Is the BMW M2 actually faster than it looks?

I don't understand why people hate the looks, but maybe I'm blind. All I know is other than the fact that its heavy, it has stupid amounts of power. These things dyno 450+ WHP stock!

How does one explain the look of the M2? Well, they took the last-generation car into the studio and added a ton of modeling clay to to. They started to sculpt it into a sexy new shape, but when when the designers went to lunch on the first day, someone approved the car and it accidentally went into production. 

Duke said:

I think it kind of looks like the LEGO version of itself.

This was my first thought on the car as well. But holy moly that box-flared chonky legobimmer is quick!

I like how this M2 looks, reminds me of a more old school aggressive style that you would not get from BMW lol.

The thing is I like the "specs" of the previous M2 a lot more and the Supra still more than that. 

This new car has almost like a Holden/Pontiac look to it. 

It's blocky in the old DTM way of the 90s/early 2000s IMO.  I like how the look.  

the biggest issue I have is the high cost of ownership. But wait, there's more.  I don't give a flip how fast they are or how much power they have or how they handle...What is more maintenance intensive than a turbo motor? A car with two turbos...that and the fact its German with all their fiddly annoying menus inside the car...geezus guys, at that price point it should Go like Hell and be stone cold reliable and not have a bunch of fiddly crap to deal with in the interior...and now they are fugly on top of it...forgetaboutit. Never ever gonna go there. I'll scare myself to death in my actually affordable, reliable, decent looking, relatively low ownership cost BRZ and when I have beat it to death, go buy another one and still be money ahead compared to the bimmer. 

ztnedman1 said:

It's blocky in the old DTM way of the 90s/early 2000s IMO.  I like how the look.  

Yeah, if you showed a non-car-person an E30 M3 and then said this is the successor 30 years later, they'd probably not have a hard time following the logic.