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ou’re right to be cynical about this pair of honed, hardened Speed Week veterans. Back in 2017, the BMW M2 Competition was a finalist in our horsepower extravaganza. The Alpine A110 won the whole shebang, pickling us in its cocktail of perfectly balanced small size, low weight, and Goldilocks power. Three years on, both have morphed into faster, stiffer, steeply priced evolutions that don’t seem to add up.

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