BMW M2 – interior and tech
Beautifully built and with tech you’d normally find in the class above
The M2 gets the curved touchscreen and digi-dials set-up found on bigger BMW models, which looks a mite squashed into the M2’s smaller cockpit but is slick and user-friendly to operate via both the screen and the familiar iDrive clickwheel. As with other modern M-cars, you can mix and match modes for the dampers, steering, engine map, brake pressure and traction control (with ten stages as per the M3/M4, and the more general halfway-off M Dynamic Mode for stability and traction). You can store your favourite settings via the M1 and M2 triggers on the steering wheel to save delving into the menus each time.
Interior quality is high, with optional carbon trim and an M-specific steering wheel providing the racy ambience you’d expect of an M car. The M2’s optional M Carbon bucket seats (complete with their odd carbonfibre codpiece dividers, giving you one channel for each leg) are hard work to climb into but plumb you nicely into the cabin. It would be nice if they could sink just a touch lower but the driving position is still far lower than you’d find in many performance cars, with plenty of adjustment.
Right-hand drive manual M2s have an offset pedal box, and we’d recommend trying the M Carbon buckets with the three-pedal option before committing to them. Some have complained that the central divider on the seat base can make using both feet a little uncomfortable, although it’s not something we’ve noticed.
