641bhp BMW M2 review. With 40% more power, this Litchfield M2 is wild.. 

Especially true on wheels you want to run with all season tires all year round. Took me a while to find front polished black wheels with a "winter ready" rating from the manufacturer that I would like. All black wheels only work if the rest of the car is also blacked out completely imho.

Agreed. Black wheels on all the G8X cars are not the best choice.

Black wheels work great with certain colors.

The same is true for our demographics🤨

Black wheels are the worst trend ever happened to the car industry. They're not "sporty", they're not "racing", they do not "work on certain cars". They're just preferred by owners so they don't have to clean them anymore. What's the point of an expensive wheel design when it disappears in a massive black hole on the side. It just makes every car sad and unoriginal, just as most so called motorists nowadays.

Because Harry is a different kind of reviewers compared to Chris Harris.

Amen to that!! Cant really stand looking at black wheels anymore. They don't do anything at all to show off the design.

Just had mine redone to silver on my W212 Wagon. Looks better and will last longer but I do miss the Matchbox Car look.

No just no . So dated

I like it black as well

True

Until one day after you have cleaned it 😂

The purple looks best imho

yup😊

The fact that you have to disguise it in black really speaks volumes about the look of a car...

I'll have to be financially stable in every sense before purchasing my first supercar. The best thing to do with your money is to invest rightly because money left saving will end up with no returns.

No doubt being financially free cannot be overemphasized, making smart plans and setting up diversified investment portfolios is quite essential.

The best advice that i learned from Manny Koshbin is don't buy a Super or Hyper car until you have 10 times the price of it in your Bank account, when you purchase a Super car you add a car to your garage but u add also maintenance and unexpected damages that can happen in future

If you got 10x the price sitting in your bank account... you already making bad financial decision.

You need to get a financial planner to aid diversify your portfolio to commodities index funds, digital assets etc, to provide illumination and guidance in the financial markets.

Agree - since he drove the F87 M2 when he had an even bigger smile :)

It's wonderful. To see him so happy

Because it hides the careLESS work of the designer.

Exactly 😂​@@EvoraGT430

That just shows, Frank Stephenson knows exactly what he is talking about. I think that lovely darkish purple colour BMW do, would be another good colour for this M2. Although. I'm not sure if its even offered on the M2?

Yes it’s the opposite, black hides all the awful front and back ugly clumsy body kit, !!!

What has happened to BMW styling department, they seem intent on making very ugly cars, which just jar with any view, grills are massive on some this has ugly what looks like the 80’s after market body kits, (cheap ones!!!),the first generation M2 competition with its wide track and beautiful rear arches was stunning, I never heard a bad review of its looks, or performance, a true classic, this certainly has a lot going for it, but I couldn’t live with the looks., great review clearly shows Harry enjoying it.

I've found it really good to use, albeit, in an IX rather than the M2. It's better than what VW / Audi are shoving out currently.

​@@SecksJayyou bought an ix, that's inexcusable

Exactly.

@@Matthew-ll9ke It's a very nice place to be, plus you don't have to look at the front of it from inside.

@@SecksJay a range rover is a splendid place to be, yet doesn't look utterly hideous from inside and out

there are cars for drivers and cars for posers; each and one of us knows who's who.

Agreed on the weight, but they both sound terrible.

Literally the only thing I’d take from the F87 is the exterior looks. Interior, engine, chassis, etc I would take the G87.

The first thing any modern BMW needs is built correctly.

@mountjoy23 yeah , doesn't sound the best. Can be fixed with Equal length downpipes. Totally transforms the sound. If you haven't heard, check it out on RU-vid 😍

@joetacchino4470 fair enough. I respect your opinion. I'm a "modder" so for me I think I can make a significantly better car for significantly less money with the F87. Also, doing all the track days I do / want to do (time limited) - tracking a £40k F87 (with mods) is much less financial risk than a £70k G87 stock. Plus warranty etc.

Gotta squint really really hard

​@ronin84 I've squinted so hard and not even my mind's eye can see it.

Yeah if you squint so hard that you close your eyes and imagine a BSM E46 M3

Squint & turn around maybe

I have to squint looking at most BMWs or my eyes catch fire.

Proper old school magic back again!

@@moinhaider1496 Yeh. Finally a tasty piece of kit to want, all this later stuff no horn appeal

@zzhughesd reminds me of the 1M 🙂

Old school as in British Leyland? because thats about accurate to describe the built quality and robustness on these. My Neighbours has had a new engine under warranty the first one ingested its own oil filer and had coolant smell from the exhausts from new. New front discs and pads as they got warped immediately, the second set got warped within a month they are wanting him to foot the bill for them now. The gearbox became noisy after the engine replacment and has got worse they have no idea what the noise is. Some of the interior got slapped off when his dog was in it wagging its tail and the thing makes loud crackilng and popping noises in his garage after hes used it and BMW said "thats normal but if you smell anything let us know" I mean my British Leyland comparison is 100% justified i feel.

@@bigduphusaj162 yup. Good old BL engineering. Born 77 sadly I didn’t get to see the crap ness. I know Mini Metro wings rusted through before 12 months old !!! Lovely

I have an lcd screen in my 2020 C63. It looks great and works perfectly with a range of information displayed just as you’d like it. The current BMW setup is nowhere near as good though.

