{"id":18666,"date":"2022-03-28T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T17:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18666"},"modified":"2022-03-28T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T17:03:31","slug":"bmw-m2-spy-photos-should-be-looker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18666","title":{"rendered":"Spy photos show why the 2023 BMW M2 Coupe will be a looker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proper M car needs a few specific ingredients for its design to work. Outside of those ingredients, BMW is free to play around with whatever other new flavors and spices it wants to, so long as those few ingredients remain. Thankfully, as much as BMW seems to be completely rewriting its recipe books lately, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2022\/03\/24\/2023-bmw-m2-g87-spy-video-nurburgring\/\">BMW M2<\/a> remains faithful to traditional BMW design flavors, as seen in these spy photos.<\/p>\n<p>What are those main, necessary ingredients? A proper BMW M design needs to be stanced properly; with the right amount of angle from back to front; it needs to have swollen rear wheel arches; accentuating its rear-drive nature; and it needs quad tailpipes. The new G87 BMW M2 seems to have all three of those.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_422192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-422192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02.jpg\"><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-422192\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-830x830.jpg\" alt=\"2023 bmw m2 coupe 02 830x830\" width=\"830\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-830x830.jpg 830w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" title=\"image of 2023 bmw m2 coupe 02 830x830\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-422192\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20830%20830%22%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-830x830.jpg\" alt=\"2023 bmw m2 coupe 02 830x830\" width=\"830\" height=\"830\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-830x830.jpg 830w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2023-bmw-m2-coupe-02.jpg 1920w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" title=\"image of 2023 bmw m2 coupe 02 830x830\"\/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-422192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by instagram.com\/wilcoblok<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In these new photos, we get a pretty close up look at the upcoming BMW M2 Coupe. Obviously, the car is wrapped in heavy camouflage but we can still make out the meat and potatoes of its design. Up front, its kidney grilles are vastly different than those found on the M240i. They\u2019re boxier with horizontal slat inserts, rather than the softer-edged grilles of the regular 2 Series, which feature vertical active grille shutters in place of slats.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the rear of the car, you can see it has the right amount of swell in its rear wheel arches. It\u2019s not overly aggressive, so as to look boy-racer-ish, but it\u2019s just enough for onlookers to understand that it\u2019s something special . It also has quad tailpipes, like all M cars should. And, while it can be tricky to spot in photos such as these, it looks to be stanced correctly.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t wait to see the BMW M2 later this summer, as it will be the last in a long line of small, straight-six-powered, rear-wheel drive, manual M cars.<\/p>\n<p>[Photos by <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/wilcoblok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instagram.com\/wilcoblok<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proper M car needs a few specific ingredients for its design to work. Outside of those ingredients, BMW is free to play around with whatever other new flavors and spices it wants to, so long as those few ingredients remain. Thankfully, as much as BMW seems to be completely rewriting its recipe books lately, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}