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Episode 419: 2025 BMW M2, 2025 Honda CR-V TrailSport

Unnamed Automotive Podcast Sep 14, 2025 41 min

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The episode dives into the 2025 BMW M2, highlighting its 473 horsepower and the inclusion of a manual transmission, a rarity in luxury performance cars today. The hosts discuss the car's performance, adjustable drive modes, and the challenges of navigating its complex technology. They also critique the 2025 Honda CR-V TrailSport, which offers minimal off-road enhancements and lacks significant features compared to competitors. The discussion touches on the evolving market for performance and crossover vehicles, emphasizing the need for genuine off-road capabilities in such trims.

Topics: 2025 bmw m2 manual transmissions performance cars 2025 honda cr-v trailsport off-road capabilities drive modes vehicle pricing hybrid vehicles

Cars: Audi e-tron Audi Q3 BMW M2 BMW M3 BMW M5 BMW M Coupe (E36) Chevrolet Camaro Ford Mustang GTD Honda CR-V Honda Passport Jeep Grand Cherokee Jeep Renegade Lotus Elise Subaru Outback Toyota RAV4

This week the Unnamed Automotive Podcast is so revved up it's putting Benjamin to sleep! Even while Benjamin does tons of PR for his upcoming book (www.modeluncomic.com) he has time to review a car for us. He jumps into the pilots seat of the 2025 BMW M2, which has been totally redesigned on a new platform and feels very close to its M3/M4 cousins. While boasting plenty of power, and a manual gearbox, Benjamin wonders if there's something missing in the M2's typically exciting sauce. Then Sami climbs into the 2026 Honda CR-V TrailSport Hybrid, and comes away unimpressed. Yet another off-roading cosplaying trim arrives on the street with minimal real upgrades to capability and it sends out hosts into disassociation mode. What does Honda think its doing? Listen to find out!

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BMW M2

"...f. Now we're off to a good start. Is the 2025 BMW M2 and the version that I drove came with a six spee..."

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BMW M5

"...ite as many options in the M2 as there are in the M5 that we talked about earlier in this year, which ..."

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Chevrolet Camaro

"...em. Yeah, I don't remember when Chevrolet had the Camaro one L.E. Yeah, and you can get performance tracti..."

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Bmw M

"...it confusing. My complaint about how configurable BMW M cars have been in recent years is the fact that i..."

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BMW M3

"...that's because for this generation of M2, it's an M3, M4 front subframe and rear subframe on the same ..."

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Lotus Elise

"...situation where I was playing around with a Lotus Elise that had appeared on a favorite back road of mine..."

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Ford Mustang GTD

"an interesting parallel is the Ford Mustang GT dark horse, which in Canada is also an eighty"

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Honda Crv

"on a twenty twenty six Honda CRV, which is a hybrid with the trim,"

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Passport Trail Sport

"weird because there's a new passport trail sport, which was going to be testing that next"

IFCAR (Public domain)

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Subaru Outback

"would modify their crossover like the outback or the cross track."

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Jeep Grand Cherokee

"It was just Cherokee and Grand Cherokee. I think there might have been"

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Jeep Renegade

"I think there might have been a Renegade. But again, don't quote me on"

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Toyota RAV4

"And I believe that the TRD version of the RAV4, which again, CRV is super late to the game, righ..."

Alexander Migl (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Audi Q3

"If you can believe that to drive the Audi Q3, a vehicle I haven't thought about in a long"

Alexander Migl (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Audi Etron

"to talk about another Audi. The SQ6 e-tron. I believe I have that right,"

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