William and Mawaqi Goodwin with their BMW M2 CS. Photo: James Coleman.
There are more important things to focus on in a BMW M2 CS than trifling concerns about where to put a takeaway coffee.
For starters, getting yourself in. It’s a low car and the stiff racing-style bucket seats have many pointy edges that find themselves in places that could be considered rude.
But then there’s the 390 kW turbocharged straight-six under the bonnet, the carbon-fibre bodywork and the overarching fact only 94 examples have been allocated to Australia.
So it’s definitely a bit special.
But for owners William and Mawaqi Goodwin, the car’s most important option might just be the cupholder.
Or more specifically, the $1500 carbon-fibre cupholder they had fitted between the seats because BMW forgot to include a decent one.
“Yeah, the cupholder,” William laughs when asked about his favourite extra.
The pair, members of BMW Car Club Canberra, was among the first Australians to take delivery of BMW’s latest special-edition M car.
Finished in the gorgeous M2 CS-exclusive Velvet Blue metallic, it’s the sort of car you can’t help but run your eyes along and over the M2-CS-specific ducktail spoiler on the rear.
BMW’s “CS” badge stands for Competition Sport and is reserved for some of the brand’s most focused road cars. Compared with a standard M2, the CS gets more power, less weight, extra carbon fibre and a 0-100 km/h time of just 3.8 seconds.
It’s also considerably more expensive, with a list price of $172,900 – before options. And it’s not easy to get one.
When BMW announced the M2 CS globally in May 2025, William already had his name down.
“The following day, the salesman at Canberra BMW rang us up to say there are now three people in the queue for the first to be delivered to the ACT,” he says.
“He said the first person to come in and pay the remainder of the $100,000 non-refundable deposit gets the car.”
The couple promptly put the rest of their lives on pause and headed to the dealership.
“I still feel a bit guilty about it, but we subsequently heard that the people in the queue ended up changing their minds anyway,” William says.
They’re both wearing branded BMW merch on the day I meet them. But neither William nor Mawaqi have exactly been BMW devotees from the beginning.
They come to the CS, from yes, another M2 and a BMW X3 runaround before that, but their pride and joy is a Mazda RX-8 – the same car that starred in their wedding photos.
“We’re never going to sell that. It’s very sentimental to us, even if we’re on engine number three and diff number four,” William says.
“Ultimately, I just like small cars, I think due to my JDM background. The BMW M3, in my mind, is just a bit too big, while I like my small two-door cars. So the M2 just ticked all the boxes.”
Far from the usual bow on the bonnet, Canberra BMW put on a proper show for them when the car finally arrived just before Christmas last year.
“We weren’t expecting many people from the club because it was a Monday morning, but they made us an M2 CS cake, with a picture of us on the front,” William says.
“And we joke, but it’s true – we look happier cutting that cake than we did cutting our own wedding cake,” Mawaqi adds.
The M2 CS made its first public appearance at the Canberra Festival of Speed in January, but unlike many limited-edition performance cars, the Goodwins have no plans to hide it away.
Instead, it’ll be their daily driver.
“If another petrol M2 comes out, we’d be enticed to upgrade, but if the next one’s an EV, or if they don’t end up doing another M2, this one is for life. We’re going to daily drive it forever,” William says.
William and Mawaqi don’t plan on ever swapping the M2 CS for anything. Photo: James Coleman.
The cupholder isn’t the only indulgence.
William also ticked the boxes for carbon-ceramic brakes, self-levelling BMW wheel centre caps, a carbon-fibre engine cover worth about $3000, paint-protection film and a long list of smaller accessories.
Then there’s the carbon-fibre bootlid, complete with that distinctive spoiler. As a spare part, BMW reportedly charges about $45,000 for it – seemingly to discourage owners of lesser M2s from building their own imitation CS.
Still, all of these options pale in comparison to what might be Canberra’s most expensive cupholder.
The only problem is that they have to share it.
Blue Velvet and gold wheels – the perfect combo. Photo: James Coleman.
2026 BMW M2 CS
- $172,900 (plus driveaway costs)
- 3.0-litre twin-turbo inline 6-cylinder petrol, 390 kW / 650 Nm
- 8-speed dual-clutch transmission, rear-wheel drive (RWD)
- 0-100 km/h in 3.8 seconds
- 1775 kg.
Original Article published by James Coleman on Region Canberra.
