For decades now the tip of BMW’s high-performance spear has been the M3, the hottest version of its best-selling sports sedan. Complemented by the M4 coupe (which joined the party in the mid-2010s, ...

I swear, I’m not a manual transmission evangelist, but the 2021 BMW M3 makes it hard not to be. For the vast majority of modern road cars—and crucially, the people who use them—the manual isn’t ...

Pricing—both starting and as tested—parallel each other, as well. BMW requires $73,795 for the basest of the base M3 Comp, while Alfa demands $76,095 to get things started with itsarrabbiataQuad. Our ...

Redesigned last year from the ground up, the M3 is considered the very best sedan in the segment. Available with a manual or automatic transmission and rear- or all-wheel drive, the four-door thriller ...

So far, there have been six BMW M3 generations, starting with the homologation special E30 in 1989 and its 2.3-liter inline-four engine. The second-gen E36 BMW M3 models followed in 1995 with the ...