Max Reisböck was a simple man with a simple dream. The BMW engineer wanted to take his family on vacation, but back in the 1980s, his car — a 3-Series sedan — was too small for their luggage. So he set out to fix this problem himself.

You already know Bill Caswell, whose $500 Craigslist Car Rally story is the second most popular post in Jalopnik history.

It's not a howler monkey in a blender. I'ts not a screaming alien. It's the newest BMW to wear the highly unofficial crown of "world's gnarliest E30."

Take one hugely powerful ice racing Camaro. Line it up against a classic E30 M3. Put them on a snow-covered dirt track. Who's faster?

We love when drivers take jumps sideways. This 318i rally driver hangs the tail out from start to finish, only it doesn't look like the he means to.

What’s faster: a 1980s BMW 325ix, or…a Leopard tank? One TV show tried to find out.

After today's buyer's guide, you might wonder what it would be like to actually drive a BMW E30 M3 every day. Well, here's a first person account.

You missed out on the massive BMW E30 M3 appreciation-fest of the 2000s — during which prices catapulted upward, by percentage, more than the Elephant Man's eye teeth. But with prices flattening, perhaps just temporarily, now may be the best time to secure your piece of Bayerische Motoren history. Ten years on, mark…

There are a lot of reasons you should read the New York Times Magazine profile of nascent R&B superstar Frank Ocean. It gives some great insights into the creative process, decisiveness, and personal history of the man behind the best album of 2012, Channel Orange. (If you think differently, you're wrong.)

I don't think there's a better example of good, clean, wholesome fun than driving around an empty parking lot at speed. You can do it in any kind of car, and you can even get your friends and family involved for extra good times.