2023 BMW M2 walkaround review (including cold start and rev)

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If you're a fane of colossally quick small cars - the 2023 BMW M2 will be right up your alley! Paul Maric gives you a quick walkaround review of the new BMW M2 including a cold start and rev.  More BMW content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/bmw More BMW M2 content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/bmw/m2  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Exterior 0:35 Engine 4:04 Interior 5:09 Verdict 7:36  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #bmw #m2 #bmwm

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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. This is the BMW M2. I wanted to take you on a quick walk around of this today.

00:04 We're not going to be doing any driving, but we'll give you a bit of an idea of what you can come to

00:09 expect when this launches in Australia around April this year with a starting price of just under

00:14 $120,000. Now, today it's all just going to be about the walk around, but if you do want to skip

00:19 ahead to other parts of this video, you can use the time codes on the screen, or if you're on

00:22 YouTube, you can scroll down and use the chapters below. And if you haven't done so already,

00:26 subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon. That way you can find out every single time we do

00:30 one of these videos. But let's get started with our M2 walk around. So let's start with exterior

00:36 design. You've got five external colors to pick from. This particular color here is called Zandvoort

00:41 Blue. Kind of looks like the blue that Hyundai has on their N cars, and that hasn't really dated

00:47 that well. But look, this does look okay, person. I guess the design of this was a little bit

00:51 controversial when they leaked the pictures. Everyone was like, "Oh my God, is that really

00:54 the M2?" Yes, it is. But here in person, it actually has some pretty cool proportions,

00:59 because this is bigger, wider, lower than the outgoing M2, so it really has quite a stance,

01:05 and it just, it looks way bigger than what the M2 used to look like. The M2 used to be this tiny

01:09 little thing. This is now a much bigger vehicle. So, a little bonnet hump there to contain the

01:14 engine, and this big grill up the top and down the bottom there as well. I even love down the bottom

01:19 here. Instead of that just being the floor of the bottom of the car, you actually have another

01:23 cooling element there too. So, they really have gone to town on cooling this engine as much as

01:27 humanly possible. This is virtually an engine that has come straight out of the M3 and the M4, so it

01:32 is a big old thing, and it comes with a lot of power and torque, which I'll run through in just

01:37 a second. Here for Australia, if you order this up to a certain cut-off point and check with your

01:40 dealer when that is, you'll actually get the BMW 50 years badge there as well, instead of just the

01:45 standard BMW badge, which I think is cool. M2 down the front there. In terms of the headlight, you

01:49 get full LED headlights here with an LED daytime running light as well. We'll bring it to the side

01:54 here and let's have a look at these wheels. So, they're a staggered design, so 19 inches up the

01:59 front, 20 inches at the rear. Hidden beneath there is a whopper set of steel brakes, so 380mm

02:05 cross-drilled. You have a six-piston caliper up the front there, single-piston caliper at the rear

02:10 on a 370mm rotor. Like that design as well, so you get a piano black finish there. There is one other

02:15 wheel design available as well, another BMW 50 years badge there too. Jump up the top here, love

02:22 this design as well of the wing mirror. So, typical M design, you have that little cut-through there

02:26 for aero indicator built into that wing mirror. This is the first time that M2 gets a carbon roof,

02:32 so that lowers the centre of gravity and also reduces the weight ever so slightly as well.

02:37 Have a look at this at the back. That wheel arch protrudes so much, and if you look at it

02:42 straight down the line of the front there, front is wide as well, the back just has some absolute

02:47 hips to it, which is really cool. So, whip around to the back here, I'll show you what this looks

02:50 like. Now, around the back here, oh by the way, we did a walk-around of the BMW XM as well, so if

02:55 you want to watch that video, go to the description below for the link. So, up the top here, you have

02:59 a pretty subtle-looking boot lip spoiler. I do hope that when the M parts roll around, you'll be

03:04 able to get some enormous spoiler here, and maybe some enormous exhaust pipes, similar to what we

03:09 had in the M4 competition when we reviewed that recently. You can watch that video by clicking up

03:14 there. So, another BMW 50 years logo up the top there, M2. Have a look at these exhaust pipes. So,

03:19 they're lifted from the M3 and the M4 as well, 100mm in diameter. They are absolutely enormous.

03:24 You get a piano black diffuser down here as well. Really is quite a meaty look at the rear here,

03:30 these vertical slats that integrate parking sensors in there as well. So, let me know what

03:34 you reckon about the design in the comments section below. I know I'm telling you that it

03:37 looks good here in person, but do you think that it actually looks good? Have you seen one in person?

03:42 Let me know what you reckon down there. Oh, and by the way, do you want to hear what this sounds

03:45 like when it's revving? Here is a little clip that I took on my phone when we were shifting the car.

