I bet my M3 doesnt cost much more than a sport to maintain!! All parts these days from GSF/ECP are pretty good value so it is pretty cheap to maintain an M3gortour wrote:The decision really depends on your use of the car.
If you are doing high ish mileage, using daily etc (and where do you park it?) go for the Sport.
If it's a 2nd car, lowish mileage etc, why not get the M3.
Also how hard do you drive? Do you NEED the extra the M3 gives, and can you justify the much higher running costs, insurance, parts, servicing, and will you be happy with LHD?
Your choice ultimately, and you need to be happy with what you buy, but unless it's a 2nd car / toy, I'd go Sport every time.
(Though my choice would be Sport anyway, as I don't drive hard enough to warrant an M3, I love the noise of the straight 6 on song, and the gearstick on the right would drive me NUTS..., though I am left-handed...)
E30 325i Sport or E30 M3
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Exactly!!maxfield wrote:Spending 3k on a 2.7 might get close to M3 power. But then what about handling and braking? An M3 will eat a sport or an alpina on the track for breakfast.pnd wrote:i don't remember m3's being that quick (mind you its years since I went in one) Surely £3k would build a decent 2.7 or alternatively £6k will buy a nice alpina.
At Donington the E30 M3 boys were having Lancer Evos purely because they were better at handling and braking.
You may not think so but out of the esses they would be behind us and only start catching up at the Dunlop bridge but by that time they would have to start thinking about how the f**k they would get round the next bend!
Ok the M3 isnt THAT fast as a standard road car but it is a road adapted race car. So, as most have done, undo some of the badness that was done by BMW and unleash some of that power!!
Get a nice pair of Shrick cams, decent pipe, remap, carbon airbox and alpha N and you'll be knocking on the door of 250bhp....coupled with a 3.64 diff.
It might cost a few quid but christ isnt that what its all about!
Ive had mine for 5 years and done all that bar the carbon airbox and theres not many cars that will beat me on any road other than motorway!!
Get a nice pair of Shrick cams, decent pipe, remap, carbon airbox and alpha N and you'll be knocking on the door of 250bhp....coupled with a 3.64 diff.
It might cost a few quid but christ isnt that what its all about!
Ive had mine for 5 years and done all that bar the carbon airbox and theres not many cars that will beat me on any road other than motorway!!