triggered me out of curiosity.



There is a lot of light and shadow.



First, the real car is ugly.
It has spot-on classic BMW proportions, and very butch wide fenders.
And a proper trademark shoulder line with Hofmeister kink for the C-pillar.
So far so good.



But the boxy front with deleted twin headlights, boxy openings, gaping mouth.
And despite the vertical lines abandoning the typical vertical kidney gills for ladder-like ones.
Rear end plain odd.
Cockpit just plain boring, a generic tablet instead of design.

The striking color covers up some of these problems.





So to the model's issues.
Great lines, good wheels, lights, carpet, sprung chassis, nice ride height, smooth shutlines, scissor hinges, crisp exhaust tips.
Thumbs up.

Several unnecessary mini faults, though.
Front track a bit too narrow.
Forgotten brake light.
Carbon roof too grey. But intentional, they want it that way.
Nonsensical tablet decal.
Nice plates, but idiotic mistake: the M (for Munich) is taller than the other letters. Wtf??
A certain lack of engine detail, color and more stickers would light up the plain real one.













In natural light the color changes.















Under light the color changes again.
These pix show the excellent proportions of the M2. Which is basically a shortened M3/M4.
The better looking predecessor F87 was a bit too stubby.





More later.
So I did not end up as a "Musclecar 69-71" collector. ;-)