The E30 BMW M3 remains the winningest, or most successful, road-racing touring car ever made, dominating Group A and DTM. It ...

The E30-generation BMW 3-Series has been elevated from used-car status to the lofty ranks of the collector car market. Even beat-up, high-mileage examples, which could be had for a song 10 years ago, ...

As company historians explain, BMW Motorsport thought the M3 would make a great parts hauler at the campus of what became the M division. They started with the body from a convertible 3 Series and ...

Garret Donahue, a Southern California native, has been involved in car culture for the majority of his life. From organizing local group drives to attending open track days, Garret dives deep into the ...

Many enthusiasts believe the E30 to be one of the greatest BMWs ever built. That's quite a compliment, as it concerns one of Europe's top marques that was founded in 1917 and has produced such lauded ...

Although it has excellent specs and an exaggeratedly high price, it's not a sleek new M3 Touring; it's a 1985 323i E30 offered by a car dealer in Austria. It has incredibly low mileage. Supposedly the ...

BMW never put a V8 in the E30-generation 3-Series, but that hasn't stopped owners from swapping in engines of their own. This car in particular has been treated to a new powertrain courtesy of a 5.0 ...

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 be ...

The BMW M3 is an iconic staple of automotive, motorsports, and sports car history. It's been that way for nearly 40 years. Since the introduction of the first M3 in the mid-1980s, BMW's iconic sports ...

Ask most people to name the definitive small sports sedan from the 1980s and they’ll almost certainly namecheck the second-generation BMW 3-series, codenamed E30, which just so happens to be ...