Already the archetype of driving pleasure for the purist, the 2025 BMW M2 raises the bar for compact high-performance sports activities automobiles within the premium phase. The brand new BMW M2 provides extra energy, larger visible impression, and progressive gear and digital options. Entrance and middle of this recent spherical of updates is the 20 hp added to its output: the high-revving inline 6-cylinder in-line engine with M TwinPower Turbo expertise now tops out at 473 hp. There are new design accents for the outside and inside, a broadened exterior colour vary, and the introduction of BMW Working System 8.5 to assist the most recent technology of BMW iDrive.
The 2025 BMW M2 takes the traditional driver’s automobile idea of a straight-six engine, 6-speed handbook gearbox, and rear-wheel-drive – a novel proposition amongst its rivals – to a brand new stage of evolution. Together with its compact dimensions, chassis expertise tuned completely for each on a regular basis driving and observe use, and a state-of-the-art working system that permits personalization of a variety of auto features, this makes the brand new M2 ideally outfitted to write down the following chapter within the BMW M model’s historical past of success on this phase.
M TwinPower Turbo inline 6-cylinder engine with further output and torque.
In addition to the ability itself, the inimitable manner during which the 6-cylinder engine delivers that energy additionally performs a key function within the efficiency expertise supplied by the brand new BMW M2. The upgraded model of the engine preserves the linear energy supply, sustained into the higher reaches of the rev vary, that’s such a trademark characteristic of M fashions. Its most torque is on faucet throughout a large rev band.
With the usual 6-speed handbook gearbox, peak torque stays 406 lb-ft between 2,650 and 6,130 rpm. When energy is channelled by way of the 8-speed M Steptronic transmission (a no-cost choice), the determine rises to 443 lb-ft between 2,700 and 5,620 rpm. The engine produces its elevated most output of 473 hp at 6,250 rpm, with revs topping out at 7,200 rpm.
To assist the motive force in getting probably the most out of the newfound energy, advances have been made with the accelerator mapping and response in all of the drive modes selectable by way of the M Setup menu. Consequently, the brand new BMW M2 gives noticeably extra fast reactions to the motive force’s requests for acceleration – each when specified with both the 8-speed M Steptronic transmission or the 6-speed handbook gearbox.
Motorsport experience elevates on a regular basis efficiency.
Together with a pair of mono-scroll turbochargers, an oblique intercooler, and an electronically managed wastegate, the M TwinPower Turbo expertise of the straight-six engine consists of Excessive Precision Injection, VALVETRONIC variable valve timing, and Double-VANOS totally variable camshaft timing. The engine additionally has an array of particulars borrowed straight from motorsport design, leading to its lightning-fast response, urge for food for revs, and constant functionality in observe use. These particulars embody a particularly inflexible crankcase with a sleeve-free, closed-deck building, a cast crankshaft with light-weight design, cylinder bores with a wire-arc sprayed iron coating, and a 3D-printed core for the cylinder head.
The M-specific cooling system ensures the powertrain elements keep an optimum working temperature even underneath heavy hundreds. The oil circuit can also be designed to deal with extraordinarily dynamic driving conditions. A map-controlled oil pump ensures dependable oil provide underneath excessive longitudinal and lateral acceleration.
The Drivelogic button built-in into the selector lever for the 8-speed M Steptronic transmission makes it doable to change the shift traits, with a selection of three clearly distinguishable settings. Each the selector lever within the newest M design and the gearshift paddles on the steering wheel allow handbook gear choice at any time.
Drivers craving a extra direct interplay with the powertrain can specify the 6-speed handbook gearbox. The handbook options the Gear Shift Assistant, which makes use of rev-matching management to make sure slip-free operation when downshifting.
With the elevated output, the handbook M2 shaves 0.1s off its 0-60 mph time, finishing the journey in simply 4.1 seconds. The M Steptronic transmission cuts that point to three.9 seconds. Prime velocity is electronically restricted to 155 mph, or 177 mph with the non-obligatory M Driver’s Bundle. The dynamic energy supply is accompanied by a stirring refrain from the M-specific exhaust system with electrically managed flaps.
Expanded vary of exterior paint finishes, recent exterior particulars, new-look alloy wheels.
For 2025, prospects can get their new BMW M2 in a selection of three stable colours, 7 metallic shades, and 4 BMW Particular person paint finishes. The expanded vary now gives Sao Paulo Yellow, Vegas Purple metallic, Portimao Blue metallic, Skyscraper Gray metallic, Frozen Pure Gray metallic, and Frozen Portimao Blue II metallic. BMW Particular person paint finishes embody Java Inexperienced metallic, Voodoo Blue, Grigio Telesto Pearl Impact metallic and Twilight Purple Pearl Impact metallic.
