BMW is ready to let you make your M2 a little bit quicker. The latest from BMW M Performance parts is called the M Performance Track Kit. It comes with a new front splitter and wheel arch diffusers, along with a new rear wing. You also get new height-adjustable coilovers, and M2 CS owners can get a louder exhaust. M Knows You're Doing More Track Days The M division starts the announcement by acknowledging that more and more drivers are actually taking their M cars to the track, which makes sense, since they've been far too fast to really enjoy on the road for a very long time. As M describes it, "track days are becoming an increasingly popular pastime for drivers with sporting ambitions."BMWNaturally, the performance automaker wants you to leave a good impression on your fellow drivers when hurtling your Bimmer around your local circuit, even if it's just the entry-spec M2 model. Your M2 can look the part thanks to the manually adjustable front splitter. It hides away when you're not on the track, then "deploys" for track use. BMWThe new swan neck wing is the same one used on the M4 GT3 and GT4 customer cars. In its Street Mode, it sits over the trunklid, remaining road-legal in Germany and similar jurisdictions. Once you're on a private road – say, a racetrack – Race Mode slides the wing rearward two inches to make it more effective. Like the splitter, you can change the angle of the rear wing for more or less downforce, allowing you to balance the two front to rear. It has a built-in third brake light, so hopefully nobody bashes you in that heavy braking zone.If that's not enough, there are new wheel arch diffusers, also known as dive-planes. The little winglets on the front bumper move air around the car for improved aero efficiency and downforce. You can't see it, but there is a scoop under the oil cooler as well, to keep temperatures in check. Suspension Has More Adjustments Than You'll Know What To Do With BMW Threaded coilovers add four-way adjustable rebound and compression damping, as well as ride height adjustment. BMW says you can drop the car almost an inch, and since it's threaded, "the height adjustment is infinitely variable" within that travel. BMW M has tested the parts in its wind tunnel. Jörg Weidinger, a BMW M test engineer and a Nürburgring lap record holder, did the final fine-tuning of the kit. It's also been tested using optional "ultra-track" tires.BMWLike the M2, the kit isn't exactly cheap. It'll run 23,500 euros in Germany, plus tax and installation. That's about $28,000 at current exchange rates. Including the cost of the car, a BMW M2 with the performance kit will start at 101,000 euros – nearly $120,000.If you'd rather be heard and not seen, M has that covered as well. A lighter (by 17 pounds) and louder exhaust system is now offered for the 523-horsepower M2 CS. You can add the $10,000 exhaust to your car, and though BMW doesn't say it'll make more power, it does deliver more noise. It also has multiple modes to let you turn the sound down to keep the neighbors happy. Carbon and titanium tips make it look good, too.BMW M teased the track package half a year ago. At the time, we expected bigger brakes and even more power, because BMW was hinting at going after records. Instead, it will keep the same brakes and the same 473-horsepower 3.0-liter twin-turbo I6. The kit goes on sale in July in Germany, and should make the already sharp M2 even sharper.BMW M2 Track Pack (11)
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