If a really tasty piece of road appears in the windscreen, I sometimes switch to Sport +, which firms up everything and puts the ESC into a more playful mode. This gives me nice, snappy responses from the powertrain but without the filling-removing ride. True, you can stiffen up its £515 optional adaptive dampers by playing around with the Sport and Sport + driving modes, but the setting I drive it in mostly is with the engine and gearbox in Sport and the chassis set to Comfort. It puts its power down neatly on to the road, despite not benefiting from a limited- slip diff, and it’s also a touch softer than you might expect, in an entirely good way. Not a single fault occurred during the seven months that I ran the car, first as a convertible and then for the last four months as a coupe. I could find precisely zero to complain about with the M240i in terms of its quality and/or its reliability. My preferred everyday setting was to have the engine and transmission in sport with the dampers and steering in comfort, although whenever a really decent road appeared in the windscreen I tended to press Sport +, mainly because this would also put the esp system into a slightly more fruity mode.
If anything I preferred the steering feel and responses in regular mode because selecting Sport + would add weight but not feel, but thankfully you can do that separately in the car’s iDrive menu, and again I found this a highly useful tool during the car’s tenure. BMW M240i Coupe vs Porsche 718 Cayman vs Audi TT RS: 2022 group test review.Toyota GR86 vs BMW 230i: 2023 twin test review.And if anything, it feels faster and more urgent from 50mph upwards than it does when leaving the line, thanks to its thunderous low to mid-range torque and its closely stacked gear ratios. Specify the optional (and excellent) 8-speed automatic gearbox and use the launch control system, however, and that’s how quick the M240i is. No way, for instance, would you guess that this car can get from zero to 62mph in the exact same time as £165,000 Aston Martin GT8. But for whatever reason the M240i doesn’t look anywhere near as potent as it actually is, and I rather like that in a car nowadays.
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Maybe it’s the relatively small 18in wheels, maybe it’s the absence of any extrovert skirts and spoilers like the ones you get with the full house M2. There are various reasons why, but I believe the main one concerns the car’s styling. The BMW M240i is one such car, especially as a coupe, although even the convertible version I ran for a while before swapping it for the coupe turned out to be far better than I anticipated. More performance, more usability, more of everything basically.
We’re not sure there’s anything else on the road that’s quite like it – even the more hardcore, faster and more expensive BMW M2.Įvery once in a while you come across a car that delivers more than you expect it to. It’s a seriously rapid small coupe that’s also surprisingly refined and dead easy to live with at the same time. The more we drove the BMW M240i, the more we fell in love with the car.
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