2023 BMW M2 review. With 460bhp & RWD only, is the junior M-car actually the best of the bunch?

Not very long ago 1.7 tons used to be the weight of a M5, that's crazy.

Props to BMW for employing an all blind styling team.

can't help but miss those elegant clean lines of E39

You know you’ve been successful in life when your car tells you off for speeding on your own driveway😂

"It's just nonsense, that's just styling..." Current BMW's summed up in a throwaway comment 😂

This just makes the last generation look that much better.

At least BMW made it easy to make a Lego version of it with that styling.

I used to be glued to the screen, waiting for Top Gear's review of the lateast M-car. Now a days i can hardly keep my focus. I watched this with several pauses, not because there's anything wrong with Harry's work, but because i'm bored with the car before the video starts. Oh well... We have the memories, and the cars they used to build.

Might be easy to live with but it's very hard to look at. Can't think of any reason why an owner of the previous M2 would want to trade in for this.

It should not be possible for a car to look ghastly from every angle, but here we are.... Well done BMW on such an achievement.

The old one looked so much better

How can something that looks so cheap be so expensive?

We know it’s the small M car but… It’s bigger than the e92 m3. (And weighs the same) Nobody ever mentions this. 🙃

“Rear wheel drive, manual gearbox, what’s not to like?” The fact it’s so utterly and completely hideous. I seriously think the ‘M’ now stands for Monstrosity rather than Motorsport.

Good heavens BMW, you should send your styling department to Specsavers!

I think that’s one of the most repellent vehicles I’ve ever seen. And I thought the old one was nasty! Saw on on the road the other day and thought someone had tried to make their own body kit for it out of an old shower tub.

Nothing junior about this, 1700kg and starting at £65.000

I clocked 36k km in a 2019 M2 Competition in 12 months of wonderful driving on New Zealand's narrow highways. Loved every minute of driving although it had several features I didn't like including: 1) the steering wheel seemed to perfectly block out the speedo no matter how I configured it, 2)BMW love their seats to be hard as two planks, and; 3) no matter how I configured the seat, my right ankle would throb after 10 minutes driving. For me, eventually, they became deal breakers and I traded out of it after a year. This one just doesn't excite. Don't like the looks, it is far too heavy, and I bet all of my criticisms of the driving experience remain. Now, that Lotus Emira...that's ahead turner

👍 Harry thank you for helping articulate and explain what's wrong with BMW feel today. Numb, distant, disconnected. Fast! But not as feelsome as they used to be. 😢

This is one of the few new cars you just know a decade from now will cost more than it was in '23. By then the number of RWD drive new cars pushing 500 hp with a three-pedal manual will be very rare indeed.