BMW Cars

BMW is the Bavarian engineering firm that taught the rest of the industry how to build a sport sedan. The 2002 of the 1960s started the formula. The E30 of the 1980s perfected it. The E36, E46, E90, and F30 generations of 3-Series each iterated on the same idea: small, balanced, rear-drive sedan with an inline six and a manual gearbox, fast enough to be exciting and refined enough to live with daily. The M division is the soul of the brand. The E30 M3 (1986-1991) is one of the most successful touring car race cars ever built and is now worth more than most modern supercars. The E46 M3 (2000-2006) with its naturally aspirated S54 inline six revving to 8,000 rpm is widely considered the perfect M3. The E92 M3 (2007-2013) used a 4.0 liter S65 V8 and is the only V8 M3 ever produced. The current M3 and M4 use the S58 twin-turbo inline six and continue the lineage with more weight and more power than ever. Outside the M3 line, the M5 has gone through six generations across more than three decades of supercar-fast luxury sedans. The M2 is the modern enthusiast pick, a smaller, more focused car that recovers some of the analog character lost in the larger M cars. The Z3 M Coupe and Z4 M Coupe (the "clown shoe" body style) are cult favorites. The 1 Series M Coupe of 2011 is one of the rarest and most loved modern M cars. On WhipJury, BMW submissions span every M generation, plus E30 325is and 318is, E36 and E46 328i and 330i builds, E60 5-Series tuning projects, and modern M2/M3/M4 examples. The community here knows the chassis codes deeply.