With BMW M cars growing larger, more complex and painfully more expensive, many brand purists are longing for the days of light, RWD, fast and nimble cars that represented what the company did best. Now, according to every rumor and speculation out there, the BMW M2 is right around the corner, and it promises to bring back some of that previous glory. Watching these two BMW 2 Series-based prototypes, very likely near-production versions of the M2, race each other around the Nurburgring, we're sure you'll agree that the future's gonna be sweet.

Check out this mean brotherly race coming at you directly from Germany: