It’s been nearly two years of ownership with my BMW M2 Competition. The common question I get from fellow car guys is if I’m going to do any modifications to it. Because as of right now the car is still bone stock as it left the factory. There isn’t even a decal on the windows, zero signs of personalization whatsoever. The days of spending the next paycheck on car parts is truly passed and gone.
It’s not that I wouldn’t want to do modifications to the M2. The problem is, the parts I would want to put on the car are so god damn expensive. $200 set of lowering springs and $1000 set of wheels this is not. When you’re dealing with cars the caliber of a BMW M2, a proper suspension upgrade is $3,200 for a set of Ohlin dampers. If I want to change the wheels, only a $4,000 set of M Performance wheels will do. What about an exhaust upgrade? The Akrapovic unit made out of titanium I very much would like is $5,700.
Car parts - the good stuff, anyways - are incredibly expensive! Just those three items I mentioned alone is enough money to buy a whole other used car. Never mind the fact that I also want to wrap the M2 in red - a color it never came with from the factory. Had red been offered - it was available in the lower trims of the 2 series - I would have bought it in that color instead of white.
So yes, I would love to do modifications to the M2. But I’m at a point in life I am unwilling (and shouldn’t, honestly) to spend nearly $15,000 to replace parts on a car that works perfectly fine. I rather save that money towards a down payment on a whole other car. Like the forthcoming Honda Civic Type R…
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