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 ...

The BMW E30 M3 remains incredibly sought after today, but not just for being the car that started the M brand. The car is also desirable for its on-track prowess, having utterly dominated touring car ...

This one-off E30 M3 4-door model started life as a 1989 BMW 318i 5-speed, with work on it being done both in Poland as well as in New York. This is the only car of its kind in the world, and it will ...

The E30 BMW M3 remains the winningest, or most successful, road-racing touring car ever made, dominating Group A and DTM. It made its world debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1985, ...

It's pretty safe to say that most BMW designs today are the talk of town. Unfortunately for them, it's not for the best reasons. But scandals sell, and maybe that's the approach in Bavaria nowadays.

The folks at Gunther Werks are no strangers to building German hot rods. Stepping away from their flagship 993-generation Porsche 911 builds, on Saturday, the California-based performance specialists ...

Few BMWs are more universally loved than the E30 generation M3. Originally engineered as a homologation special to meet DTM and Group A Touring regulations, the E30 M3 is still viewed by some ...

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 ...

The first M3 in 1986—the square boxy one—was loosely based on the E30 3-Series and had a four-cylinder engine. That M3 really was a homologation special, spun off a car created for racing. Back then, ...

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, ...

To celebrate the E30 M3, we expect the G80's optional carbon fiber bucket seats to feature in the 2026 anniversary edition, likely with commemorative badges below the headrests. Seats made of ...