BMW is crafting a 'street legal track day pack' for the bombastic little M2
Swan neck rear wing and more aggressive front lip? Yes please
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Hot on the heels of the fighty M2 CS is this new road-legal 'track pack' upgrade for Bimmer's baby M car, arriving next year with a feisty new attitude.
It's been developed by the M Performance Parts team - most likely for the standard M2 - and the most obvious change is the angled swan neck rear wing and front splitter extension. There's a red tow hook thrown in too, because… track pack.
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Essentially, everything that's been covered up by that black and white prototype livery looks to have been tweaked in some form, likely for more aero, def for more aggression. And how cool are those new wheels? Very, is the answer.
No word on any additional oomph from that 3.0-litre twin-turbo straight-six, but any potential increase will sit between the standard car's 473bhp and the CS's mighty 523bhp.
BMW said it's been testing this track pack around the 'Ring, but just how close it'll get to the CS' time of 7m 30s remains to be seen. More as we get it.
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