Video: BMW M2 prototype, the first images

Posted on 21-05-2014 at 11:27 by sir_smokalot – 24 Comments”

Yes, it takes a lot of time until we get the BMW M2 is welcome, but the first moving images, we can still not let go, do you?

About the spiritual 1M-successor has long been speculated, but the last time the project will be a lot more real, especially now that the M2 outside for the first time should play on the Nürburgring. BMW will try to make us still have to fool with the 35i-uitlaatjes, but the knower has the by: here drive the most extreme production 2 Series in the making.

Bimmerpost kiekte the car around the Green Hell, and do story:

How do we know this is the M2?

• We’ve recently confirmed that the M2 is coming at the end of 2015 – early 2016 so the timing of this prototype makes sense.
• Flared fenders and wider track.
• M3/M4 (19″ Style 437M) wheels fitted for testing purposes. Even with these wider wheels, they are still tucked under the widened fenders.
• Same blue steel brakes as the M3/M4, with positioning the same as the M3/M4 (different than the M235i and M235i Racing).
• Drilled from rotors like M3/M4 (M235i is not drilled from/slotted and M235i Racing (M Performance Brakes) are drilled from and slotted).
• M limited slip differential (LSD) seen on the prototype.

Seems legit. We are very curious to know the specs and especially the weight! If I have a shot across the bow should do: 370-380 hp out of the 3.0 six-in-line (the 1M had a 340, and we must not get too close to the 431 horses of the M3/4, so that seems like a good number), and a DIN weight of 1.360 kg. Of course, he gets to drive the achterwieltjes, but there will also be an xDrive-varant? And dare BMW to then with an expensive, stripped-down, hardcore M2 ‘GTS’?

We expect the M2 sometime in 2016, with probably a concept in the back of 2015.

Hoedtik to 2Addicts for the tip!

UPDATE – another video: