M POWER TO THE PEOPLE
The best performance machinery from Germany is up there with the best on the planet. I've always been a fan but as my taste matured and I sampled more fast cars from other nations, I saw some validity in the criticism that's often levelled at these machines. They can lack soul. It's an intangible quantity that's often shorthand for flaws. But occasionally a car can be too good. It arrives at a point where driver skill is irrelevant. That's certainly not the case with old M3s. Every generation needs your complete attention and rewards good technique like few other things on four wheels. The new ones are all computer controlled and turbocharged, and fall into the aforementioned competence over engagement trap, but not the classics. With this in mind we decided…
