Vehicle Type Performance Sedan / Coupe / Convertible History/Description Lusted after by fans of high-strung, German-engineered performance cars, the BMW M3 entered its fourth generation for model year 2007, packing, for the first time, a V8 engine. Not just any V8 engine, either, but a wound-up, hand-built, 4.0L beastie cranking out a g

There’s no doubt the new-for-2018 BMW M3 CS is a special car, but only slightly moreso than an already special M3. It’s not easy to find performance improvements in an impressively athletic BMW M3 – yet the CS (for Competition Series) is slightly lighter, slightly quicker, and slightly more aggressive looking. And unfortunately, more than slightly

BMW's iconic E30 M3, the first generation of 3 series-based M car, was sold in North America for just four years. From 1988 to 1991, just over 5,000 were sold between Canada and the US, with 185 produced for Canada. While those are small production numbers, that represented nearly a third of all E30 M3s sold worldwide. Charting the BMW M3 Chang

The latest limited edition M3 is here. The M3 CS adds more power, cuts weight, adds grip but maintains luxury. This one fits in the lineup just above the M3 Competition Package, and gets most of the changes from the two-door M4 CS. The 3.0L twin-turbo inline six gets a power bump to 460 hp. That's 10 over the Competition Package and 28 more than

BMW has revealed that its forthcoming sixth-generation M3 sport sedan will share its engine and drivetrain with the recently announced X3/X4 M compact SUVs -- and come standard with all-wheel drive and an automatic transmission. The announcement comes from BMW M's product planning boss, Carsten Pries, who spoke to the UK's Evo Magazine. He confi

Photos courtesy of BMW and by Brendan McAleer Each morning the challengers come, and each evening they fall. The king of speed rules absolute and iron-handed over a kingdom of tarmac, picking up his broadsword every time a fiefdom gets out of line. In his youth, he was a bantamweight fencer, then a brawler, now wielding a twin-turbocharged h

Welcome to Depreciation Appreciation! Every month, your pals at autoTRADER.ca dig up an instance of how depreciation can make for an extraordinary used-car deal. This time round, we’re highlighting another used performance car bargain yet again. The subject of this month’s story packs a screamer all-motor V8 engine, discreetly upgraded looks, a

Vehicle Type Performance sedan History/Description BMW launched the latest iteration of its legendary M3 performance car in 2014 – for model year 2015 – with its first-ever turbocharged engine along with new styling, hardware, and a slew of the latest connectivity and safety features. As the highest-performing version of the BMW 3 Series,

The all-new BMW 3 Series sedan and 4 Series coupe aren't getting a manual gearbox this time around. If you wanted the hot versions of these cars, and weren't happy with this news, then we've got some better news for you. The M versions will get that stick. Markus Flasch, CEO of BMW M, spoke with BMW Blog at a recent event in Ontario. He's the

The all-new 2021 BMW M3 sedan and M4 coupe have been unveiled, arriving with a 473-horsepower turbocharged inline-six and, perhaps more notably, some rather unconventional looks. These are performance cars, so we'll get right to the good stuff. Powering the new BMW M3 and M4 is the automaker's new twin-turbocharged inline-six engine, which pro

BMW continues to add models to its already robust product line at a staggering pace, and the 2020 M340i is among the newest in the Canadian stable. It’s not a true M model, but a member of the more approachable M Performance series. Like the M240i and the M550i that came before it, the M340i takes all the goodness of the redesigned 3 Series an

LOS ANGELES – Sunny southern California is probably the perfect place for the world debut of the sexy but environmentally friendly 2019 BMW i8 Roadster. While the stylish roadster adds the joy of wind-in-the-hair motoring, hold on to your hat because with a combined 369 horsepower electric/gasoline drivetrain, the i8 Roadster will sprint from zero

They call them icons for a reason. These cars have legions of followers, and sometimes can carry an entire company's reputation by themselves. Fans of both brand and breed await anxiously to see what the next generation looks like – and sometimes the consensus is, new might not necessarily be improved. Here are five picks of the best generations

Mostly, it’s the glasses. On the silver screen, a pair of thick-framed specs is good enough to disguise Superman as Clark Kent, so to the audience they’re sufficient as shorthand for Nerd. Usually it’s some well-known actress, dressed down and fitted with the Steve Urkel look, ready to be transformed near the end with a hair-flip and some slow, swe

It was almost as if BMW felt it had something to prove. A couple dozen automotive journalists from across Canada and the United States were invited to the BMW Performance Center West at the Thermal Club race complex near Palm Springs, California, where an extensive collection of current BMW Group vehicles would be made available to drive. Many o