Get your checkbooks ready, because an extra-special version of the BMW M2 is coming to the United States in very limited quantities: the M2 M Performance Edition. It’s essentially an M2 with all available performance options and several comfort and convenience features removed?you know, so you can focus on the driving. And it comes only with a six-speed manual. Yes, we’re drooling, too.
BMW doesn’t have any images available yet, but the company did tell us that the M Performance Edition’s visual tweaks consist of black trim for the kidney grilles, mirror caps, and side gills; the car also gets titanium exhaust tips. Illuminated doorsills are included, and a special LED projection lamp displays an image of the Performance Edition name on the ground when the doors are unlocked. You can have any exterior color as long as it’s Alpine White. Standard performance goodies include an M Performance coil-over suspension, an M Performance exhaust system, and the M Driver’s package, which raises the top speed from 155 mph to 168 mph and includes a day of performance driving school. What’s perhaps more interesting is what the M2 M Performance Edition doesn’t have. The M2’s standard power seats are swapped out for manual sport seats without heating, a more basic audio system stands in place of the upgraded Harman/Kardon system, the smoker’s package is removed, the automatic climate control is single-zone rather than dual...