BMW M2 CS

BMW's latest 'Competition Sport' special M car is one about which it's surprisingly hard to be cynical The BMW M Division’s now very well-established approach in conjuring mid-life interest in its modern M cars could easily rouse the cynic in you.Now that we’ve had CS - and, in one case, even CSL - versions of just about all of the really core M cars of the last ten years or so, the pattern is so well rehearsed that we may wonder if it’s beginning to make regular M cars a little bit less special, in order for enough weight-saving-, power-boosting and driveline-enhancing fairy dust to be kept back for the ‘Competition Sport’ specials. Frankly, how could it not be?However, when the latest bit of that strategy is made manifest in a car like the BMW M2 CS, such cynicism becomes rather harder to maintain. By ‘harder’, I mean impossible, quite honestly. There’s just an abiding sense of rightness - righteousness, even - about it. It’s the consummation of something right at the core of the M Division’s identity - and so wonderfully executed and significant that it almost feels wholesome.