For those obsessed with lightweighting, it’s much cheaper to start a new diet or empty the crap out of your trunk than it is to order anything from BMW’s M Performance Parts catalog. But if you’d prefer to lighten both your M2 and your wallet, BMW can help you shed up to 132 pounds and more than $14,000 with the items showcased on the M Performance Parts concept.

Squint a bit, and this concept, which made its debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, might revive memories of the E36 M3 Lightweight from 23 years ago. It may not be the ultimate M2, like the more powerful and track-focused M2 Competition, but the Parts concept boasts exclusive bits that aren’t available on that car.

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Although the carbon-fiber mirror caps, diffuser, and tips on the performance exhaust are already familiar to M2 owners, newer additions include a carbon-fiber hood, roof, and trunklid along with front and side winglets, front-fender cutouts, and the twin-kidney grille openings. And they all will be available for purchase. A lithium-ion battery alone saves nearly 31 pounds.

Gold paint adorns much of the concept car’s trim, including forged 19-inch wheels riding on Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires (a $5495 option). The trunklid has bulges on either side and deletes the regular car’s decklid spoiler. Inside, manually adjustable one-piece carbon-fiber bucket seats with gold M logos—plus bucket seats for the rear—shave another 48 pounds. We should also note that if BMW fitted the M2’s standard six-speed manual transmission in place of the concept’s dual-clutch automatic, it’d save even more mass.

In addition to the weight savings, BMW claims all of these aero pieces improve downforce to some degree. And for M2 track rats, the catalog’s manually adjustable M Performance coil-over shocks offer 12 modes for compression and another 16 for rebound.

While some parts (such as the suspension, winglets, and diffuser) are available now, others (like the carbon-fiber trunklid) won’t be available until late 2019. So those who wait stand to lose the most weight.

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