E46

There’s a Guinness World Record for practically anything that you can think of, with some stranger than others. Relevant examples include a record for the longest usable golf club, biggest yo-yo, longest fingernails, spinning a…

Slapping a turbocharger on a naturally aspirated engine is the fastest way to unlock considerably more power. Just ask Viktor, a Bulgarian fellow who bought a BMW E46 that had been modified by its previous…

Luxury automakers are typically the ones offering weird options for their high-end vehicles. Such is the case with BMW and its obscure solar roof for the E46. Yes, the 3 Series sold from the late…

This new G80-generation BMW M3 is the sixth generation, marking more than thirty years of M3. In that thirty-year span, its six generations of cars were all incredibly different from each other, despite all having…

BMW is no stranger to pickups based on the 3 Series, having built an M3 E30 pickup in 1986 and an E92-based truck a decade ago. A couple of years ago, the X7 fullsize luxury…

I recall being invited to the launch of the BMW E46 3 Series Coupe back in 1998 (coupe, sedan versions launched in 1997) and how this new Coupe was the next best 3 Series to…

I still remember rushing home from school to read Motor Trend, Car and Driver, and Road and Track magazines, knowing they’d shown up at my door that month. While I’d eventually read every single page,…

We love reading these sorts of retro-reviews from the likes of Car and Driver, Motor Trend and Road & Track. As enthusiasts, we tend to look back on older cars with rose-tinted glasses, letting nostalgia…

This new G80 BMW M3 is one of the most polarizing BMWs in history. It’s right up there with the “Bangle Butt” E65 BMW 7 Series and buck-toothed BMW X7. But the real question is;…

So, when I sat down to start working on this article, I struggled to find the right way to start. How do you introduce a legend? The BMW E46 M3 debuted twenty years ago and…