The hybrid M cars are coming, and sooner than you think.
will be the last M car without any form of electrification. Big news. Following the debut of the flagship 2 Series, which we’re expecting very soon, all M cars will be hybrid in some form or another, leading one day to the all-electric M car. But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
For now, this is what van Meel had to say about the new car: “The BMW M2 will definitely be a purist driving machine with its straight-six and rear-wheel drive. We will see increasing electrification in other vehicles, of course in different forms, starting with the 48-volt electrical system and plug-in hybrids to fully electric drives.
Which obviously makes it a pretty big deal for the smallest M car, what with 50 years of spectacular internal combustion history creating a legion of BMW fans across the globe. As if the M2 wasn’t going to be popular enough already; it’s hard to imagine six-speed manuals lasting much longer in M cars, either… is due in production form by the end of the year.
Moreover, we’ve been here before with BMW. Every time there’s a drastic powertrain change, there’s much consternation and hand-wringing about the soul of an M car and how the character of these special BMW’s can’t survive the transition. A V8 M3 was sacrilege, and now are becoming highly prized; the turbo M car shouldn’t have been, yet who doesn’t love a
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