The 453-hp BMW M2 and the 500-hp Ford Mustang Dark Horse take performance coupes to new heights.
From the May/June issue of Car and Driver.Elsewhere in this magazine is a comparison test of eight rational compact SUVs that carry families, haul groceries, and do the daily grind honorably. Here, we compare two examples of a very different type of automobile.
Defeated by most gas stations and their entrances, it's not good when the late-'80s gauge cluster is the clearest one, a few infotainment-related problems. The last—and best—of its kind.The BMW offers more screen acreage with a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster and a 14.9-inch center touchscreen embedded in the dash. There's an almost overwhelming level of configurability, which makes finding an operation as basic as disabling lane-keeping assist a user-experience nightmare.
Can't hear it over the Mustang's V-8, optional seats are hard and difficult to get out of, shifter lacks the crisp engagement of the Stang's. A practical, powerful, and fun sports coupe—the kind BMW used to make.During our stopping tests, the Mustang's humongous 15.4-inch two-piece iron front rotors, six-piston calipers, and sticky summer tires dug in. The Dark Horse stopped from 70 mph in 141 feet, 10 feet sooner than the M2, and from 100 mph in 274 feet, 23 less than the BMW.Both the Mustang and the M2 gained some weight with this generation.
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