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BMW's n cars they look like angry versions of the car your dad used to drive and they go like stink in 2016 - new MSR on the way the m4 GTS and the car we're here to look at the all-new m2 this is the fastest - series money can buy and it looks like an angry - series which is good because it's sort of what it is now the previous quickest - you can buy the m235i was absolutely brilliant love that thing - bit but the m2 promises to be more his what's new first things first the look this is an aggressive looking car big arches huge air dams and some fantastic details have taken the 2 Series from pretty it's a pretty chuffing aggressive it'll come in four colors blue black white and grey and the only interior trim is black you can only have the 19-inch alloy as you see here - and the M standard quad exhausts are all present and correct under the bonnet is a puffed up version of the m23 5 is 3 litre turbocharged engine except in there is putting out 365 horsepower and 343 pound fit is top speed is limited to 155 miles an hour unless you take the right box on the options list then you get somewhere closer to 170 nought to 60 - takes 4.5 seconds with a manual or 4.3 with a dual clutch auto the important thing to take away here is that you can have this with a stick shift you can change gears yourself with a third pedal and everything and you don't get that in an Audi rs3 how's about the Eco stuff well in various configurations it'll manage 35.8 mpg and emit just 185 grams per kilometer of carbon dioxide which is not bad you've got a Leckie diff to make sure things stay the way they should be there's also the brilliant M dynamic mode which gives you a little bit of slip so you can be something of a hero but there still a safety net so you don't spot your brand spanking new car my favourite bit though is the smokey burnout mode there's a button for burnouts which is awesome and if you spec a manual it'll blip the throttle on the downshift so you don't have to the m2 I think looks a bit toned down compared to its predecessor the 1m coupe a but it certainly looks angry enough to make it stand out here's the thing could this be this generations m3 look back at the e30 it was small had a great turn of pace looked awesome and like the m2 wasn't super common only a few hundred m2 s will reach the UK each year it was also gladly brilliant and got the legions of people hooked on the m3 ethos nowadays the m3 is a serious bit of kit it's quite hardcore in some respects and it's also quite big the m2 is smaller cheaper and almost as quick is the kind of car that people can get into and then join the an eco system just that little bit earlier anyway with the m2 and the m4 GTS BMW centenary year is looking to be a very noisy very smoky and very fun one and before we go this is what the m2 sounds like