3500 Miles Final Verdict BMW M2 G87 Goodbye | 4k 

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I love how Joe explains the reason behind the config settings. If you are a car enthusiast, this channel is a must to have in your subscription list

Love it from the day it was born. Nice. Brilliant video Joe.

Great review, very honest, as always. Following you since 2019, keep doing what you are doing!

I went together with a buddy of mine to pick up his brand new M2. The baby blue one. Carbon buckets, carbon roof and pretty much all bells and whistles. What a nice car really. 👌

Joe thank You for the great content. After a longer while my order for G87 ZBlue was placed. I looked forward to this moment for a very long time. Watching Your channel helped my to build my own spec. I am sure it will be a lots of fun! Cheers Mate!

Great Vid Joe as always! Take care..

Great video, Joe. I love your BMW content. It's one of the reasons why I bought mine.

Cracking review Joe and very honest, the looks are growing on me, it takes awhile some times, even the M3 grille is getting there, hate the lane assist on my M340 has scared me at times! Keep up the good work! 👍

Saw yours in the metal at the MotoGP last year. I was then subsequently invited to test drive a G87. I have extensively driven a F87 and the G87 was such an improvement. The F87 was sublime but the G87 just turned tweaked it and improved in every day...maybe not on the gearbox as I was comparing DCT on the F87 to the Torque Convert on the G87. The lasting thoughts were how nimble and light it felt. The front end was incredible.

An absolutely fantastic sports car as a daily, and backroads. Its suspension and handling is incredible, plenty of power, and when mixed with a 6 speed manual, you can’t ask for a better setup. Excellent review.

Fantastic video sir.

Another great review. Thanks mate.

Top work, as usual👍

Good vid ! I had one for 24h recently and enjoyed it.

Love my 2021!

Loved the end of term review - thorough as always ! Totally agree with the manual gearing issue in 6th and can’t imagine the annoying bongs as we don’t get them in our Oz spec cars. Those frozen colours look tasty. Appreciate the shout out and clip - epic memories. ❤👊🏻

Fantastic work

Very interesting and conprehensive take. One thing regarding TC, Rubens Barrichello (former F1 driver) took it to the track and called out TC at 4 to be the optimal setting for lap time.

Thanks Joe..you guided me to the "right" purchase of our previous '19 230i xDrive and more recently, our x3 M40i. Drove both a current M2 AT at BMW PDC in Greenville, SC and a z4 s30i locally. Those two are my considerations. Saw a new Alpine White/Cognac z4 M40i Handschalter today....wish I could have driven that one!

Great review Joe!

I had a test drive in the G87 a while back, The interior is on another level from the F87 but on the road it felt HUGE to me compared to my F87 and I also thought the dash was a bit fussy ( I guess you would get used to it )

Another great review Joe 👏🏻. 220 mile range would be too low for me. I get 500 miles out of my 330i N53 on a long trip. Went to the Nürburgring recently and didn’t have to fill up the entire way there. A big bonus when it’s bad weather & dark etc.

Great video as always Joe. I think one of these would be a pretty perfect second car if you’ve got an SUV / Estate etc. to cover the practical things, but as a one car proposition, it’s the ‘new’ M3 / M4 that appeals more to me

Thank you SO much for saying you leave rev-matching on. I love that feature! But some journalist and fans want to act like they are experts and they aren't. They complain about an option they can take off. But I feel like you can be real !

I was hoping to hear a comparison between this M2, and the RS3 you fell in love with, and wanted to own!

Fabulous video again. I really miss my M4 and due to company tax rules had to get a Tesla M3P but it’s nothing like the passion and love you feel for an M car. Glad I’m not the only one who calls them horsies!

Love that. Thanks. I want one!

So a pre-flight checklist is needed. Wonderful. I bet there’s a way disable any bong noise through the stereo controller.

Excellent video

Thanks for a great review summary, Joe. Pretty accurate summation of the pluses and minuses, I think. Not a perfect car, but a damn good one. BTW, I think it's hysterical you and Harry Metcalfe have the same "special" corner for filming videos. 😊

Really great cars !!

