Thousands of miles away from Germany in South Africa, the regional BMW concern built its own version of an E30 performer in very small numbers, and crucially, those engineers were chasing torque ...

Daud Gonzalez is a lifelong car enthusiast and automotive writer with a specialty in modified and race-ready rides. He spends most of his time modifying his cars and ruining them in the process. He is ...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most successful road and race nameplates in the automotive world: The BMW M3. It was not the first BMW Motorsport product—that would be the 1973 BMW ...

View post: I Hate Priuses, but the 2026 Prius Plug-In Changed My Mind. Here are Five Reasons Why. Mate Rimac’s path to fame and electric hypercardom started as a teenager racing an E30 BMW 3 Series, ...

One of the company's most iconic nameplates, the BMW M3 is nearly 40 years old as of 2025. It all started in 1986, four years after BMW introduced the second-generation 3 Series (E30). Intended to be ...

The E30 generation of the BMW 3 Series has to be the brand's most renowned run of vehicles at this point. Everyone from teenagers to collectors coveting the sporty lineup of handsome sedans and coupes ...

Countless bench races between BMW enthusiasts have highlighted the virtues of the different generations of M3. In fact, if we had a nickel for every time somebody claimed the E30 was the ...

BMW’s desire for a ‘sporty 3 Series’ in the mid-1980s gave rise to what has gone on to become one of the true greats of performance motoring.