The BMW M235i has been the talk of the town recently, both for its great performance and evolution of the 1 Series Coupé, but also because of doubts about the efficacy of the M Performance badging. Those doubts are steadily being laid to rest, however, and while we’ve yet to get our hands on one to review, in this video we are given some reference point for the new coupé’s performance against the venerable 1 M Coupé.