As a horse owner - thank you soo much for setting the example ❤

Nice video, loved my previous generation M2 Comp. Also nice to see you comment on lane assist, on my current M4 it tried to kill me numerous times in roadworks or the dark, where it get horribly confused. Most of the emergency assistance turns off in heavy weather (when you really need it) BMW are pretty good at this stuff, its just saying to me driverless car tech is genuinely a long way away from being properly usable and safe.

Hi Joe. I have exactly that spec in Australia we don’t have the bongs, gongs etc as we are exempt from stupidity at the moment but I love the carbon seat it’s such a nice feeling when driving the car. I have the manual and I just love the extra involvement it brings. I have added a lot of extra details like splitter, eibach springs etc and I get asked everywhere I go about the car. There is a massive M following down under as you know from your last trip and from my experience the M2 is always just so much fun. Let’s face the facts it is being fazed out of life but people out there if you want a great drivers car and not at bonkers hyper car prices, get an M2 you will not regret it.

I feel better for not ordering a manual now. Our new pair are both autos. Thanks for the useful info on disabling stupid bongs too 😁👍

I have seen a few will full m kits and lowered and they actually look good in grey or black It’s grown on me as long as it’s in a nice colour and full m kit, bar the exhaust

Super informative and onest review! Happy to see the pixel 8 pro in there, I would be happy to hear your opinion about it, I am a long time nexus and pixel user.

Hi Joe👍, great summation of your time with the M2. What a faff to start every journey switching off things but as you say legislation dictates car suppliers now. Fair round up at the end buddy 👍. Hope to see the M3 touring very soon 💞😎

DONG 😂 Great video bro 👊

Its wonderful. Have my 24 Black 8-speed auto with regular seats (M accents) with the sunroof and saving almost 10k that way. Its a wonderful daily. I have 2 stoplights on my way to work and fun hillside backroads. The M2 just eats up the corners and is a rocketship on demand. But beyond "livable" at 6am on a Monday. Its not cheap but compared to others with similar performance, M3/4 comp. Alfa's or Cayman GTS. It's almost a bargain. Almost went for the CT4 blackwing though and honestly its a good contender in that $60k US world too

I really like the styling, did since the day I saw one. It's not as 'raw' as the OG M2 (of which I am a massive fan and owner), but man what an absolute machine. Wouldn't have one in that light blue, it just screams Hyundai i20N.

I love the styling...looks much better in person.

Bought a new 2 series two weeks ago and the bongs can be switched off permanently.. turn lane assist down to minimum and you hardly notice it,without switching it off every time you start. Great car..😎

Superb review, as ever! I'd love to get my hands on one of these, but the m240i is more likely

400 miles into mine, my M1 settings are similar to yours - except I have autoblip off. Start up is control wheel forwards (to shortcuts), Drive settings, Speed limit warning off, Lane assist off and confirm), then M1. One fewer action than your way. I am undecided about 'M sound'. I am also quite interested in M Mode Sport - which puts the rev counter onto the head-up display as well as turning off speed limit warnings. For me the downside is that if you use cruise (which I often do) it sets it back to road. By the way, you can apply a few mph tolerance to the speed limit warnings but I still want them fully off. Joe do get in touch.

I had a 2020 M2. It was my first BMW after owning 4 Audis in a row. I had several small issues with it though. A rear seal gasket went, there was a belt noise I never did get rid of despite taking it in 3 times and a couple other little things. I traded it in on the new RS3. Guess I'm just an Audi guy.

Great review Joe. It's amazing how much more love this new M2 is getting now that people have spent time with it. After "the internet" just decided, en masse, that this car was a joke when it was first announced, turns out it's pretty darn good! Dunno if you saw Chris Harris' recent review on Collecting Cars, but that was basically what he was saying too (and he was one of the haters initially). Loving your content Joe, thanks heaps for pumping out all the high quality stuff.

