Something To Know About the BMW M3
When enthusiasts think German sports cars,they often think BMW M3 , and there's a good reason for that. The M3 came to a life as a race car first and a street car second
Donut Medias latest Up to speed episode focus on the M3 and the traces the ionic sports car's history back to its DMT racing days of the 1980s.DTM requires 5000 road cars to enter the series. Therefore,after Mercedes-Benz showed up to dominate the series ,BMW needed to only build a race car,but a car it could sell to the public. It already had the 3-series,but it needed to throughly enhance the sedan to ensure success
The Story Behind The E30 M3
Enter M,Stands for Motorsport. M threw away all but four body panel from standard 3-Series and reworked almost every vehicle component.It started with the brands ionic inline 6 engine plucked from the M1 supercar but found it a bit too heavy for little sedan. So it lopped off two cylinders and had a working prototype ready in two weeks. Think about that for a second. All of the engineering for what was technically a new engine was finished in two weeks. The 200 horsepower inline 4 decimated at DTM and achieved BMW's goal to shame Mercedes-Benz
Enter M,Stands for Motorsport. M threw away all but four body panel from standard 3-Series and reworked almost every vehicle component.It started with the brands ionic inline 6 engine plucked from the M1 supercar but found it a bit too heavy for little sedan. So it lopped off two cylinders and had a working prototype ready in two weeks. Think about that for a second. All of the engineering for what was technically a new engine was finished in two weeks. The 200 horsepower inline 4 decimated at DTM and achieved BMW's goal to shame Mercedes-Benz
BMW originally estimated it would have a trouble selling 5000 units of the M3,but instead,it sold 18000.The M3 progressive through the E36,E46,E90/92 and today F80 generation. The E46 generation sold some 85,000 units. That's a far from the 5000 BMW didn't think it could sell in the beginning.
Up to day,The M3 remain a driver choice in the sport sedan pack despite countless rivals
Do nut Media makes the point that the M3 hasn't necessary forged new technology, but it has just excelled at being at great car. That makes the M3 very essences of BMWs longtime ethos the Ultimate driving Machine
Do nut Media makes the point that the M3 hasn't necessary forged new technology, but it has just excelled at being at great car. That makes the M3 very essences of BMWs longtime ethos the Ultimate driving Machine
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