With BMW M2 Competition Coming To Market, Can You Still Make A Case For The RS3?

Two doors, compact proportions, blistered bodywork. Sound familiar? It should - it’s been the visual recipe for BMW Motorsport’s compact road-racers since the E30 M3 (and the 2002 Turbo before that).

It’s a recipe that the BMW M2 revived in 2016 following a short hiatus, but one key ingredient was missing: a true Motorsport engine. There’s no doubt the M2 was an appealing car (if not a faultless one) but for all its rowdy road and track behaviour and stocky stance it never quite felt like the naughty exercise in back-room engineering that its 1M predecessor had.

PUGPROUD - 4/19/2018 1:38:27 PM

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Four doors, more luggage capacity if these matter.

MDarringer - 4/19/2018 10:12:57 PM

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There is that. BUT I'd rather have RWD than Audi's competent but numb quattro.

JRobUSC - 4/20/2018 9:16:36 AM

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Of course you can make a case. AWD, four doors, practicality. I'd still rather have the M2 Comp (a clown shoe? It looks nothing like that. Are we that hard up for insults we're regurgitating them from the late 90's Z3 coupe? Alrighty then.) but there's an easy case for the RS3 over it if that's what someone wants.

MDarringer - 4/20/2018 7:07:02 PM

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The M2 is ugly. The Audi is very handsome. I'd like the Audi's superior styling and the BMW's RWD platform.

skytop - 4/21/2018 12:22:45 AM

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The M2 is really a physically small car. Many compromises are needed to live with it.

2ndbimmer - 4/24/2018 10:50:02 AM

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No case for the Audi. The M2 is the new E46 M3, but quicker. The vehicle that changed the entire "luxury" sport segment.
Much more fun than the Audi with its dated mechanical all wheel drive.