Could a fully optioned E30 325i be a budget alternative to a period M3? Alan Anderson thinks that it just might be…

WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT To see whether a modernised 2005 car can be better than a new one The last time I ran a 2005-model-year long-term test car was, more or less, in 2005. But here we are again. This

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IF YOU WANT to explain the BMW M3 Touring, daredevil Evel Knievel probably put it best when he said: “I’m not a jack of all trades; I’m a master of many.” Indeed, while the M3 Touring doesn’t overly c

Earning an executive saloon as a company car was a career milestone at the turn of the millennium, and in 2001 Jaguar’s X-TYPE took aim at BMW’s class-defining 3-Series. We revisit a boardroom battle from the boom years