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This is why we live in the best time for driving. The roads are restricted, gas is expensive and cars are becoming numbing transportation pods, but you can buy a BMW E30 or an Alfa GTV6 for peanuts and go tear up twisting country roads whenever you have a free weekend. More »
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Plush interior, European styling, and seating for five—if that is what you were looking for in a car Hyundai wanted you to believe their Excel for 1988 was the same as a 1988 BMW 325i. Plus it had FWD! More »
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This bizarre photo's been floating around for a while, but was recently reposted on Facebook by Arab Motors TV. What's its deal? Obviously it's not the real Spiderman, because he's in New York City. So it's just a stunt double. Makes sense. It's for a stunt show. More »
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Bill Caswell, Jalopnik's very own $500 Craigslist rally driver, as part of POSRacing's F'ed-Up Express BMW E30, just won the Arse Freeze-a-Palooza LeMons race at Buttonwillow Raceway Park. Sure, it ain't Baja, but it'll do. [Facebook] More »
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This footage of 1988 Rally Isle of Man (formerly Manx International Rally) winner Patrick Snijers shows an unbelievable amount of driving skill. Best of all, there is no music to block out his screaming BMW E30 M3 engine. More »
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We dropped by Bill Caswell's outpost at SEMA, where he's building a Baja truck from a BMW E30 at the Miller Electric Manufacturing booth. Only two weeks before the race, and the car's still a bare frame, but who's worried? More »
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BMW fanatic Dave at r3vlimited was halfway through his two-year project to restore a BMW E30 3-series to its glory days when he returned to his garage to find everything stolen, ready to be resold. Can you help? — Ed. More »
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Bill Caswell and his $500 Craigslist rally car have a new challenge: the Baja 1000. Caswell's heading to SEMA, welding together a Baja E30, then heading to Mexico. He took a break from construction to share his plans with Jalopnik. More »
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BMW E30s — 3 series models made from 1982-1994 (for those who don't speak Bimmer) — are cool. E30s that run 12 second ¼ miles are cooler. Electric-powered E30s that run 12 second ¼ miles are very cool. More »
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I love the BMW E30. If you read this site, you probably love it too. Here’s a great little homebrew video of one, in a genre which used to be called “road test” before Top Gear came along. More »
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Icelanders may have been among the biggest losers of the financiapocalypse, but a couple banks down the drain sure didn’t snuff out their love of interesting cars. Take this BMW E30, for instance. More »
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The 29th race in LeMons history took place last weekend, and we saw BMW tie Toyota for second place in the overall-win category (Mazda holds seven LeMons titles versus five apiece for BMW and Toyota). More »
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The weather was about what you'd expect for South Carolina in May, mechanical failures stacked up dead cars like cordwood, and the Penalty Box had plenty of clients. But some cars neither blew up nor spun out. More »
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The 24 Hours of LeMons has a way of making otherwise-normal racers eyeball a BMW, then pick up the cutting torch and the 5-gallon bucket-o-Bondo. Longtime Jalopnik reader LTDScott has turned the already awesome "Pricks Outside" Porcubimmer into… ChriPrickstine! More »
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The LeMons race season has entered a particularly crazy stretch, due to the break triggered by Chief Perp Lamm's wedding, and so we have races on back-to-back weekends. Here are the results from last weekend's New Orleans event. More »
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While Eyesore Racing has managed to take three winner-on-laps LeMons trophies, we never believed any other team could do it more than once. We were proved wrong today, when the Texas-winning Race Hard Race Ugly BMW 325iS triumphed. More »
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In past races, those Cajun chefs have been more proficient with the seasonings than with the steering wheel. Black flags aplenty! Not this time, though— we started the day with their two E30s in the top ten. Then, disaster! More »
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Some guys do things just to make other people cringe. Engineer Christian Newman decided to do it with an eye-searingly greenish-yellow, carbon-fiber and kevlar-infused E30 BMW with a transplanted Nissan GT-R straight six. His reward? Scorn, and 286 WHP. More »
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ESPN magazine talked to Bill Caswell, the man behind our $500 Craigslist rally car story, to get the skinny on what he needed to make it happen. He's also on the network's blog. Here's what it takes, kids. More »
