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Ken Block's Gymkhana videos are proof of the amazing tributes to hoonage that can be created when you have a full race team, a professional camera crew and plenty of money from your sponsors to throw around. We're pretty sure this Polish hoon fest was created without any of these things, but it came out pretty cool anyways. More »
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Know what's awesome? BMW's art cars, which combine huge artist's names with bright colors and plenty of Ms. Know what else is awesome? E30 M3s that still get raced. That means this car, built by a Jalopnik reader and destined for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, will blow your mind. More »
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Few cars have established themselves as epochal and overshadowing of both predecessor and inheritor as has BMW's E30 3-Series. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 325i looks amazing, but will its price and salvage title make it less than epic? More »
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Rimac Automobili, the Croatian car builder that brought us the blisteringly fast electric BMW E30, is planning to show their first electric vehicle concept to the world at this week's Frankfurt Motor Show. According to the manufacturer their all electric supercar will produce 1088 horsepower and 2800 ft/lbs of immediately available torque. More »
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There are cool craigslist finds and then there are vehicles found on craigslist so bizarre and fantastic it is nearly impossible to resist the temptation of purchasing them. Clearly this E30-amino project for $1900 currently listed on Tulsa, OK craigslist falls into the second category. More »
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If you wanted a sporty three series BMW in the early 90s but didn't have an M3 budget, the 318is was the Bimmer for you. After disappearing from the BMW lineup for the second part of the 80s, the four cylinder 318 returned for 1990 bringing with it the new IS model. As this classic ad points out, what was once just the entry level BMW had become the entry level BMW with a vengeance. More »
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Props to whomever this gentlemen is for not only doing truly epic donuts in his BMW E30, but for ghost-donuting his car. Do not try this at home, you don't have the skills. More »
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I don't know what the bike is, but the car is no less than a BMW E30 with a Skyline GT-R RB26 swap doing a wicked burnout while being jumped. It's the kind of mad collision of disparately awesome factors that make life worth living and Baseketball such a surprisingly funny movie. More »
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Everyone's always on Kanye's jock for showing up at Cannes driving a SLR Stirling Moss or using a Tatra in "Runaway," but is PBR&B'er Frank Ocean actually the cooler car guy? More »
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Some of the coolest vehicles ever made were never offered for sale in the US. Whether it was a perceived lack of interest, an inability to pass crash testing, or something else entirely, we've missed out on some unbelievable cars. Even if these cars can be imported after 25 years, it is often expensive and logistically challenging to do so. This weekend we are giving you a chance to (theoretically) right that wrong. What car should have been sold new in the US but wasn't? More »
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Bill Caswell made history a year ago when his old, thrown-together $500 Craigslist BMW triumphed over $400K race cars to make the podium at the WRC Rally Mexico. For Caswell, our story about his exploits changed his life and made him a semi-star. More »
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Successfully redesigning a car is no small task. While it's easy to come up with examples of vehicles that were great in their first generation and not so great in their second, this week we want to know what vehicle not only managed to avoid the sophomore slump, but was an actual improvement. What car's second generation was better than the first? More »
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When we wrote up Bill Caswell's exploits as the $500 Craigslist rally driver we never expected it to be one of the year's biggest stories. Bill's still got the E30, but he's since upgraded his shop crew. More »
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Seeing this shot from Rudskogen Motorsenter, Norway's national motorsport facility, we are again reminded that hooning an old BMW is truly universal. (Photo Credit: Arild Andersen) More »
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Spotted at the BMW Museum, these five cars span a good portion of the company's race history. While it's easy to see a family resemblance, every car has its own unique features. We'll take one of each. (Photo Credit: Motoyen) More »
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Sure to bring some warmth to these short and cold December days, this 1988 BMW 325i Commercial is half suggestive sun screen endorsement and half E30 sales pitch. Nothing like 80s BMWs and sun worship to cure the winter blues. 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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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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Rallying's a test of nerves, grip, and the ability to follow directions screamed at you seconds before their application. For this reason, it's probably not a great idea to have a telephone pole in the middle of a rally stage. 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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In the 2009 flick Splice, two scientists discover that their monster's new genes make her ass look stingy. Today's NIce Price or Crack Pipe E30 Touring is also a piecemeal affair, but at least its DNA is all BMW. More »
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Bill Caswell, Jalopnik's $500 Craigslist rally-car driver, competed in last weekend's New England Forest Rally. He crashed his car. Because you guys seem to like this sort of thing, we've assembled a gallery of shots from the weekend. Viva crapcan! More »
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In the Middle East, eight women have banded together to race cars against men in a notoriously male-dominated society. They call themselves the Speed Sisters. They are pretty amazing. More »
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This was the cockpit of Bill Caswell's $500 Craigslist rally car yesterday morning. After nearly killing himself in Mexico, Caswell decided, apropos of nothing, to enter the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. Godspeed, Billy boy! Don't fall off the hill! 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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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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Like the precedent 2002, the E30 BMW is well loved for its simple shape and honest performance. However, about today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 325i it can simply be said that its E36 transplant makes it honestly better. 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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2.3 liters, 4 cylinders, 16 valves, 4 throttle bodies, 197 HP. That's all the E30 M3 needed to become a legend. Sit back, turn your speakers up and bask in 10 minutes of light is right. More »
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Last week, we told you the amazing story of how Bill Caswell took a $500 Craigslist BMW to a World Rally Championship event. Now a Jalopnik reader has dropped the car into Forza Motorsport 3. Wanna drive it? More »
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The first-generation BMW M Coupe is a raw, angry sort of beast, the kind of asylum-think car we cannot help but love. It's a machine devoted solely to the art of being bonkers. Let's take a look at its credentials. 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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The RS Owners Club story begins with an amazing find: an E30 M3 with just 37 miles, yet concludes with something even more amazing: a second E30 M3 with 57 miles and, wait for it, a Ford RS200. 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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One week ago, I rediscovered pictures I took inside BMW's closed-to-the-public motorsport museum. Those images were four years old, however, and their pron was limited. Now someone has YouTubed an off-the-cuff video tour of the same building. McLaren overload, anyone? More »
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Time and distance are great equalizers. Wait long enough, and eventually cars may fall into your price range. Nice Price or Crack Pipe has been pretty patient, and now has an E30 M3 that may have been worth the wait. More »
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