REVIEW | Fiery 2021 BMW M2 CS is a not-so-guilty pleasure

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Picture, if you will, a group of friends around a braai in a few decades’ time when car talk will be about the battery life and range of autonomous electric vehicles. Some of the older beer-clutchers in our imagined group (if fermented grain is still a ...

BMW’s M Division turned the 2 Series into an athlete with a snorting engine and an aggressive attitude.Picture, if you will, a group of friends around a braai in a few decades’ time when car talk will be about the battery life and range of autonomous electric vehicles.

One of the vehicles in awkward grandad’s recollections might very well be the BMW M2 CS. Not because it is anything like a Ferrari or a Lamborghini or a Koenigsegg in the pantheon of fire-spitting supercars, but because it is a car transformed from humble origins into what may well become a sports classic.

Having been available until now in an M2 Competition model, BMW’s compact projectile was recently launched in an even more rarefied version bearing the CS badge reserved for the most sporting BMWs. The wheels are black or matt gold lightweight 19-inch alloys wearing sticky Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres.

The first time I thrust the throttle in anger on cold tyres, I understood what makes this junior M car probably the most playful of the lot. Even with all its traction aids active, the M2 CS expressed its eagerness with a lively tail flick in the first two gears. The M2 CS is a hard ride even in the softest of its suspension settings, and positively teeth-jarring in its stiffest mode.Together with stability control, road-hugging ability is provided by an electronic active M Differential at the rear wheels, and a few laps around Gerotek’s handling course confirmed this Beemer’s driver-satisfaction credentials.

 

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