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Professional motorsport is a cold, hard place. If you want to run with the big dogs, you can't just build a car in your mom's garage and show up, right? Wrong. One guy did just that. Here's his amazing story. More »
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A wild day at the Sears Pointless 24 Hours of LeMons… so wild, in fact, that I couldn't get a complete standings list before the other LeMons carnies hosed out the Tilt-a-Whirl and hopped a freight out of town. More »
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The folks at LeMons HQ have become quite weary of the BMW E30. However, it remains possible to get your allegedly 500-buck E30 into even the most overcrowded race. How? Do what Team Special Deliverance did and Ford Ranchero-ize it! More »
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The 1988 E30 was a fine car, but 24 grand for the base 325 coupe? The Hyundai Excel did everything just as well as the E30- everything Hyundai felt was important, that is- and its price tag was $5,499. More »
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A world apart from bestickered American rally professionals with comic-book names, we join the the snow drifters of Hungary, who like it cold, fast, and loud. More »
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Everyone knows that BMW E30s and Mazda Miatas tend to get plenty of unwelcome attention from the LeMons Supreme Court... so here's a way for a resourceful team to capitalize on the loathing! More »
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The first BumperCam, an ancient Kodak bolted to the rear bumper of a LeMons Volvo, took good photos but its large size made it vulnerable to crash damage. Not so with BumperCam II, survivor of three punishing races! More »
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It's a chilly morning here at Firebird International Raceway, and the surviving 18 or so cars have returned to the track to duke it out for the prospect of LeMons glory. More »
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Everyone figured that Eyesore Racing's Ghettocharged Miata Miata would be the car to beat at the Auction Weekend Gavel-Tap, and that's how it's sorting out. More »
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The Corvette LS1's a great engine, the E30 BMW 3-Series is a great chassis, but they were never meant to go together, right? That didn't stop a pair of maniac motorheads from doing it. Here's how to build one yourself. More »
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Tired as we are of the BMW E30 in LeMons (second in popularity only to the Civic/CRX/Integra), we're forced to admit that the E30 has proven to be a pretty decent cheap endurance racer. If you start the race with an E30, you've got nearly 50-50 odds of keeping it running all weekend. More »
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Tying the old LeMons record from last year's Thunderhill event, three cars flipped over at the '09 Arse Freeze-A-Palooza. In every case the driver suffered zero injuries, which should serve as a counter-argument to those whining about "overkill" rollcage specifications. More »
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Things got pretty chaotic after the race and I've just got time to get you this crucial info before I board my flight back to California: the second-ever BMW E30 has won a LeMons race! More »
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Working a 24 Hours Of LeMons race is exhausting, to put it mildly, so the LeMons HQ crew always seeks out the best pit party after a day's race session. The choice was easy last night! More »
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Internet access is difficult at best here at Nelson Ledges, so live updates are going to be few and short. At the moment, the Charlie Foxtrot Racing BMW 325i leads. More »
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Remember the very special stencil we use on LeMons E30s? LeMons 300ZX driver and artist Walker Canada has worked his magic on my original design, and it looks great! More »
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In this series, we'd like to honor the engines that were made in vast quantities and/or remained in front-line service for decades (in addition to low-production Ass-Kickin' Engines), and the BMW "Little Six" definitely qualifies. More »
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Perhaps because Hungarians use the Eastern name order like most of Asia, there is a very healthy local drifting scene. Watch this incredible clip of a recent meet. More »
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As everyone who follows our 24 Hours Of LeMons coverage knows, we're all getting tired of the vast numbers of BMW E30s at the races. What to do? Give 'em the mark of shame! More »
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As always, there was no shortage of BMW E30s at the last LeMons race, but we also saw representatives of British Leyland, German subsidiaries of the Detroit Big Three, and a whole squadron of Saabs. More »
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Here it is, the moment of carnage for Team Salazar Racing's E30 BMW 3-Series. With an overwhelming display of hatred from the other LeMons racers, the people elected the blue and white Bimmer as "The People's Curse." Cheaters beware, this is the fate that awaits you! More »
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