The M2 is the only true M car I’d want/purchase. Love the old school (late 80s) M3 design! It’s a porker, but it has a lot of historical charm. As soon as the M2 becomes available as a CS model with AWD, I’m a buyer! Great presentation. Cheers/B

Great video as always mate 👏👏👏 Zunsport grilles (or similar) are needed on these cars though

Had an all day test drive from Rybrook now Sytner Shrewsbury, great fun car to drive really engaging, never had one bong gong or anything tbh, I guess the dealerships don’t like them either 👍

Joe great review - agree with your comments my G87 is more Fun than when I had G82. I ❤ my T.R so which colour would you choose against the very limited choice. Miss 360’ cameras thought

A top car ❤

i drive g31, you are right, i have had cases as well, when car decided to brake and steer where it should not, not very safe imo. for me thankfully its one button hold and all that is off, but nowdays that button is gone

Amazing car mate, the bmw track day i did, we had all the M cars and at the end of the day they asked me which i would take,i chose m2, its fast fun and great on track and road, but as i need something bigger ill stick with my 340i tourer i love practical and great fun, well done mate keep it up and if your ever around Lincolnshire give me a shout, just to let you know my wife has been chosen for a new trail from the royal Marsden hospital, they have found a DNA marker in blood and can tell if its going to turn into cancer, so can treat it quicker, anyway sorry to go on but it’s amazing 🙏

Thank you for the video!!! Again well done! Thank you for the very detailed explanation of the speed limit warning stuff on the M2. Sadly will feel like an airplane pilot in the future to start up a car. One word to the manual gearbox you were talking about: I've been searching for a manual M2/M3 to test drive for months now. Eight official dealerships and one BMW group-owned dealership in my area don't have own cars or pool cars with a manual gearbox (no M2, no M3). Even after sending three emails to BMW, I haven't had any success. The experience here is even worse, with auto-generated replies that tell me I should go to a local dealership and that they do not print any info material anymore (which i haven’t even asked for). Currently, the car buying experience in Germany is not something I can recommend to someone else. At the moment, I have the impression that BMW doesn't want to sell cars with a manual gearbox (despite promoting it on RU-vid and even through their engineers). Maybe I'm just not the right type of customer, and BMW expects customers to spend 80,000€ or more without being able to test that type of gearbox. I don't know, but right now, I'm more than disappointed. Anyway, I just had to vent my frustration about this situation. Still, thank you very much for your videos and the podcast. Keep it up.

I passed my test like over a year ago and the car was new and had these safety bs that the instructor would turn off saying that nearly killed me😂

Great video Joe, really enjoyed this. I must say the new M2 has grown on me as I’ve seen a few on the road over the past few months. However, I do prefer the latest M240i in terms of overall athletics.

Great roads 😜

Great video Joe. Question for you: GTS 4.0 with a PDK or 992 911 GTS PDK with lightweight package, which would you take as a daily driver?

Love the looks of the M2…

Interesting and surprising that our 23 UK i4m50 doesn't have the warning bong or speed limiter challenges you mention. It does unfortunately try to steer where it wants but at least its saved in low setting. Just needs coded off, sure it's quite easy with software.

Great vid mate, all well explained. Annoying bongs! 🤦‍♂️ Still think I'd get the auto, the ZF8 is so good in the M3, and so versatile. The higher revs on the motorway is annoying too, although I do the Nurburgring run in my Honda 5 speed at 5k revs! 😭😂

Definitely the Lego car, I like that analogy.❤😂 lane departure pulls you into cyclists 🚴‍♀️ I have never seen such a dangerous device. This is an excellently detailed video on the car’s characteristics First class Joe..✅

The m240 is the first automatic I've owned. Also I noticed the offset seating immediately. Hated it. I solved two problems with one change. 1.I didn't know what to do with my left leg, all it did was sit around 2. The offset seating sucked Solution. I began braking with my left foot. That forces me to sit straight in the car and I don't feel like my left leg is gonna wilt walkway.

I'm guessing the US doesn't require those warnings. We have those same options in settings but if you turn them off they ALL stay off, including lane departure. That would drive me crazy 😆. I have my 23 G80 in Germany too, no issues.

Very informative review Joe - excellent and well done. As a G87 owner I would add the following: 1. Clicking “sport” on M-mode button also turns off a number of the bongs - I tend to press and hold “set” 2. I have the ZF auto and really love the very short gear ratios which you can flick through - love manuals as well but for me the shorter ratios and fast shifts actually make the car more enjoyable on UK roads. 3. I have the BMW starred Pirelli pzero corsa tyres and whilst they may be slightly stiffer I think they do manage to add more feeling back into the EPAS steering. Michelins are known to be great at objective markers but tend to suffer on subjective feel 4. I will be adding m-perf lowering springs soon so will be interesting to see if that makes much difference Cheers

At least you guys can disable the speed alert bongs, we in India don't have an option to disable that. It bongs for some time after 80 km/h and remains constant after 120km/h😞

best review on cars for a real driver I f4c#2 hate safety shit

How does a gear shift assistant work exactly? Does it essentially turn the manual gearbox into an automatic whevever you want? Or is it more like a motorcycle’s quick shifter? Where you can ignore the clutch completely? I’m learning more about cars so please excuse my lack of knowledge.

