Friday 6th February 2015

BMW M3 evolution: Pic Of The Week

BMW goodness for your desktop; hopefully M's new boss downloads it for his computer too

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PHers love an M car but given the reception for new boss of the tuning division Franciscus van Meel he's going to have to work a little harder to feel that affection personally. OK, so he's still new to the job and we interviewed him on the launch event for the X6 M so we'll forgive him for toeing the company line on four-wheel drive. But with his Audi history and apparent enthusiasm for traction uber alles talk of four-wheel drive M cars, hybrids and the death of manual M cars unsurprisingly met with a frosty response on these pages.

We're here to help though and with this week's desktop image available to download hopefully van Meel can add it to his own homescreen to remind him of the kind of stuff M fans really hold dear.

Traditional (4:3)
Computer widescreen (16:10)
TV widescreen (16:9)
Portrait (smartphone, etc)

 

 

[presidentnixon]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 06 February 2015 at 11:27

[anonymous-user]

Mmm the E46 M3 is just the best looking BMW ever.
With my wheels and from very far away I like to pretend I have one

[arun1uk]

Who will be the first to mention it's an M4, not an M3!

[soad]

[Leins]

GravelMachineGun said:

Mmm the E46 M3 is just the best looking BMW ever.
With my wheels and from very far away I like to pretend I have one

It's a very good looking car, perhaps only diminished in recent years by ubiquity, but the E30 M3 still trumps it in the looks department for me

[xRIEx]

GravelMachineGun said:

Mmm the E46 M3 is just the best looking BMW ever.
With my wheels and from very far away I like to pretend I have one

It is a very clean, classic (but timeless) and well-resolved design.

[soad]

Leins said:

It's a very good looking car, perhaps only diminished in recent years by ubiquity, but the E30 M3 still trumps it in the looks department for me

Especially this one.

[Tomatogti]

arun1uk said:

Who will be the first to mention it's an M4, not an M3!

Er, you!

[arun1uk]

Tomatogti said:

Er, you!

Er, woooooooooooooooosh!;)

[Busso GTA]

The circle is not in chronological order it is making me want burn things

[Oddball RS]

Picture makes no sense BMW, a nice collection of M3's with an M4 stuck in the foreground?!?!? You can't have it both ways Mr PR men..............

[Leins]

soad said:

Especially this one.

And this one

Busso GTA said:

The circle is not in chronological order it is making me want burn things

Agreed, and the Sport Evo at the front is out of kilter with the other standard M3s behind

[Patrick Bateman]

e46 comfortably the best looking for me.

[Neil_M]

Busso GTA said:

The circle is not in chronological order it is making me want burn things

Leins said:

Agreed, and the Sport Evo at the front is out of kilter with the other standard M3s behind

LOL me too! My eyes went straight to the E90, what the ...

[Amirhussain]

Nice pic, would be better if it was in order, and a different coloured E90.

[anonymous-user]

There are another pictures with them in the correct order.

Here is one.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3817/14270796686_9c...

Edit:

I'm probably a little biased as to which is the best

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 6th February 17:30

[Leins]

A slightly more extreme line-up of M3s (that exact same Sport Evo though):




The one at the end was the E90 CRT btw. And there were about 50 CSLs behind me at the time of that pic too

[Baryonyx]

The E30, still so good looking.

[CharlieGee]

Dear lord I want an E36. Who's selling?

[daytona365]

In chronological order they get more and more generic and Euro trashy every time a newer model comes out looks wise. With the possible exception of the E46, that still looks pretty sharp. Imo,anyway.

Edited by daytona365 on Friday 6th February 21:13