The car ladder?

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mattyprice4004 said:

Ah yes, the inevitable thread explosion when MSE meets a car enthusiast who doesn't want to 'go as fast as they can for £2k'. 
Honestly OP, I think PistonHeads would be a better place to post this - it's full of well-off people trying to get the most bang for their buck. 

All you'll tend to find here is the 'leasing is a scam', 'all garages are a rip off (Hi Fred!) and 'why would you want a fast car, you can only do 70 anyway' people.  

Come say hello on PH, you won't be disappointed. 

We're all about bangernomics and family value cars here.

Seriously, if the OP was looking for the best current deal on a new M2C/car or choice then someone might have been able to help him, but it just seems he wants validation that blowing £30K a year on monthly payments is the norm.

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I am considerably richer than yoaaaaaaah...

Scrapit

Deleted_User said:

I am considerably richer than yoaaaaaaah...

It did have the faint odour of a humble brag but some are more impressed/outraged than others. A m2 doesn't interest me in the sloghtes, far too small but horses for courses.

motorguy

Scrapit said:

Deleted_User said:

I am considerably richer than yoaaaaaaah...

It did have the faint odour of a humble brag but some are more impressed/outraged than others. A m2 doesn't interest me in the sloghtes, far too small but horses for courses.

Funnily its the size that would make it appeal to us.  My wife doesnt like a big car (previous cars 370Z GT, Z4, Z4 3.0Si Coupe) so its size would suit better than (a not much more expensive M4).  We need a 5 door though as our main car so that kicks it in the head.

The_Rainmaker

fred246 said:

adamjpl said:

 passion for things that go fast and pop and bang.

I remember seeing the corpse of a teenager whose sports car had left the road and hit a large solid tree. It turned out he had a mega rich father who had paid for the car and more importantly the astronomical insurance premium. Very sad to see but it makes you wonder how large insurance premiums add to safety for young drivers. I was reminded when the OP said he likes to hear the bang from the car. Was that the sort of bang you are thinking of?

You really are a misery.  

fred246

Good drivers. Fast cars. All dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driver_deaths_in_motorsport
Seriously though in M2C the C stands for 'Competition'. I would rather the OP drive these cars on a track rather than the road. It's safer for him and the rest of us. The insurance for these is sky high. It's not because the cars expensive. It's because they put people in wheelchairs for the rest of their lives. Deaths are normally cheaper.

AdrianC

fred246 said:

Seriously though in M2C the C stands for 'Competition'.

And the M is for BMW's Motorsport division. That doesn't mean it actually is a competition car, y'know.

https://www.evo.co.uk/bmw/m2-coupe/21561/bmw-m2-competition-2020-review-the-m2-raises-its-game-in-real-style
It's just the name they gave to the tweaked version when they facelifted it. 10% more power from a different engine (almost certainly the change is primarily driven by emissions), and a couple of other minor tweaks.

And thus they sucker the gullible in to "must upgrade".

Sure, you could use it on trackdays. Or you could take a £1k 20yo 206GTi on the exact same track days, have a lot more fun, worry a hell of a lot less, and learn a lot more about how a car actually behaves near the limit.

Cars like this aren't about actually using the performance. You can't. Nobody can on the road, and very very few can even on track. They're about posing.

fred246

So I am supposed to be impressed if I see one? But I wouldn't know what it was. There's so many that look like that now. I always remember sitting in a group of work colleagues. One of them said to me "you know my car?" I had no idea what he drove but I assumed he would have a car. "Er no, I guess you probably have one". So he asked everyone else. No-one knew what he drove. Turned out he had a £100K Mercedes. It was embarrassing because he obviously thought everyone would be impressed by his car but nobody had any interest. I guess you have to be interested to be impressed.

AdrianC

fred246 said:

So I am supposed to be impressed if I see one? But I wouldn't know what it was. There's so many that look like that now.

Ah, bless... I bet you don't even see the inherent contradiction there, do you?

fred246

Obviously I have now googled M2C. Loads of BMWs look like that.