猩式车评：宝马M2

The Clarkson Review: BMW M2

猩式车评：宝马M2

gearlever? I haven’t driven a manual for years

手动挡？活久见！

Saturday September 20 2025, 10.00pm BST, The Sunday Times

发布于2025年9月20日，泰晤士报

When Richard Hammond bought a Series 1 E-type Jaguar back in the days when we were doing Top Gear, I must confess I felt quite jealous. And then the feelings of envy got worse when it doubled and then trebled in value. My money was in the bank earning sod all. He was driving about in his money and it was going up in value at about 100 per cent a year. And there’s no capital gains tax on a classic car, which filled me with even more despair.

在我们还在录制Top gear节目的时候，理查德·哈蒙德买了一辆Series 1的捷豹E-type。我得承认，那个时候我很嫉妒他。随着E-type的价格不断攀升，我的嫉妒感也愈发强烈。我的钱在银行里落灰，他却能开着自己的移动小金库以每年翻一番的涨幅不断增值，而且经典车价格上涨还不用额外交税，真的是悔死我了。

Happily he hung on to the car, assuming that the money tree would continue to grow, and then, blam, the market for E-types stalled, so it’s now worth roughly what he paid for it. I’m not punching the air as I write this, I promise. But I am smiling.

好在，哈蒙德一直留着他的E-type没有卖掉，觉得他的这台摇钱树能持续增值。随后，E-type的二手车价值逐渐停滞，现在的价格跟他当初买下的成交价格差不多。在我写下这段的时候，也没有开心到手舞足蹈，但我的嘴角在止不住地往上翘。

There’s a question, though. Why did the market for E-types stall? I asked Hammond, who says that these old Jags are very much the canaries in the classic car market: “They were the first to rise when the market took off and now they’re the first to start falling.”

不过，问题在于：为什么E-type的市场价值停滞不前了？我问过哈蒙德，他曾说那些老豹子就跟经典车市场里的金丝雀似的，现在他的思路是：“当经典车市场开始火爆时，老捷豹是第一批涨起来的，现在也成为了第一批跌下去的。”

Hmm. That’s an interesting observation, but I’m not sure it holds water because, if you look at the market as a whole, classic car values are not falling. Only recently, for instance, someone paid nearly £600,000 for a Sierra Cosworth.

哈蒙德的思路虽说很有趣，但我觉得不太能站得住脚。如果你把经典车市场看成一个整体的话，那些老车的总价值是没有衰减的。比如在最近，某个大佬花了60万英镑（约合人民币558万）买了一台福特Sierra Cosworth。

I think I know what’s going on. When I was a kid my bedroom wall was festooned with pictures of E-types and Ferrari Daytonas and Jensen Interceptors. These were the dream cars back then. And as a result they were what people of my age bought when they reached middle age and had a few quid in the bank.

我能猜得到这60万英镑背后的真相。当我还是个孩子的时候，卧室的墙上总是贴满了捷豹E-type、法拉利Daytona和简森Interceptor的海报，它们是我曾经的梦想之车。当我们人到中年，银行里存着碎银几两时，就会去追求年少时梦寐以求的存在。

But today people of my age have arthritis and cataracts and wonky knees. And they (we) don’t fancy the idea of squeezing our frail and broken bodies into an old classic for a weekend trip to the local. We’d rather use a Range Rover.

但是，到这个年纪（大猩猩今年66岁），关节炎、白内障、晃动不已的膝盖如影随形，我们这些老登也很难把自己脆弱不堪的身体挤进一台几十年前的经典老车，趁着周末在当地四处闲逛，这种需求大揽胜会更为合适。

So what of the next generation? Ah well, this is where it gets interesting, because to someone in their forties the E-type was never a dream car. They look at it in the same way that I look at a Vauxhall Prince Henry or any of those other old crocks with running boards and all their controls on the outside. Getting them to be interested in a Daytona would be like getting them to be interested in a top-loading washing machine.

那我们的下一代人又喜欢什么呢？这就是事情变得有趣的地方：对于四十多岁的中登来说，捷豹E-type从来都不是他们的梦想之车，他们看E-type的眼神就跟我看沃克斯豪尔Prince Henry（1914年车型）或其他带着外置操控杆和各类踏板的老古董一样陌生。让他们对法拉利Daytona感兴趣就跟让他们尝试老式的波轮洗衣机一样别扭。

What they want are the dream cars from their childhood, which is why that Sierra Cosworth went for more than half a million quid. And it’s why the value of cars such as the Nissan Skyline, the Subaru Impreza and the Lancia Delta Integrale are skyrocketing.

