On this episode of Ignition, Carlos Lago is back and driving all four generations of his favorite German sports car, the BMW M3! Through 28 years of evolution, from E30 to E36 to E46 to E90, has the M3 lost its edge?
Watch as DLSJ5′s E92 M3 with ESS VT3 Supercharger hits 703WHP / 478WTQ STD and 685WHP / 466WTQ SAE on the dyno!
BMW has released the latest M Performance stripes catalog for the 1M coupe, M3, M5, M6, F30 and E92/E93.
BIMMERPOST sponsored the most recent Airstrip Attack taking place on 4/6-4/7, a two day runway shootout race event held at the Coalinga Municipal Airport in Coalinga, California.
These races feature an ESS VT2-625 supercharged M3 vs a GT-R, Z06 and a CTS-V (all modified).
Enjoy a photo journal from another Santorini Blue M3 european delivery, with photos from BMW Welt, Munich, Porsche Museum and the Nurburgring.
Have a look at Powerbeast’s new and improved Dakar Yellow E90 M3, courtesy of IND.
By IND:
How do you take one of the best modified E90 M3s ever created, and make it even better? How do you add to a car nearly any enthusiast would call perfect, without taking the project too far? These are the questions we had to ask ourselves at IND when Felix’s amazing Dakar Yellow BMW Individual M3 arrived at our facility. Although we have all seen photos of this M3 before, and even provided many of the parts already on the car, my heart skipped a beat when this car rolled off of our car transport. Felix is a man of excellent taste, and has already created one of the … CONTINUED
LB Performance, based in Japan, has released images of its E92 M3 wide body kit, which features bolt on wide body fenders and bumpers, front spoiler and trunk wing.
No other specs/details released yet on this widebody kit, but we’ll update when we hear.
The EAS project M3 race car gets a new look and supercharger. The ESS VT2-625 Supercharger replaces the previous VF620 system for 2013.
A couple of shots her show a prototype replacement intake runner was machined in-house and houses the boost pressure and secondary IAT sensor for datalogging/monitoring. Two versions will be released shortly, which will make it easier for thsoe looking for individual-based runner methanol injection or auxiliary sensor mounting.
The EAS M3 also gets new Shoes: Volk TE37SL Black Edition w/ Hankook RS-3 tires.
There is a new limited edition M3 in town… and it is called: Bruno Spengler M3 DTM Champion Edition Model.
To celebrate Bruno Spengler’s fantastic championship win in DTM last year, BMW have built only 54 copies of this rare M3. Why only 54 cars? Simple, one car for every BMW DTM win from 1984 to 2012! Each of the 54 cars will come in frozen black just like Bruno’s DTM racer. The street car comes standard with: special carbon bits, ///M tri color stripes on the exterior, BMW M logo behind the front wheel arch or a logo on the rear side windows also remember – at least visually – the genes from BMW Motorsport. All to give you that “DTM feeling”.
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