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Originally Posted by ///MFrankie
It really is an odd debate, but the elitism of humans never ceases to make me chuckle. The N55 is what? 80% parts from the S55? The M2 in general shares almost everything that matters with the M3/4, they are closer than people realize.
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The thing to understand about this debate is that it has no answer.
BMW calls the M2 an M car, and therefore it is.
However, all previous M cars (except the 1M IIRC) were geared towards competition, and had an "S" designation in the engine code.
Without the Comp there would have been little to no debate about this, and all the finger pointing would have been done from OG M2 owners towards the M235i owners, but giving the Comp an S code, and all of the competition upgrades means it will always be seen as the true M2 by M guys.
I think BMW have changed their mind about what an M car is. So many more M cars have been used for back-road blasting and casual HPDE's than real racing that M has an identity crisis.