BMW M2 (G87)
Why 7.3: The heaviest small M car ever — and still the one bought to be driven, because it's the last with a clutch pedal. Depreciates like a car whose owners genuinely don't care.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The S58 bites hard in the upper half and the exhaust valves let it crack between shifts, which is more than the F90 M5 manages. But it is a twin-turbo straight-six with heavy speaker augmentation, and beside the S54 in the E46 it sounds processed.
6-cylinder · turbocharged · 7,200 rpm redline · rated 6.0 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €61k (2023) → €52k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Two rear seats on this 4-seat coupe (no middle position) — both are the ISOFIX-equipped outer type.
No front-passenger ISOFIX — current G-series M cars all follow BMW's post-E9x pattern of dropping the front bracket.
BMW G-series ISOFIX pattern, cross-referenced against the BMW M5 (F90) official Suitable Seats document; no G87-specific document located (owner-community sourced, not manufacturer documentation)
The long version
Buyers choosing the manual here are turning down a genuinely quicker dual-clutch option to get a pedal BMW says it will not offer much longer, which filters for exactly the kind of owner who is going to use it rather than bank it. Values have fallen in a straightforward line since launch, nothing like the speculative curve JDM icons or homologation specials get elsewhere in this index, which is itself the evidence: a car people actually drive depreciates like a normal car. No badges attach because it does not do anything extreme; it is simply the last of a lineage doing what BMWs in this lineage have always done, unglamorously and often.