I have a BMW with that dashboard, it's great!

@@AlfaGTA156 Huh? As someone who owns a Z4M and an i4, the "ipad" that you refer to is far superior for a daily car.

​@@AlfaGTA156 Oh yeah coming from the guy who owns a car from the company that can't figure out a limited slip differential.

Dystopian looking display. Awful and cheap.

Thank you BMW for also still offering manual gearboxes and rear wheel drive. This car is insane in a good way. So all Litchfield did for the engine was advanced chip and exhaust? I wonder how the reliability will be after boosting the engine 180 bhp?

Agreed, I wish they would go back to nice round headlights of old. I do quite like bits of this model, but the old 3 series E43 is still a much better looking car, I think. The IX has to be one of the ugliest vehicles known to man; that thing has been styled by a 2 year old and an old cornflakes box.

best in black by a mile

Im not sure see my neighbours is as chocolate as it gets its abysmally unrobust

The Devil will buy a snow shovel before i buy an EV.......

F EV's

It’s definitely faster on track out the box however I’d still take an F

It looks like an F87 that's been crashed heavily, then rebuilt from memory with playdough.

BMW has completely lost the plot. Their cars can only be described as hideous.

Vous êtes lourd avec votre passé

Engineering side? all German performance cars are an R35 copy & Paste now even the rear hookers. No joke mate a DSG gearbox is 1970s tractor tech tractors now have 50+ gear 6 clutch powershift boxes😂 What engineering are you meaning because all i see is a copy & paste parts bin car with the reliability and build quality of a British Leyland car from the 80s. How do i know that? well my neigbours is on its second engine already, the gearbox is about needing warrantied and hes having to pay for the front brakes now because the first set got warped immediately and done under warranty and within a month the replacements were warped. His dogs tail wiped out half the interior one time and it makes noises like a frying pan in his garage after hes used it and BMW dealer that sold him it their advice was "if it starts to smell then dont drive it let us know" Thats some real good engineering mate that

​@@AB-80XI dont even think this one looks that bad it looks a bit boxy and odd like a new Defender in the flesh but its not completely hideous. What is hideous is the build quality and its robustness. These things might aswell be made by a team up job between Fisher Price and 1980s British Leyland. As a spray painter turned coach/ boat builder the orange peel needs seen to be believed.

I reckon the clutch and other parts of the transmission will be in for a hard time. Maybe the clutch is uprated, at least with stronger springs?

see my other comments on here. They are as chocolate as it gets.

I think he does it in most videos 😂

BMW electronic gremlins I'm sure! 😀

Can’t have plod 👀 at the speedo can we 🤣🤣🤣

That is a beast of a car. I love the sound of it when accelerating.

😂

dont let your dog neae it or its tail will slap the interior apart. Dont ask

Modern cars are like handbags these days. Form over function.

True about the exterior but that's not much of a comparison 😀

100% agree

Yep wheels are the jewellery on a car. You wouldn’t give someone a necklace made of coal.

It’s always puzzled me why black wheels are so popular, I’m looking at a 911 GTS and black is standard, so would have to get them painted or changed for a silver wheel.

Black wheels are hydrodip “carbon”adjacent and just around the corner from “4d” numberplates

I tend to agree, although Harry's diplomatic comment on the colour does disguise its 'beaten by the ugly stick' looks.

The engine doesnt last stock nevermind the geaebox mate. One of the worst made cars there is

@@bigduphusaj162absolutely rubbish statement too make

U are alone. The m2 before was lovely to look at.

You're definitely not alone I'm with you on this, I find the looks especially in darker colours unbelievably aggressive and well proportioned, when you're standing in front of it it's even more impressive. Really don't get the hate.

I like it too.

I agree with you. It's a good design imo

Personally I don’t like it, but I can see why people do if that makes sense? Certainly looks better in black than blue for me

Tyre bill must be frightening too!

@@davidoldridge3138 335bhp in my 2 series is hopeless in the wet but is not bad on tyres

Yep. Cramming extra horses under the bonnet to overcome techno-obesity just creates another ghastly brain-dead muscle-car. No amount of power can compensate for excess mass. Electric everything? Ridiculous. Fat is fat. Brakes can only stop so much. Vast power, multiple 'driving mode' settings, trick dampers and computerised suspension won't make for B-road brilliance because... physics. Less is more.

@@EleanorPeterson Electric cars are boring anyway. Yeah 0-60 quick bla bla bla. No driver connection, heavy, silent. Like the worst of all kinds for a carguy. This M2 is a good car, but its just too heavy.

Current Mercedes range looks too round imo

Yeah, it looks worse. 🤦 Who would paint a car black, it lacks any detail.

@@mayamanign the detail needs to be hidden on this car

This Bring back analogs Ipads are just so lazy and boring

Totally agree. Sloppy and ruins all new BMWs for me!

Yeh but iPads are really cheap for the manufacturers and make them loadsa money!​@@AB-fr2ei

You soon get use to it and it’s great for Waze..tick the tech pack and get the HUD then you never need to look at it..

@@steviec1871 why the heck do you need some stupid nav when you got a manual gearbox and a straight six under the bonnet. Use the eyes to look on the road and have fun instead. Stupid screens