BMW built the M2 xDrive because of American and Swiss demand.
Customers wanted an AWD coupe they could run with all-season tires.
The 2027 M2 gets other minor changes.
BMW has been selling all-wheel-drive versions of its M3 Sedan and M4 Coupe for a while now. Finally, the automaker extended its xDrive offering to the smaller M2 Coupe. And it did so for a good reason.
Speaking with Bimmer Today (and translated by BMW Blog), BMW M Boss Frank van Meel explained that customers living in the Northeast (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) and the Midwest (Illinois, Michigan, Ohio) tend to use all-season tires even in the spring and summer, so a rear-wheel-drive M2 is "simply not feasible," he says. Apparently there was "a lot of demand" from those customers.
