Video: There’s no substitution for BMW’s E30 Mmmmm3

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If you told someone that you had a friend with a four-cylinder BMW who “would let me wash the car,” and in exchange for the privilege then let you drive that clean BMW once around the block, your first question would probably be “What kind of BMW is this?” There’s a chance you wouldn’t be surprised once you found out the coupe in question was the E30 M3, a car our own Zach Bowman dubbed the “Mmmmm3.”

Petrolicious talks to Gabor Mester about the car he fell in love with, a black version of the original “Munich mauler” that was owned by the parents of a high-school friend – oh, and Mester was also in high school when this washing and driving took place. When the original owners were ready to sell, Mestor was ready to buy, and he hasn’t had a single regret about it since.

You can enjoy his story in his words in the video below.

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Video: Over 11 minutes of BMW 1 Series M Coupe and E30 M3 hotness

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BMW 1 Series M Coupe and E30 M3 – Click to watch the video after the jump

The beauty of the BMW 1 Series M Coupe isn’t that the bean-counters let their best performance engineers have at the smallest car in the range. The real beauty is that the car goes back to the very roots of the M division, before the M3 went all V8 on us and took a hefty weight penalty in the process.

To illustrate the point, BMW took the new coupe out to the track, and brought along its spiritual predecessor, the original E30 M3. Fortunately for us, they filmed the encounter – all 11 and a half minutes of it. And while half of it is stock promotional footage, there’s a good few minutes of on-track action spliced in for good measure. Check it out in the video after the jump.

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