BMW M2 | PH auction block

That said, and as desirable as a street-legal track car sounds, we all know why many plans don’t get off the ground. To start with, the number of track days we want to attend is often very different from the number we are actually available for. Why would you adjust a car in Bedford two afternoons a year? Plus, there’s no escaping the fact that it takes an awful lot of time and money to really get a car ready for the track, and both aren’t exactly easy to come by…

So the solution is something like this very smart BMW M2, where you take advantage of someone else’s significant spending and buy a Clubsport-style car that’s ready to drive. Opportunities to buy such a car are actually not common, because people tend to get the most out of their investment. But here we have an M2 with everything you could want to change for a track specification, all completed in the last year, just one or two tweaks away from what 2026 has in store. Tempting, right?

And when we see that everything is done, everything is done: the M2 now has a cage, three-way adjustable suspension, AP Racing brakes, Recaro bucket seats with Schroth harness, a CAE shifter, lighter wheels, sticky tires, new arms, new bushings, a fire extinguisher… the list goes on. In total, more than £30,000 was spent on this M2 at Corten Miller in Boston to create the car you see here. All it needs now are some new drives – the perfect opportunity to upgrade further, you might say…

It is just as important that the useful properties of a modern M car have not been thrown overboard during the overhaul. There’s still air conditioning, iDrive and interior storage, unlike some factory BMW specials which, funnily enough, do away with cupholders or useful door cards. There’s absolutely nothing to stop you from using this M2 every day, contributing to the modest 32k figure however you like.

Then, with a free weekend or weekday evening as the weather warms up, it promises to be an absolute blast. The standard M2 was always a lot of fun on the track, but sometimes a little boring for its own good. This promises all the fun of a manual, front-engine, rear-wheel drive M car, with just a little more endurance and discipline in the mix. Which sounds damn good to us. Bidding starts Thursday, which means the auction ends on the 29th, so that’s January done; February always goes by in a flash, then it’s March and then the fun can really begin. It’s best to book your first track day for it…