the task and you know, even at modest speeds, precisely what the car is up to and how much it has in reserve.

Open the throttle mid-corner and where the M3 can become a handful, the M2’s differential has been better set-up, so it’s more progressive when it starts to break away.

So it’s a fun car, then?

It is, genuinely eager to please, a bit of a show-off and tremendously engaging. It looks ace, it’s a good size, I’d have it over an A45 or Audi RS3 in a heartbeat and reckon it would press the newly-turbocharged Porsche Cayman very hard.

In approach and demeanour it has more in common with the Focus RS than any of those, actually. We strapped the test gear to one of those recently too – 4.7secs for 0-60mph, but 11.3 to hit 100mph – over a second and a half slower than the M2 (although that was an M DCT version). Trouble with the Ford is its weight – it’s 1600kg.