Again, owned both the Golf and the M2 at the same time. They're not as far apart as you'd imagine, nor as much as the on paper specs would tell you. Have you owned either? The cars felt like they were competitors to each other, but they of course should not have been, they're from different classes of car.
You can't just shut down any form of debate unless the other person has also owned both cars as very few people have owned both a BMW M2 and a Golf GTI. This isn't an internet pedant-fest over two very similar cars as it would be if we were arguing about a Civic Type R and a Golf GTI - they are very different in terms of the performance on offer. Paper stats are not everything but the difference in this case is absolutely night and day. The M2 is enormously more powerful than the Golf GTI. I have not owned a BMW M2 but I have owned numerous slower cars, most of which felt as quick if not quicker than a Golf GTI and none of which would see which way an M2 went.
I mean come on - the BMW M2 has 365bhp and weighs 1500kg. The Golf GTI has just 227bhp and weighs 1400kg. This isn't internet semantics. This is an absolutely enormous difference.
Like I said I've not had the pleasure of the M2, but I have driven a Golf and frankly even my tedious diesel 5 Series is quicker than the Golf. Which is absolutely not intended to take anything away from the Golf - the GTI is an excellent car - but it's performance is such that there is even space above it in the same range for a faster Golf.
Such things are very subjective aren't they. The M2 felt like a range step down after the E92 tbh. Environment and performance wise.
But this is fair enough and a completely different point. It's absolutely correct, too - the M2 is after all a 2 Series, which is a Coupe 1 Series, a car that starts at under £20k. It's going to feel like one inside, too. In this regard, yes, the Golf is probably as nice inside if not more so in areas. But we're talking about performance, right, not interior plastics quality?
Remember - this started purely based on a comment you made about the performance - or lack therefore - of the M2. A car that by any accepted definition is indeed 'massively quick'.
Unless you're you, in which case you'll just carry on until people give up wanting to engage with you, which is fair enough I guess.
Yea, how dare I want to engage in discussion on a car forum that stretches beyond simply 'own both or go away'