NEW BMW M2 COUPE REVEALED – NEW BMW M2 COUPE REVEALED
New BMW M2 auto appear – New BMW M2 auto appear Sensational new auto set to yield the action to Porsche Cayman
It’s a BMW Â M car revolution! Auto Express can acknowledge the account every fan of the BMW’s M analysis will wish to hear… The close is gearing up to battling the Porsche Cayman and Audi TT RS with a new M2 coupé.
We batten alone to the M Division’s new managing director, Dr Friedrich Nitschke, and he appear the car was key to his plans. Plus, it’s alone the start.
A advocate new M3 is aswell in the pipeline, and there are discussions over a Lamborghini Aventador-rivalling supercar. The aggressive affairs will advice BMW yield the action to the quattro GmbH achievement arm which makes S and RS-badged Audis, additional the R8.
The M2 will be based on the firm’s F21 belvedere – aswell set to affirm the 2 Series, due aboriginal in 2014 – and has a front-mounted engine active the rear wheels.
One BMW cabal has told us the newcomer, a absolute descendent of the 1 Series Coupe, will be instantly recognisable from the entry-level car with its adventurous look.
Our antecedent aswell explained that BMW will not archetype Audi’s “sausage factory” access to design. This agency the animated new 2 Series will get different foreground â?¨and rear end styling, as our absolute images reveal.
The new 2 brand will aswell advice BMW administer its archetypal range, back the 1 Series ancestors has broadcast to cover hatch, coupe, cabriolet and crossover models. Plus, it will affected the botheration of application M branding in affiliation with the 1 Series nameplate.
The aggregation is currently testing two engines. The aboriginal – a 3.0-litre six-cylinder turbo – offers about 350bhp and is actual agnate to that in the 1M Auto (tested on Page 56). The additional is an avant-garde tri-turbo, giving agnate achievement but bigger ammunition economy. This will admission in a new X3M at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September.
Power will be fed through BMW’s all-new DCT semi-automatic transmission, while the brakes will be taken from the accepted M3. To accumulate the newcomer’s weight to a minimum, the close is accepted to accomplish all-encompassing use of the avant-garde carbon fibre-reinforced plastics it has developed for its Activity i cars.
This material, which was aboriginal adopted on the E46 M3 CSL, is stronger than animate and yet acutely light. What’s more, it is abundant easier to adjustment than carbon fibre.
Nitschke told us: “In the 1M Coupe, we accept a amateur car for the M Division, and we are continuing to advance this project. Such models have to be sporty, and action abnormally low ammunition consumption. This is something we could accomplish with the M2. I anticipate the 1M Auto proves there is allowance for an M2, a coupe.”
The all-new two-door is accepted to access actuality in 2015 – and if appeal for the 1M Auto is annihilation to go by, it’s set to be a huge exhibit success. BMW letters that alone 30 of the 450 right-hand-drive versions of the two-door 1 Series it has congenital abide unsold.
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