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?

If you were to create a single M3 with the best traits from every generation that's ever existed, what would it look like?

and the resulting homologation special became one of BMW's most iconic models. The E30 M3 continues to be revered by BMW enthusiasts all over the world, who often call it the best driver's car ...

Case in point — the first-ever M3 ... though BMW quickly upped the figure to 215 hp in the Cecotto and Ravaglia special editions. The pinnacle was the 2.5-liter unit in the Sport Evolution ...

First up, there’s a Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evolution II which, admittedly, isn’t strictly a homologation special, rather ...

BMW M Motorsport pulled off a superb double bluff this past April’s Fools Day by revealing that its ‘fake’ M3 Touring GT3 Evo, a station ... speed M Steptronic Sport transmission remains ...

Freelance designer Simon von Broich and his team actually built the BMW M3 Touring GT3 EVO that was intended to be an April Fool’s Day joke.

from the standard 200bhp car in 1986 to 1990’s 230bhp 2.5-litre M3 Evo III. This one is arguably the most special E30 M3 of all. BMW built a limited run of 505 Evo IIs to celebrate the success of its ...

The BMW M3 Sport Evolution, meanwhile, is a bit different, both in terms of approach and provenance. Like the Integrale, the E30 M3 was built to get BMW as close to the sharp end of the DTM grid ...

Among these are two legendary E30 ... BMW 333i from 1987 and two 325i S Evo models from the early 1990s. Completing the Bavarian sextet is a 1972 BMW 3.0 CSL, 1985 M635 CSi, 1988 M5 (E28) and 2005 ...

the M2 remains a reminder that BMW M is still more than capable of delivering on the classic sports coupe recipe it created with the E30 M3. Based on a shortened M4 platform means it’s ...

BMW’s coupe has undercut and outgunned the corresponding 911 since the mid-’90s, when the E36 M3 had 282bhp to the ... setting and switching up to Sport brings more weight to lean into and ...