Photo: Vossen Wheels
There aren't a lot of other color combination so intrinsically associated with a specific model than the blue paint job and golden wheels of the Subaru Impreza WRX STIs of old.
The mere sight of these two is enough to make any vehicle look like a Scoob in our minds, just like cartoon characters used to see one another as big juicy roasts. And we're talking golden wheels here - that's something we wouldn't normally be praising on a car.
The BMW M2 is far from reaching the same level of notoriety as the Japanese sports sedan, but it is catching up. After BMW discontinued the wonderfully old school 1 Series M model, the M2 remained the closest thing somebody with a penchant for small, powerful, rear-wheel-driven Bavarian coupes could get their hands on.
And even though it lacks that raw, sometimes even dangerous nature of its predecessor, the M2 is still a mighty fun car to drive. It draws its power from a turbocharged straight-six engine developing 370 hp, and sends it to those rear wheels via a six-speed manual gearbox (seven-speed automatic also available, for the faint-hearted).
Those aren't exactly thunderous numbers, but they're enough to grant the pee wee coupe a top speed limited to 155 mph (250 km/h) and a respectable 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) time of 4.5 seconds. But, as we've said, it's not the power that makes the BMW M2 what it is, but the way it handles.
So while it might not be the four-wheel-drive brute that was the Subaru Impreza WRX STI 22B, it's still a worthy vehicle to bear its iconic color combination. This one came courtesy of Vossen, the wheel specialist with an online configurator that will keep you hooked for more than most smartphone video games could ever hope to.
The paint job is the BMW original Long Beach Blue, but with the golden Vossen wheels, it suddenly starts to appear a lot more Japanese than it really is. Just in case you're interested, the rims are called VPS-314T, but if you end up on Vossen's website, you'll find countless other models that might tickle your fancy.
The BMW M2 is far from reaching the same level of notoriety as the Japanese sports sedan, but it is catching up. After BMW discontinued the wonderfully old school 1 Series M model, the M2 remained the closest thing somebody with a penchant for small, powerful, rear-wheel-driven Bavarian coupes could get their hands on.
And even though it lacks that raw, sometimes even dangerous nature of its predecessor, the M2 is still a mighty fun car to drive. It draws its power from a turbocharged straight-six engine developing 370 hp, and sends it to those rear wheels via a six-speed manual gearbox (seven-speed automatic also available, for the faint-hearted).
Those aren't exactly thunderous numbers, but they're enough to grant the pee wee coupe a top speed limited to 155 mph (250 km/h) and a respectable 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) time of 4.5 seconds. But, as we've said, it's not the power that makes the BMW M2 what it is, but the way it handles.
So while it might not be the four-wheel-drive brute that was the Subaru Impreza WRX STI 22B, it's still a worthy vehicle to bear its iconic color combination. This one came courtesy of Vossen, the wheel specialist with an online configurator that will keep you hooked for more than most smartphone video games could ever hope to.
The paint job is the BMW original Long Beach Blue, but with the golden Vossen wheels, it suddenly starts to appear a lot more Japanese than it really is. Just in case you're interested, the rims are called VPS-314T, but if you end up on Vossen's website, you'll find countless other models that might tickle your fancy.
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