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BMW'S 50th Birthday anniversary M gift might be this "Project Katharina" BMW iM2
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Honestly as long as a g87 s58 powered m2 also comes out I see this as a total win. As long as the price isn't crazy it will be interesting too see a full fledged electric sports car.
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The real question is does it make 21 jigga
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Did they get the idea this fan concept car in 2017?
https://drivetribe.com/p/bmw-im2-con...TOiW9cw5YATfuA |
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iM2 'Concept' revealed
Wasn't sure where to post this and hope I haven't duplicated another thread, but spotted this today on the Car magazine website:
BMW iM2: M division goes electric for its 50th birthday in 2022 https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/spy-shots/bmw/im2/ These 'concept' photos seem to be in line with the 'spy shots' and video of the G42. |
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It would be a great idea , with the 50th anniversary of BMWs first electric vehicle the 02 !
An orange iM2
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100000% with you on this
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Because Katharina is not a person but a project. A project that at a glance looks like the BMW M2 CS. Except from behind, where that car's four trademark exhaust pipes are conspicuous by their absence. Close your eyes, listen, and another point of difference becomes clear – Katharina's high-pitched soundtrack is a far cry from the growling, multi-cylinder racket with which M cars are synonymous. This M2 sounds like absolutely nothing else, which is perfectly okay, because there is no other car like it. Next year, M division will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Such an occasion warrants a pretty special birthday present. You guessed it: the car expected to roll out of the cake and blow out the candles with plenty of brouhaha is Project Katharina – a very special electric M2. At this point in time it's based on the M2 CS. But come 2022 the new rear-wheel-drive G42 2-series will make a much better fit, even though an M version of that car won't surface before 2023. In the unlikely scenario of the M development team having to step back from the 2-series, the monstrous DNA of Katharina the Great could be transferred easily, and at short notice, to the M3 or M4. And what a monster this is! One megawatt of raw power – that's 1000kW, or 1321bhp. Think about that for a moment. This awesome kraftwerk consists of four electric motors, one per wheel. Together they offer a radically advanced level of torque vectoring hitherto available only to the cars you see in cartoons. This constantly variable, four-figure, on-demand punch is supported by the most extreme battery technology conceived to date at the group's future- energy campus on the outskirts of Munich." "Although this is all still top-secret stuff, reliable sources claim Katharina has already lapped the Nordschleife in under seven minutes, besting the hardly underpowered M8 Competition by more than 40 seconds and putting the electric M2 in Porsche Taycan Turbo S territory. We don't yet know how many laps the future uber-BMW can run before being black-flagged by excessive tyre wear, cooling issues or a fast-receding state of charge. But in a way that's immaterial, because the key mission of this advanced M2 is to confirm that emissions-free high performance and M-level handling can go hand in hand. Acceleration from a standing start is expected to split the 2.0 to 2.5sec bracket. At least as impressive is the brutal throttle response at speed, when wheelspin can be induced in the dry even above 75mph, sources say. So far, Katharina is a work in progress and not yet an approved programme. But according to information gathered from an English powertrain specialist involved in the R&D work, a run of stripped-out and relatively ascetic (no rear seats; carbonfibre panels and roof; hollow-spoke mag wheels; thin-walled glass) limited-edition specials is very much on the cards. Watch this space. And start saving." |
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Damn.....I may have to get one of these....
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