December 28, 2020
2020 BMW M2 CS First Drive | A BMW for the true believer
By Lawrence Ulrich It’s a brilliant car. Exclusive, too. But this limited-run model comes with a hefty price In the high-performance smorgasbord known as BMW Test Fest, held this year at New York’s Monticello Motor Club, there were richer, meatier dishes than the 2020 M2 CS. Among them: a 612-horsepower, $142,000 Alpina XB7, which plopped 5,900 surprisingly graceful pounds on Monticello’s tabletop-smooth track. The M5 and M8 Competition (at a respective $111,095 and $134,995), whose absurdly over-sauced, 617-horsepower V-8s make them faster than