E30 M3's

[Mike I]

Who else loves them, I so wish I had bought one years ago when I was looking
They have sky rocketed in price recently and continue to get superb reviews as drivers cars
If I hadn't bought my first Saff Cosworth I would have got one of these and wouldn't have ever known the delights of Cossie ownership.
The thing that put me off all those years ago was the left hand drive thing

A couple of friends have had them and they are quite fun cars to drive although not fast in today's traffic.
Like you I toyed with getting one as a daily driver some years back when they were going for 4.5/5k for a rough one - the wife likes the E30 shape and if I could have found one with right hand drive conversion and aircon she would have had it. Sadly like you say they have rocketed in price recently so not as affordable now and as you can get a 328i for a quarter of the price and the rhd conversions only come up rarely I didn't bother.
Used to see quite a few round here as there was a renowened E30 M3 specialist up the road and people would travel countrywide to bring their cars to him.
Had a few forays into Wales in company with my mate's M3 and it was good fun
The E30 M3 steering is a bit slow after driving the Cossie and the brakes don't feel as sharp as on my Sapphire but they do feel good on the road in a raw 'road-racer' way.

I enjoyed the EVO article where they rated the E30 M3 was the best overall M car for 'M'-ness and fun to drive........................but then felt glad I have a Sapphire as it was rated a better driver's car than the E30 M3 by most mags when both cars were tested new

[Craig H]

why CRAIG H , did it fall of the road

your deserve one of these

[MATCOS]

on the first may weekend there was a DTM Reunion from the 90s

including Sierra RS500, BMW M3 E30, Mercedes Benz 190 Evo and so

see some pictures in our forum:

http://www.turbostylez.de/forum/view...php?f=5&t=5477

OMG that is my kind of heaven, every car I have ever lusted after in one place

[Simon]

OMG that is my kind of heaven, every car I have ever lusted after in one place

yes surely!!!

the meeting at the ring was hell nice.

all cars drove around the ring, and the RS500 Sierras were just playing with the naturally aspirated M3's and 190e's .... was very very very cool

[COZZFATHER]

them bmw's were nice cars but tbh the cosworth in a tuned state made them look slow,in touring cars the sierra cosworth made them look boring even though they were great cars.
the rs500 ran rings round them and in rallying the delta celica and even cosworth could beat a m3 no probs. yes that video of me main man patrick snijers is cool and in bmw circles they love that video but he knocked them on the head when he started getting beat by cosworths so that started another era. the history books tell you the m3 weren't as succesfull a rally car as the cosworths.
rallycross m3's got hammered by the mighty fords too

[Mike I]

them bmw's were nice cars but tbh the cosworth in a tuned state made them look slow,in touring cars the sierra cosworth made them look boring even though they were great cars.

Yep, even in standard tune a standard Sapphire seemed to be faster than both my friends 200bhp E30 M3s especially on acceleration - in fact one of them was a 215bhp one and still seemed slower. Guess the Ford's extra torque came into play or Ford ponies are bigger. Handling wise, nothing in it really, a few yards here out the corner, a couple of yards there under braking

[COZZFATHER]

enjoy this video cos its a good un and shows what the cars of the era handled like.

its a trip down memory lane but the cars are so good still.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-IXUlXBk88"]YouTube - BRC'88....6.Manx Rally.[/ame]