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BMW M3 Celebrating 20 Years of a Sporting Legend
For 20 years the BMW M3 has been the by-word for race-bred on road excellence in a compact car.
Over three generations, the legend has gone from strength to strength, beginning as a four-cylinder two-door coupe and flowering into a mighty six-cylinder naturally aspirated Coupé, Sedan and Convertible, the envy of the world.
As popular with fast road drivers as it was successful on track, the M3 legend was born of humble beginnings but has grown to a position of majesty.
Much copied, never matched in its purity of performance, function, and understated yet distinctive styling, the M3 today is as much in demand by enthusiasts as ever, as critically acclaimed as never before, and undoubtedly the benchmark for a plethora of would-be rivals.
Powered by a 252 kW, 3.2-litre high-technology, high-revving straight-six engine, now shared with the just launched Z4 M Roadster and the soon-to-arrive Z4 M Coupé, the 2006 M3 celebrates its 20th birthday in trade-mark understated style.
How the legend was born
The sentence has become a legend: “Mr. Rosche”, said the BMW Chairman sometime around the beginning of the 1980s, almost as an aside to his engine designer, “we need a sporty engine for the Three Series.” Eberhard von Kuenheim knew exactly who he was motivating to take action:
Paul Rosche was not only the engineering managing director of M GmbH, he was also the father of the turbo engine which had powered Nelson Piquet to victory in the 1983 World Championship, driving a Brabham BMW. And as far as Rosche was concerned, a sporty car had to do one thing: win. That was when the M3 was born.
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