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WHY WE'RE RUNNING IT
To celebrate the survival - and indeed evolution of the proper sports coupé
It's very easy to criticise the new BMW M2. To say that it has a harsh ride, or that it looks ugly compared with the last one, or that it's really heavy. And while it's 119mm longer and 230kg heavier than the car it replaced, BMW has achieved exactly what it should have: the M2 is fundamentally improved over the last one.
As for how it looks, if you remove all subjectivity from the equation and judge it as a successful or unsuccessful piece of automotive design, I'd say this is more a case of the former. It is well-proportioned, and undoubtedly looks like a BMW and, while it might be fussy in places, I believe it will stand up to the test of time much better than its key rivals.
BMW could have played it safe, evolved the formula and given us a car that, apart from slimmer front and rear lights and maybe wider haunches, would have looked the same as its predecessor. But it didn't, and so here we are today.
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