People love BMW. Or, rather ... peaked – was it the E46 M3 or maybe the E90 M3 with its high-revving naturally aspirated V8 – but the E28 started it all, and much like Mike opines in his ...

The E46-generation BMW M3 is by far the most successful M car in ... The first "true" M5, the E28 builds on the success of the earlier M535i by installing the M1 supercar's M88 straight-six ...

Any new BMW M3 is a big deal to the enthusiast car community ... Sure, the original 282-hp E28 M5 was much lighter, but that one had nowhere near this sort of power-to-weight ratio.

The M5 E28 was one of the early pioneers of sleeper ... To encourage those buyers, BMW limited the M3 CSL to 155 mph as standard, but allowed each buyer the option of raising the limiter to ...

Once the E12 evolved into the E28, BMW’s engineers wanted more ... which was deemed too similar to the M3’s powerplant, prevailed. The E39 M5—based on what some consider to be the most ...

I was a bit dumbfounded when I learned that BMW sold 60,000 units of the old ... The first M cars as we know them—E24 M6, E28 M5, and E30 M3—were a very different proposition.

The BMW M3 easily shows up in the top 10 performance cars on just about every critic’s list. With the new M3 just on the horizon, it’s time to pay homage to the original: the BMW E30 M3. It’s a ...

Unlike the E30 M3, which has a secure rear ... footage of Tony Viana racing a modified E28 at Kyalami in South Africa), but it was still hand-built by BMW Motorsport in Garching and has an M1 ...