However, grandpa E30 M3 can still teach it a thing or two. The E36 and E46 were every young man's dream BMW. They made German inline-6 engines feel obtainable. There was something for everybody.

Remember when the E30 generation of the BMW 3 Series was dirt cheap, and the M3 variant quite affordable? Well, those days are long gone, as you will have to fork out a small fortune for the range ...

You missed out on the massive BMW E30 M3 appreciation-fest of ... Ten years on, mark my words, a good 1987-1991 M3 will be harder to find than a Black Lotus card from Magic: The Gathering.

The white cam cover with the M division's tri-color stripes—with "BMW M Power" jumping out at you—is a clear sign of an Evo II E30 M3. Some little changes outside are apparent to those with ...

So far, there have been six BMW M3 generations, starting with the homologation special E30 in 1989 and its 2.3 ... to go with ...

Yet the moniker has come to stand for something quite different to the original E30 that BMW ... black, one-of-600 Sport Evo would mean shelling out £17k as opposed to the £11k a regular M3 ...

Now, auction site Bring a Trailer has another 1991 BMW E30 M3 up for grabs, and thankfully, this one is in brilliant condition too. Showing just 31k miles on the odometer, this “Alpine White ...

Even as it churns out those . . . things called the X6 and the 5-series Grand Turismo, BMW’s credentials remain intact. Thank the M3, which ... and the big white-on-black dials lack the digital ...

Back in the 1980s the E30 3 Series was selling pretty well in that country, as it did everywhere, but they did not get the top-shelf M3. So BMW South Africa decided to make their own, sort of ...

Now we're only BMW. We do a lot of servicing. BMW is building its cars so well these days that it's extremely expensive to make any worthwhile modifications. This Jägermeister M3 is a treat for us." ...

Then again, the folks at BMW's M division outdid themselves with the E30 BMW M3 — the first-ever M3 that made a huge splash at the 1985 IAA in Frankfurt. BMW said the first-gen M3 is a ...