History of the BMW M3

This 2015 will be the 30th anniversary of the birth of the one who is probably the most iconic of BMW in terms of sportiness: the BMW M3. Five generations of this car have been developed, improving technical aspects, aesthetic and of course, dynamic.

All generations of the BMW M3

despite the fact that the BMW 3 Series has six generations behind her back, the BMW M3 was built for the first time from the second (e30). Since then, the trend has been clear, and when it was thought that it was impossible to improve the car, came a new generation to demonstrate that that was not true at all.

however, when a car as iconic, the fans have been divided between lovers of a generation in particular, but one thing is clear: every BMW M3 has a bit of history that deserves to be known, at least by hearsay, by any enthusiast of the car. Each day we’ll talk about a generation:

BMW M3 e30 (1985)
BMW M3 e36 (1992) – 12/11/2015
BMW M3 e46 (2000) – 13/11/2015
BMW M3 e90 (2007) – 14/11/2015
BMW M3 f80 (2014) – 15/11/2015

Also we bring to you an interesting table where you can to compare the technical data of all the generations and get to know some interesting facts, as it has increased its weight, its dimensions or as the units sold of the third generation (e46) add up to almost the same as the sales of the first and second joints.

	M3 e30	M3 e36	M3 e46	M3 e90	M3 f80
Length (m)	4’34	4’43	4’49	4’58	4’67
Width (m)	1’68	1’69	1’78	1’81	1’87
Height (m)	1’37	1’36	1’37	1’44	1’42
Battle (m)	2’56	2’71	2’73	2’76	2’81
Tracks/After (m)	1’41/1’43	1’42/1’43	1’50/1’52	1’54/1’53	1’57/1’60
empty Weight (Kg)	1.200	1.460	1.570	1.605	1.520
Trunk (l)	420	435	410	450	480
Deposit (l)	70	62	63	63	60
the Front (cc)	2.302	3.201	3.246	3.999	2.979
Power CV	200	321	343	420	431
Pair máximo	240	350	365	400	550
0-100 km/h (s)	6’7	5’5	5’2	4’9	4’3
V. máxima	235	250	250	250	250
Consumption medio	8’3	8’7	13’4	12’4	8’8
Units vendidas	17.960	71.242	85.139	57.627	—

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