BMW 2 Series M235i Reviews | Overview

Externally, there’s lots to adore about the compact dimensions and crouching stance of the M235i xDrive that carries on the European adore of sedans masquerading as coupes.

The strategy worked so very well with the Mercedes-Benz CLS from 2004 that rivals adopted the style with this kind of fervour that it has virtually taken on its have category, evolving as rampantly as a Cavoodle litter in a Superior Road pet shop.

BMW will make its edition beneath the upmarket Gran Coupe label, spreading the adore to variations in the two Sequence, four Sequence and eight Sequence.

But the two Sequence Gran Coupe – of which there are four iterations priced from $49,990 (in addition charges) by way of to the M235i xDrive listed here at $seventy two,990 in addition on-highway charges – isn’t all it looks.

It is not, generally, a “proper” two Sequence with rear-wheel travel and it sits on a quite unique platform to the two Sequence coupe and convertible.

What this is, is a Mini that is got into BMW’s wardrobe and pinched a fancy outfit.

Further more, the M235i is almost certainly far better recognized for its 2014-2016 iteration with its stonking three.-litre turbo-petrol six and 240kW/450Nm of grunt. The car listed here has the similar name unique postal address.

Now before there’s gnashing of teeth by the populace and preparations for a symbolic guillotining of the faux BMW, it has to be said that the structure performs extremely very well and is not worthy of derision.

The M235i xDrive’s only criminal offense, nevertheless, is not the sporting of a BMW badge, but the software of the coveted M name. For nevertheless good this is, it is not an M.