Only for that car to be eligible to race in its class and not be classified as a prototype, it needed a road-going equivalent as there was no production-based V8 M3. As the M3 GTR V8’s unveiling ...

The M3 GTR was the first BMW to feature a V-8 engine, producing 444 horsepower in the race version and 350 horsepower in the road-going version. The M3 GTR had a short-lived but impressive ...

And the story of the M3 GTR is fascinating too. It was a controversial race car, banned after just one season because it used a racing engine not found in the M3 road car called the P60b40.

Consequently, the engineering team also assembled a Strassenversion (Street Version) that became the most outrageous road-going E36 ever created. Like its track sibling, the street-legal M3 GTR ...

Honestly, I would imagine a mint M3 GTR would fetch more than that if one hit the market today, so it might not have been the worst investment. BMW does have one of the road cars storage ...

This is no road-going E46 M3 either, and it’s the #42 BMW E46 M3 GTR that was raced by Jörg Müller and J.J. Lehto in 2001. Not only is this a legitimate M3 GTR, but it won both the 2001 ALMS ...

But arguably the most iconic vehicle comes from “Most Wanted.” Having the BMW M3 GTR, wearing its graceful blue and silver livery, is a flex every time gamers fire up their twenty-year-old ...

“One of the reasons is a very special BMW M model driven in the game by the main antagonist, Clarence Callahan, aka ‘Razor’: a BMW M3 GTR from 2001. Its striking silver-blue design, brute ...