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Originally Posted by AlpsRider
The M2 Competition was released with the S55 engine hastily because the N55 wasn't going to pass new emissions standards. I think the S55 was never meant to be in the lower priced M2. The M2 CS was probably supposed to get S55 in the M2 lineup exclusively. I remember before the price was released for the M2C people were thinking it would be over $70k, even high 70s. I think if the M2c had not been released with the S55 then there would be far less complaining about the M2 CS price. As it stands now, for people that are truly interested in the performance aspects of the car and not show-go, the M2C is the value pick and the M2 CS is the all out premium pick.
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See here for my (similar) take on it:
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Originally Posted by Artemis
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Originally Posted by omasou
If anyone knows for sure please correct me if wrong.
I'm beginning to think BMW had the entire F87 platform—M2, M2C and M2CS—planned prior to every releasing the M2 and the whole closed deck thing was a mistaken reference to the S55.
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Rumor has it (surfaced in January 2016) that an N55 M2 and S55 M2 were actually developed side-by-side, or at least within a small time window. The N55 M2 was supposed to be named "M2". And that happened. The S55 M2 was supposed to be called "M2 CS", due for release around 2018. And that did not happen: things took a turn in 2018 because of EU emissions homologation requirements taking force in September 2018 in Europe. Result: exit the N55 M2 and rebaptizing the S55 M2 as "M2 Competition". During the Summer of 2018: exit + enter. In VIN decoders exactly the same pre-production S55 M2 got labelled "M2 CS" and at some other point in time "M2 Competition". We may reasonably assume that the S55 M2 (temporary dubbed "M2 CS") that turned "M2 Competition", was not supposed to be sold at near-base-M2 price. But the problem was that there was no entry-level BMW M car anymore with the N55 M2 being retired. So the M2 Competition unexpectedly 'dropped' into the entry-level BMW M car position, with an attractive price. That's also why the M2 Competition will continue to be regarded as excellent value for money. Also from a price perspective, the M2 Competition stole the 450hp 2020 M2 CS thunder: if the M2 Competition would have been priced somewhere in the middle between base M2 price and base M4 price, the 2020 M2 CS price would be a little less hard to stomach.
Though this rumor has never been confirmed, M2 Competition owners may occasionally come across car parts featuring "M2 CS" stamped on it. |