I have always loved the way BMWs look, even the New M3/M4s famous grill, I just think they got it right from day one. This thing however, well I really thought, my god BMW what have you done. I mean look at it. Having said that, after the 6 months or so of seeing them I have grown to absolutely love it, BMW are genius at that, their styling is so out there it does take a while to get it and then when you do, it's like wow, that is cool.

I wonder if the Bimmercode app works on this car, at least on my Mini GP, certain things like the fake exhaust sound and engine auto off can be disabled permanetely by using an ODB2 bluetooth adapter and bimmercode app. Hoping the same is the case with this M2 when it comes to permantely disabling the speed bongs and lane assists.

You know you're a manual guy Joe!

Great review Joe and like this car more I see it and even don’t mind it in red - @Volkswizard review of M2 vs RS3 demonstrates how unique this car is as a rwd manual inline 6

Can you reprogram the ecu or onboard systems in a way that all of those “safety features” stay off once you’ve turned them off? You know just like you can reprogram the car to deactivate auto start stop system etc

I must be the only one who loved this M2 when I first saw it 😂

Hi Joe, greetings from the USA. Solid review. Question: if I won the lottery tomorrow and could choose a manual transmission M2 or M4 as my daily, which would you recommend and why? Keep up a great work 👍🏼.

i’m hopeful when my mini countryman lease is up i’m getting this. my 6 yr old can fit in the back.

Love the Toronto red Wonder how it feels compared to e46 m3

Does the 2021-2022 M340i have the bongs and the lane departure assists? I was thinking of picking one up but I can't see myself turning it off every time I get in the car, I'd go insane.

I got one, it needs a short shifter. Perfect after that

Great video Joe! How would you compare this M2 to the GR Supra? Do you think they would come out with an xdrive model in the future? I currently daily my GR supra, have a few track days on it and have done some modifications to it. I'm coming up on 2 years owning the supra with 38,XXX mi/62.2 thousand km and I'm thinking of selling the gr supra for the g87 m2.

so as a road car is it as fun as the F87 comp? I had one and there was something about that car that made it loads of fun, does that something carry over into the G87?

@JoeAchilles1 great summary. As a daily car would You take it rather than m340d?

The worse front-end compared to the M3/M4 is probably down to the shorter wheelbase and the effect that has on weight distribution.

All these seem to need is spacers, lower ride height and a front splitter to set them off 👌

Great car, great video. They are overpriced and I think the c90 brand new ones on AutoTrader confirm this. BMW doing a price hike in Jan will just push customers further away. These cars can't keep going up!

How does this M2 compare to the Audi RS3 Saloon? Great video keep em coming.

If the shortcut tab would remain open instead of making you swipe down every single time you touch one function it would be almost as good as the physical shortcuts in the older BMWs

Do u have to switch off that speed limit warning every time you start the car?

Are these noises a UK thing? I have driving in so many BMWs in Germany and Austria and never had any audio bong besides seat belt and cold temps.

Wheel alignment could make the difference between the m2 vs m3/4.

2024 m2 or 2024 m3 x-drive?? What would you go with?

I was honestly thinking of buying an M2 but the BONGs would drive me insane.

Even tough G87 shares many components with G80/G82, I think for G87 the steering rack is changed? And maybe something else causing the differences as the G87 is a different car, even if it's on the same platform etc.

Have seen on some new BMWs that nudging the iDrive controller forward will bring up the shortcut menu - not sure about the M2. Handier than reaching for the screen. I have an early G82 M4 and following an OTA upgrade I can turn the safety suite off - not available any more. 😢😢

Thank god a manual is available .

Morning Joe What's the latest news on your M2 Competition? It's all gone very quiet.

So one question’which is the best m car you drove man :) please answer me(love your worrk,and support you till i no myself)

The most fun thing in the world is watching people who don't own a car talk bad about it😂 To me g87 is the best fun car.