Bmw m3 (e92)

Six-cylinder, rear-wheel-drive compact coupés from BMW are things of joy. 3.0 CSL? Wunderbar. E46 M3? Fantastisch. 1 Series M? Ja! But today, BMW makes you spring for a full-fat M2 if you want a new o

ASKING £94,950 PRICE

Let’s ignore for a moment all the clichés about Italian reliability. If you’ve got M2 CS money, you can probably afford to run a Maserati with a highly strung Ferrari V8. Thanks to a crossplane crank,

BMW M135 £43,740 OTR/£54,050 as tested/£602 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: It’s about time BMW had a hot hatch worthy of the M badge again DRIVER: jethro bovingdon THE M135 LEFT ME QUITE unexpectedly. It was plan

The V8 came of age in the USA, but historically America has by no means been its only home, nor the source of some of its greatest exponents. British car makers also saw the layout’s appeal, and while

Try finding another one of these, muses Sam Dawson as he tests a very rare example of BMW’s earliest hot 5 Series