那些中年人想要的是他们孩童时期的梦想之车，这也是为什么一台普通的Sierra Cosworth拍出了60万英镑（约合人民币558万）的高价。同样的道理也适用于尼桑Skyline GT-R，斯巴鲁翼豹，蓝旗亚Delta Integrale等经典车型，它们的市场价格也在迅速攀升。

So what’s next to be catapulted into the firmament? I should explain from the outset that I’m really not qualified to comment. I once sold a BMW 3.0 CSL for £3,250 — about £200,000 less than I’d have got if I’d waited a bit. And I once declined a Ferrari 275 GTS because it was £80,000. Today it would cost me more than a million.

所以，下一台身价暴涨的经典车将会是谁呢？我要先解释一下，以我的眼光其实不配回答这个问题。曾经的我以3,250英镑（约合人民币3万元）卖了一台宝马3.0 CSL——只要我稍微等一等，就能多卖20万英镑（约合人民币186万）。还有一次我拒绝了一台法拉利275 GTS，当时它要价8万英镑（约合人民币74万），而它现在的价格已经飞涨到一百万英镑（约合人民币930万）以上。

However, I’m going to stick my neck out and say that if you’re in the market for a future classic, I’d buy a 2018 BMW M2. It meets all the criteria. It was a bedroom poster star for the tail end of the PlayStation generation, whose bitcoin endeavours will soon provide them with the wherewithal for a weekend classic. It was good-looking. And, most important of all, it was a very good car. A genuine belter.

不过，我还是要冒着被骂的风险呼吁大家：如果你在寻找一台未来的经典车型，2018款的宝马M2非常合适，它拥有所有经典车的元素。它是那些最后一批玩索尼PlayStation游戏机的孩子们床头的海报车型，而他们在比特币上耗费的精力也将让他们很快能凑到足够的钱在周末体验驾驶梦中情车的快乐。M2的外形也很帅气，最重要的是，它是一台非常好的车，无与伦比的性能机器。

Which brings me neatly on to the car that has replaced it, the new M2. I was nervous about this, if I’m honest, because I recently experienced the new M5 and, dear oh dear, BMW has made a right old hash of that. Too complicated. Too hybridy. And far too heavy.

这也让我想起了它的换代车型：新M2。我对它的推出一度十分紧张，因为我刚体验过新宝马M5，真的一言难尽。宝马用一堆残羹冷炙凑出了那台车，它太过复杂，混动要素过多，而且重得离谱。

And when the new M2 came lumbering through my gates my hopes were not raised. This is not a looker. It’s like the old M2 was Russell Crowe in Gladiator and this is Russell Crowe now.

当新款M2笨拙地爬过我家的大门时，我的期望并不高。它的外观不够帅气，如果说老M2是《角斗士》（于2000年拍摄）中主演的Russell Crowe（新西兰著名男演员），那么新M2就是25年后已经老去的Russell Crowe。

Part of the problem are the bumpers, because someone has plainly told Bee Em’s stylists that plastic can be moulded so that an attractive shape results. It can’t. If you mould plastic to accommodate vents and curiosities you end up with something that looks like the modular bathroom units you find in budget motels. That’s what this car is then: Russell Crowe with a face that looks like a Formule 1 lavatory.

对于新M2的外观问题，保险杠要承担一部分的责任。肯定有人告诉过宝马的设计师塑料能被塑形成任何诱人的形状，但事实并非如此。如果你通过塑形来满足自己的好奇心，做出那些车辆专属的出风口等配件，最终你只会得到跟廉价汽车旅馆的浴室里各种模块化的塑料配件一样的垃圾。所以，新M2看起来就像中老年版的Russell Crowe配上F1风格移动厕所的前脸。

Inside you are faced with what appears to be a huge council house television, a wall of glass 3ft across, and you just know that it’s going to take about an hour to find the bit of it you must push to turn off all the health and safety nonsense.

在车内，你能看到的是一块巨大的、跟议会里的电视一样宽广的电子屏幕，整整3英寸（0.914米）的玻璃墙。你只要知道，光是在里面找各种健康与安全的监管功能一个个关掉就要花上一个小时。

But actually it turned out to be quite intuitive. And then I noticed the seats, which are part carbon fibre and part leather and, my God, they hug you. I’ve always said the seats in the old Renault Fuego Turbo were the best I’ve encountered, but these — optional extras of course — may be better.