The brand new BMW M2 is fitted normal with M alloy wheels Type 930M in a double-spoke design with a Jet Black end, 19-inch on the entrance and 20-inch on the rear. These similar wheels are additionally accessible in a bi-color end or, new for 2025, a shiny silver end.
The signature M quad tailpipes are actually completed in black as normal. The mannequin designation badges on the trunk lid and grille are actually black, bordered in sliver.
New steering wheels and seat surfaces, M Carbon bucket seats now accessible as a person choice.
A very powerful interface between driver and automobile, the steering wheel, has been newly designed, bringing a recent look to the inside of the 2025 BMW M2. The usual-fitted M leather-based steering wheel now has a flat-bottomed rim and a brand new design for the spokes. A pink middle marker within the 12 o’clock place, gearshift paddles, and the 2 M buttons for choosing individually configured automobile setups underscore the track-ready really feel. An M Alcantara steering wheel is now additionally accessible as an choice in the identical design. A heating perform is obtainable as an choice for each steering wheel designs.
The M Sport seats in Vernasca leather-based can now be ordered in Black with a Purple spotlight. Additionally, the weight-saving M Carbon bucket seats for the brand new BMW M2 are actually accessible as a standalone choice in addition to a part of the non-obligatory Carbon Bundle. With surfaces in Merino leather-based, electrical adjustment and heating, detachable head restraints, and facility for including a multi-point harness, they optimize each all-day consolation and assist throughout sporty driving.
BMW Working System 8.5, digital management for the local weather features.
The M-specific content material within the BMW Curved Show and non-obligatory BMW Head-Up Show enhances the cockpit’s tech-forward sports activities automobile aura. The totally digital display screen grouping, made up of a 12.3-inch data show and a 14.9-inch management show, now supplies the stage for the most recent evolution of the BMW iDrive system based mostly on BMW OS 8.5. The features of the local weather management system are actually additionally operated digitally. The temperature and air flow settings in addition to the seat heating and – if specified – steering wheel heating within the new BMW M2 could be managed both by contact utilizing a particular menu choice within the decrease space of the management show or by voice command with the assistance of the BMW Clever Private Assistant.
This broad adoption of digitalization results in an additional discount within the variety of buttons and controls within the cockpit and is accompanied by a redesign of the instrument panel. New adjustment controls for the air vent grilles within the middle of the instrument panel and on the motive force’s and entrance passenger facet of the cockpit enable the airflow route to be adjusted utilizing rotating and tilting actions.
The inside trim parts on the instrument panel and middle console of the brand new BMW M2 come as normal in new M Nice Brushed Aluminium. Inside finishes in Aluminium Rhombicle Anthracite, M Carbon Fiber can be found as choices.
M-specific working idea, in depth normal gear.
On the coronary heart of the M-specific working idea is the Setup button on the middle console. This supplies direct entry to the settings choices for the engine, the usual adaptive M suspension, the M Servotronic steering, the built-in braking system working at the side of the M Compound brakes, and the M Traction Management perform, which permits drivers to set particular person intervention thresholds for wheel slip limitation. The 6-speed’s Gear Shift Assistant can also be activated and deactivated by way of the M Setup menu.
Normal gear for the brand new BMW M2 additionally consists of three-zone automated local weather management, ambient lighting, a Harman Kardon encompass sound system, and the BMW Dwell Cockpit Plus with BMW Maps navigation system. The usual smartphone integration allows use of Apple CarPlay® and Android Auto™. Among the many non-obligatory objects accessible are Energetic Cruise Management with Cease&Go perform and the Parking Assistant with Reversing Assistant.
Additionally on the choices record is the BMW Dwell Cockpit Skilled within the new BMW M2 now additionally consists of Augmented View on the management show. This dietary supplements the navigation system’s map show by displaying a dwell video stream of the motive force’s view on the knowledge show or management show and augmenting it with contextual real-time data. At complicated junctions, as an illustration, an animated directional arrow is built-in into the video picture to assist the motive force take the perfect turn-off for the deliberate route.
—Pricing for the 2025 BMW M2 begins at $66,075, which is $1,880 greater than the 2024 mannequin. But it surely’s a small value to pay for the additional horsepower and enhancements. The brand new BMW M2 might be constructed alongside the brand new BMW 2 Sequence Coupe at BMW Group Plant San Luis Potosí in Mexico, and it is going to be launched worldwide with a manufacturing phase-in from August 2024.