04:04 Okay, let's talk engines. Probably one of my favourite engines out there,

04:07 but 3.0-litre twin-turbocharged six-cylinder petrol engine. Look at that. Love these braces

04:14 as well. It is some absolute meat there, and there is a reason for that. If you go for the

04:18 carbon experience, which I'll show you once we're inside the car, this has its speed lifted from 250

04:23 to 285 kilometres an hour, so you need to keep some of that restraint. I don't know how you

04:30 actually lift the engine cover off though with that brace in place. There must be some magic

04:35 wizardry to be able to do that, but yeah, in terms of power and torque, a little under 350 kilowatts

04:40 of power, 550 newton metres of torque, and you can get this with either a six-speed manual or an

04:45 eight-speed automatic transmission. Both of those go to the rear wheels. The auto is also a no-cost

04:50 option as well, so kind of seems like a no-brainer. In terms of zero to 100, it is slightly quicker

04:56 with the auto, it's just over four seconds and about 0.2 seconds slower with the manual as well,

05:00 which is still pretty impressive. You're still getting about as much acceleration even if you do

05:04 opt for three pedals as well. Let's jump inside the cabin, I'll show you what it all looks like.

05:09 So we're inside the cabin. I think this kind of suits me. Anyway, so you have a curved display

05:15 up the top there. Now this is going to keep switching off because the battery is pretty

05:18 much dead on this car, it's a pre-production car, but the curved display has a 15-inch screen over

05:24 on the left. It is a colour touchscreen, so you can control it with your finger or alternatively

05:29 you can use the iDrive controller down the bottom here, and then ahead of the driver here you have

05:33 a screen that's just over 12 inches in size. M2 now has head-up display as well, yay, to the owners

05:38 that were always complaining about that. Look at this, love this gear stick, in fact just the shift

05:43 is so nice. Cannot wait to take this for a drive, it feels really cool. So six-speed manual there

05:48 with reverse off to the side. A little bit of carbon around the edge here. So I mentioned before

05:52 the M Carbon Experience, so that's what's fitted to this car, it's about $15,000. So that gives you

05:58 these bucket seats with the carbon fibre around the edges there. Have a look at this as well,

06:02 so I have removed this, basically the headrest comes out, and the whole purpose of that is if

06:07 you're driving with a helmet, it gives your helmet a spot to nestle into and it means you're not

06:11 resting your head forward like that, and all you use is a couple of little hex screws and it comes

06:16 out. So really great idea, and then you have these slots here as well, if you do decide to fit a roll

06:20 cage to the car, you can actually just feed seat belts through there as well if you have something

06:24 like a four-point harness. So it is configured as a track day weapon and this is the type of stuff

06:29 that BMW really does think about when it comes to service its clients. So other cool features here,

06:35 more carbon along the top there. I really do like this display in addition to the M buttons here you

06:41 have on the steering wheel. You can also then use things like the drift analyser and variable

06:45 traction control, and we actually demonstrated this when we shot our M4 competition video when

06:50 it was wet, so make sure you check that out because that was so much fun, and the fact that

06:54 you can do all of that here with the car, I think is pretty unreal there in terms of that technology

06:58 package. Outside of that, it feels just like any other 2 Series, which I think is a good thing,

07:03 and this technology really brings it into the modern age, especially for the price that you're

07:07 paying for this. Priced at just under the entry level of a Porsche Cayman, and that is quite some

07:14 car you're going to be able to get there, but keep in mind with Porsche you've got to spend

07:16 bucket loads of money on options to actually make it feel like a civilised vehicle. You do have back

07:21 seats there, the wheelbase has been extended a little bit. This is what it looks like when I'm

07:25 sitting in the back there. The room is actually far better than I thought it would be, and I think

07:30 it is robbed just a little bit because of those seats. So if you do plan on carrying people in

07:33 the back there, probably don't go for the carbon seats. So anyway, that has been a really quick

07:38 look and a walk around here of the new BMW M2. It's going to be launching in Australia around

07:43 April with a starting price of just under $120,000. I am very, very keen to take this for a bit of a

07:51 spin and see exactly what it feels like behind the wheels. So if you did enjoy this video,

07:55 please make sure you like it and you share it with your mates, and let me know in the comments

07:58 section below, what do you reckon about the M2? Have they done enough here to make it special

08:02 enough for the price tag? I'm very keen for your feedback. Do you own an M2 now? Are you going to

08:06 be upgrading to this? Let me know what you reckon down there in the comments section below, and if

08:10 you haven't done so already, subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon as well. But

08:13 until next time, take it easy.

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