There's just something about an old BMW that never gets old. That sounds redundant, but it isn't. The BMW E30 M3 is a legendary little sports car that was first introduced in 1986, but its legacy ...

The first-gen M3 remains a legend, but there were other interesting E30-based high-performance models that deserve more respect ...

The love began years ago. Every morning on my way to work I would walk past one. An E30 M3. Something about the shape, the stance, the trim perfection of the profile, the kidney grille (remember that?

And the road cars were only created to homologate the racers. That’s genuine motorsport pedigree. Initially the plan was for 5,000 to be built. BMW underestimated demand for the car magnificently. By ...

Back in the day, the E30 M3 dominated race tracks and rally courses around the world, but these days, it’s the BMW 325i that’s getting all the action. The 325i is raced in the SpecE30 racing ...

BMW has a history of showcasing fictional variants of its vehicles on April Fool's Day, and this year, the brand showed two. Both were fictional M cars: a rally raid-ready M2 Dakar and a GT3-spec ...

After shopping around for insurance quotes on my new BMW M3 Competition xDrive, I was shocked to discover it would cost less ...

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 ...

Wagons are back, baby. The BMW M3 Touring is just about the best one-size-fits-all solution to going fast, practically. When Drive Managing Editor Trent Nikolic drove the BMW M3 Touring at its ...

For such a practical take on the performance car, the new BMW M3 Touring has a wonderfully skunkworks vibe. ‘This is my baby,’ declares M division’s head of development, Dirk Häcker.