2022 BMW M240i Review-What Features Do You Rent?

2022 BMW M240i: A Driver’s Coupé with Biten, and lots of ongoing cost

BMW has a proud tradition of posh cars that are fun to drive. Gay boys love a badge, and none is bigger or better than the blue and white roundel, so the advertising says.

Since the Bangle days, BMW has struggled to relive the halcyon days of beauteous babes, racetrack ready, that were truly objects of wonton desire. M cars have come and gone, slightly watered down slightly by un-M-worthy models wearing the proud badge. Although the M240i is not the full M experience, it comes so close as to be of no never-mind.

The 3^rd generation 2-Series looks terribly plain in regular guise. Somehow it needs fat alloys, big rubber, and a loud noise, to plump out its chest.

Part of the 2-Series problem is the lack of garnish, but the M240i has no such issue. M240i is strewn with black highlights, a delicious set of 19” 5-spoke alloys, and fancy matrix LED headlights, that bling the humble 2-Series stratospherically past the hot-hatch list, and on into track porn history.

Although M240i is long and low, it maintains the chunky look of 80’s rally cars. Big, wide guards, flush door handles, and a bold, wide grille, look better in darker colours, particularly the menacing Thundernight purple, a $1,700 option.

Get BMW M240i Brochure HERE: THE 2 Series Coupe (G42)_0821

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Inside:

Our M240i got $2,000 worth of sports seats with adjustable bolsters, and a pull-out thigh extender. You need grippy cushions for the rampant butchness of track days, to have otherwise would have you sliding about the cabin like a rag doll.

The dash design is 100% current Beemer.

A 12.3” drive screen replaces tacky old dials that have no place in a 21^st century pucker racer. It is accompanied by a 10.25” infotainment screen that looks small because the low-slung landscape aspect is taken up with a lot of virtual buttons.

Voice control works well with the iDrive 7 interface, and menus have been simplified so that whether using the centre wheel, or on-screen touch selection, you can get what you want with a few clicks. All settings are nestled therein, with a rather disappointingly short list of driver and safety aids. There is no lane centering, leaving occupants to the whim of lane departure and its erratic steering intervention. M240i costs almost 90 grand, so this omission is a little naff.

You get decent Qi charging with a natty light that reflects off the screen to  remind you your phone is onboard. You’ll need it because wireless Apple CarPlay/ Android Auto drain the resources as if they’ve been strip-mined. The only fly in the ointment is that although the DAB+ is standard, CarPlay/Android Auto comes as part of a subscription model. In fact, some BMWs will have heated seats and steering wheels as part of this unforgiveable grab for cash.

We contacted a dozen other car-makers who also have Over the Air updates, and although most have various value-add selections as part of the menu, none is bold enough to ask you to pay for wireless CarPlay by subscription. Called Features On Demand, the system allows BMW to activate/deactivate features at will. It is claimed to allow users to customise their cars as they see fit during the ownership cycle, but ticking an options box at the time of purchase does the same thing, with no ongoing cost.  BMW is copping a well-deserved panning for this abominable practice that utterly ruins an otherwise sublime experience.

Let’s move on lest we sink further into a quagmire of resentment.

Space is bijou in the rear, where a 3^rd zone of climate control can be seen. You’re probably best thinking of M240i as 2+occasional 2.

There are 8 one-touch buttons for radio stations, destinations, or other car functions. There is also a saved radio stations store within the radio function itself. It is genius.

It would be churlish to move on without mentioning the excellent HUD. It projects a virtual 10” screen onto the windscreen to provide information as seen in fighter jets. It gives excellent directions, with turn-by-turn navigation that cleverly switches between map, and arrows on lanes when multiple choices are seen. It makes sure you’re are in the right place to go gayly forward, or to make a cheeky turn. Better still, Apple Maps will also show up should you decide to use Siri to light your way instead.

Get BMW M240i Brochure HERE: THE 2 Series Coupe (G42)_0821

The Drive:

M240i is all about the drive, and it is an absolute peach.

It starts with a gorgeous 3.0L in-line 6 cylinder engine. 285kw/500Nm Twinpower turbos catapult the 1765kg coupé to 100kph in 4.3 seconds. The 8-speed automatic is lusciously smooth, and things are kept tidy with x-Drive AWD. It favours the rear wheels, giving punters the feeling of a RWD, minus and nasty torque steer. The LSD and M adaptive suspension allow for limoesque ride that changes subtly to suit challenging circuits or misty mountain passes.

M240i is a tourer as much as it is a hot tracker.

BMW knows that buyers want choice, and they want it in one car. Adaptive suspension has many fixed settings, but each driver can prefer their own whims, and store them in a personalised menu. The car will remember the last used setting, but can be easily fettled at the press of a button.

The chassis feels as tight as a drum, and steering has calibrated resistance to simulate the road feel of old. In short, M240i is fast, incredibly solid, and massively enjoyable.

The small 52 litre fuel tank metres out fuel at an average rate of 8.0L/100k, but a small tank keeps the weight down, so there’s that.

The engine sound is subtle, even in the head-banging sports modes. I’d go so far as to say it is a little too quiet, and would like the option of a more epic soundtrack as befits epic performance.

Various online recordings can be made via the subscription service, as well as emergency calling after an accident, and the ability to find you car should you be absent minded.

Brakes are grippy, even by German standards, helped by sticky tyres, but remember, there is no spare.

Apart from the ghastly insistence on renting you infinite handiness, BMW M240i is Nirvana. We found ourselves looking for excuses to head to the shops, with most who saw it, commenting on the metallic Thundernight’s deep purple perfection.

There are a few final things that can’t go without an honourable mention.

First, the excellent, easy-to-use automated parking system. See our video for a quick demonstration.

Last, is the astounding Harmon Kardon sound system. Concert clarity is hard to reproduce in a car. It has to cope with a wide range of exertional factors ranging from road noise, to trucks, and appalling weather. Sound proofing is sufficient enough provide a mini home-theatre experience, even at full pelt down the M1.

Get BMW M240i Brochure HERE: THE 2 Series Coupe (G42)_0821

Conclusion:

It M240i’s looks are your thing, the BMW coupé is utterly beguiling.

It is happy as a daily driver. In fact, that may just be its Raison d’être. It is easy to make a hard-as-nails track car, they’re 2-a-penny. What is far harder is to take that car and make it a sexy little shopping cart.

M240i is refined, and gentle, even at its most brutal. There will be yobs for whom nothing short of a full-on M will do. May I suggest it is more about bragging rights than anything else. To do that, you will need many more shekels for an M3 sedan costing $169,000. Its stonking 375kw/650Nm  power plant will get you to 100kph a whole 0.5 seconds faster than the humble M240i. Is $80,000 worth 0.5 of a second? I think not.

That is not to say that should one have a lazy 200k laying about the place, an M3 wouldn’t be the duck’s nuts. You also get a little more space, and an extra couple of doors, but its visage is one only a mother could love.

No, for me, the M240i is plenty.

• Price: $89,900 (as tested $93,600)
• Engine: 3.0L in-line 6
• Power: 285 kW / 500 Nm
• Trans: 8-Speed Automatic
• AWD – BMW xDrive
• Econ: 8.0L/100k
• CO2: 185

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