MotorTrend Names BMW M2 2024 Performance Vehicle of the Year

The 2024 BMW M2 is everything enthusiasts want across
design, performance, value, and driver engagement

LOS ANGELES, CA – July 15, 2024 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – MotorTrend announced today the BMW M2 has been named the 2024 MotorTrend Performance Vehicle of the Year. After undergoing extensive testing and competing against an impressive list of candidates, MotorTrend’s expert team concluded that the 2024 BMW M2 is the winner of the Golden Calipers because it offers enthusiasts everything they desire from a sports car. The BMW M2 has a powerful yet efficient twin-turbo engine, a standard manual transmission or no-cost automatic, room for four (and their things), and world-beating performance at a bargain price for the segment.

“We added our Performance Vehicle of the Year award three years ago to speak to an enthusiast audience amid a changing automotive landscape,” said MotorTrend Group head of editorial Ed Loh. “Enthusiasts are a discerning group with a lot of knowledge and very specific parameters for what they want in a performance car. We feel the BMW M2 fulfils everything one could want in a performance vehicle for 2024. It’s well-balanced, engaging, has great value, and is exhilarating to drive.”

Each contender for the Performance Vehicle Car of the Year competes against MotorTrend’s expert criteria: Advancement in Design, Engineering Excellence, Performance of Intended Function, Value, Efficiency, and Driver Confidence and Engagement. The BMW M2 exceeded the standards in its base form versus a field containing a broad range of machinery such as the fully loaded top-spec Ford Mustang Dark Horse and the half-million-dollar Ferrari 296 GTB.

The BMW M2 joins an esteemed list of winners alongside the 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 and the 2022 Porsche 911 GT3. For a more in-depth analysis of why the BMW M2 was named 2024 Performance Vehicle of the Year, please visit MotorTrend’s Performance Vehicle of the Year award story  https://www.motortrend.com/news/bmw-m2-2024-performance-vehicle-of-the-year/

Among the highlights of the BMW M2 is an engine shared with the M3/M4, an almost certainly underrated 3.0-liter twin-turbo I-6 making 453 horsepower and 406 lb-ft of torque, up 9 horsepower from the top-of-the-line last-generation M2 CS. In MotorTrend testing, the new M2 is quicker than both the old M2 CS and the current M4, with the automatic M2 ripping from 0–60 mph in 3.5 seconds and through the quarter mile in 11.8 seconds at…