但这套车机实际操作下来还是挺直观的。然后我注意到车子的座椅，它们是由碳纤维和真皮组成，坐进去的感受令我惊叹，天哪，完美契合，紧紧包裹。我总说老雷诺Fuego Turbo的座椅是我坐过最棒的座椅，但新M2车上的这套座椅——当然是选装的——或许体验更好。

And then, whoa, what’s this sticking out of the centre console? It can’t be. But it is. A gearlever. I was terrified. I haven’t driven a car with a manual box for about thirty years and felt certain I was going to spend my week bunny-hopping away from the lights and stalling at every roundabout.

然后，等等，这根从中控台上戳出来的东西是个啥？不是吧，活久见的手动挡！我有点焦虑，因为我已经有足足三十年没开过手动挡了，估计在接下来的一周里，我会经常在红绿灯前摸索着新M2的离合结合点，颤抖着把车开走，在每个环岛都尴尬地熄火。

Strangely, I didn’t. It all came back as though it had never gone away, and soon I was wondering if it isn’t the way forward. I know it’s a £545 option, or £1,925 if you include the extra road tax, and that this is absurd, but it suits the machine perfectly. Because this is a BMW M car and they’re for drivers and having a clutch to double D with is part of that.

奇怪的是，车子没有熄火，我也没有太生疏，一切关于手动挡的记忆似乎从未远去，不久我就想知道这是否会成为未来的趋势。我知道手动挡是新M2上价值545英镑（约合人民币5060元）的选配，如果算上额外的道路税就是1925英镑（约合人民币17874元）。虽说这个选配在2025年看来很荒诞，但这具手动变速箱与发动机完美匹配。因为M2是一台宝马M车型，它们是专为驾驶者而生的，又有一个可以做跟趾的离合器，一切都是驾驶体验的一部分。

There’s a facility on the vulgarsonic television that you can engage so that the revs “blip” on a down-change. I liked this when I first encountered it on a Nissan 370Z but I didn’t want the BMW doing things for me, so I turned it off. And played.

在那块巨大的屏幕上，有一个功能让你在手动降档时，发动机自动补油。当我第一次在尼桑370Z上体验这个功能时，我很喜欢；但在新M2上，我不想让车载电脑帮我补油，所以我把这个功能关了，然后开着它开始撒欢玩耍。

One of my favourite games was putting it in fourth and at a medium speed gently squeezing the throttle so that I could feel the torque from that twin turbo straight six in the pit of my stomach. Or putting it in second and flooring it so I could feel the power. There’s plenty of both.

在新M2上，我最喜欢的一个游戏是把车子挂到4档，在中等速度下温柔地挤压着油门，感受着双涡轮直列6缸引擎的扭矩挤压着我的胃；或是挂入2档然后油门到底，体验着马力全开的推背感，新引擎是真有劲啊。

Handling? Well, it’s a 473bhp, rear-drive BMW M car, so yes, it’s fab no matter which of the electronic options you select. Mainly this is down to the fact there’s no excess weight from a hybrid drive system. It perhaps isn’t as exciting as the old M2, but the ride comfort is first class, Even in supernuts mode it’s tolerable. In comfort it’s sublime.

新M2的操控如何呢？它是一台拥有480匹的、后轮驱动的纯种宝马M车型。所以，不管你在车机里设置哪种驾驶模式，它的表现都很出色，这一点主要归功于新M2没有混动系统带来的额外重量去拖累它。或许新M2开起来没有老M2刺激，但乘坐体验是无出其右的，甚至在“狂暴”模式下坐起来也没那么糟糕，舒适度给满分。

Other things? Well, the boot’s big, the rear seats are just about useable and the price is steep but not idiotic. Apart from the looks, then, this is a seriously good car. As good as the new M5 is bad.

其他方面呢？新M2的后备箱很大，后排座椅勉强可以使用，价格挺高但不算离谱，除了它老气横秋的外观，新M2是一台正儿八经的好车，跟新M5的糟糕表现形成了鲜明对比。

But I can’t quite get it out of my head that you could buy an old M2 for half the price. It’s even more fun, it doesn’t bong at you if you break the speed limit, it looks better and it will probably appreciate in value. Just a thought.

但我的脑海里一直萦绕着一个想法：你能用新M2一半的价格买一台老M2，它开起来更好玩，超速了也不会叮叮咚咚报警告，看起来更帅气，而且往后还有升值的可能（仅代表个人观点）。

宝马M2 Coupé 手动版

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