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 original BMW E30 M3 was loved most of all for its exquisite handling and its understated good looks, rather than its power output. One build at SEMA is changing that, however, by throwing a mighty ...

After working predominantly as a freelancer at CarHP/CarIndigo, Amreetam joined the TopSpeed team as a journalist in September 2021. In a world where SUVs are booming, he favors sedans and adores BMWs ...

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, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." In the latest installment of Buy This Neat Thing (so the BMW suckers on staff don't have to), we ...

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, ...

When you think of perhaps the two most iconic generations of the BMW M3, it is likely the E30 M3 and E46 M3 will jump to mind. The following E30 M3 brings the best of both worlds, but is it really the ...

For the average enthusiast an E30 M3 would be a pretty exciting car to drive in stock configuration. It's a race homologation-special with a high revving engine and sexy 80s box flares, what more ...

You might already know the story of the E30 BMW M3—a combination of alphanumerics that means little to non-enthusiasts, but everything to the right sort of Bimmer nut. The M3, of course, is the first ...

BMW’s original E30 M3 was a serial race winner in its day and three decades later you wont find anyone disputing its status as blue-chip collector’s car. The way I see it, though, the values are way ...

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 ...