When BMW was getting the E36 3 Series ready, it also wanted to have a smaller version to compete with the hot hatches of the day. Thus, the E36 Compact was born. The body style was primarily designed ...

Garret Donahue, a Southern California native, has been involved in car culture for the majority of his life. From organizing local group drives to attending open track days, Garret dives deep into the ...

16 Dec 2013, 09:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica // Back in the day, the BMW E36 Compact was the car you’d pick if you needed anything like what a 1 Series Coupe offers you today. It was small, cheap an easy ...

The BMW E36 M3 is considered to be one of the better-handling cars of all time, and was awarded "Best-Handling Car" award by Car and Driver magazine in 1997. Available as a saloon, a coupe or a ...

This is part two of our continuing Living Legends series, where we take a retrospective look at the cars that have, by hook or by crook, managed to withstand the test of time. The first part of this ...

In the US, the E36 M3 sort of lives in the shadow of its predecessor, the legendary E30. In Europe, the story is a little different. There, the M3 got a real BMW Motorsport engine, the 282-hp S50 ...

BMW never sold the 286-hp E36 M3 in the US, but a handful of examples made it to Canada. Hagerty tells the story of how just 45 Euro-spec E36 M3s quietly ended up in Canada before BMW corporate shut ...

The BMW M3 has gone through plenty of huge design changes over the past three decades. As the next generation of the M3 and M4 are set to arrive very soon — stay tuned for that — with another seismic ...

The E36 is the second generation of M3 and came to the United States from 1995 to 1999. Most are coupes, although sedan versions were made from 1997 (when the auto transmission option disappeared from ...