BMW M2 — Nice

The M2 is BMW's most focused driver's car — compact, rear-wheel drive, and built around a chassis that rewards precision. On the Moyenne Corniche climbing through Èze, where the road narrows and the gradient shifts every few hundred metres, a car this size makes sense in ways a wider supercar simply cannot. You place it exactly where you want it, corner after corner, with enough power to keep things interesting without overwhelming a public road. Our 2024 BMW M2 is a sport coupé with two doors and the kind of mechanical honesty that appeals to drivers who care more about the act of driving than the theatre of arrival. It seats four — two comfortably in the rear for shorter transfers — and fits easily into the underground garages and narrow lanes around Old Town or Port de Nice that punish anything wider than 1,900 mm. From €450 per day, this is a deliberate choice. Clients who book the M2 tend to know exactly what they want: a morning run from the city up the Grande Corniche to La Turbie, lunch somewhere quiet above Monaco, then back along the coast through Villefranche before the afternoon heat builds. It is a car suited to that kind of self-directed day — no entourage, no spectacle, just road and response. Handover can be arranged at Nice Côte d'Azur Airport terminals or at your hotel along the Promenade des Anglais. The M2 is also a practical option for multi-day holds if you plan to mix city driving with longer routes toward Cannes or westward on the A8. Its fuel economy on autoroute stretches is noticeably better than anything with eight or more cylinders, which matters on a three-day itinerary covering real distance. One variant is available in our current fleet. If you are comparing it against higher-powered options in the collection — the Ferrari 296 GTB, for instance — consider what kind of driving you actually want to do. The M2 does not compete on horsepower. It competes on involvement, and on these roads, that distinction is worth understanding before you book.