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Originally Posted by jaehshim
Anyhow, every generation is unique, like the shockingly sporty E30 M3, first silky smooth inline 6 E36 M3 (with first sedan availability), the "Raw" inline-6 most popular E46 with first SMG, and even lighter yet more grunt V8 engined E90/92 M3. And the next one will be a "turbo monster" 6 cylinder M3.
It just makes every generation of M brand unique and worthy of collecting as a benchmark practical sports car.
I just hope that the "practical" part is kept in the next turbo version.
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For everywhere but the US, the E36 M3 had 286 and then 321hp from the 3.0 and 3.2L I6's (with a similar redline to the S54 in the E46 M3) and they had SMG too. So while the E46 was marginally improved over the E36, it was a much, much smaller improvement than any other generation and many folks prefer the E36 dynamics to the E46.