Acceleration times only tell half the story though, and the M3 is an astonishingly fast car with such huge reserves of torque that its performance is always available and only a twitch of your rig ...

From the fine-handling E30 original to the sensational V8-powered E90, there wasn’t a generation of M3 that didn’t hit the spot. And then along came this, the no-E-numbers-please F80.

The car was damaged in a crash in early 2022 before being totally transformed into an M3. In addition to rocking an F80 M3 powertrain, the car has M3 suspension and brakes. Dixon Motorsports in ...