America’s E36 M3 Missed Out On The Best Engine, So Someone Built One Instead

In the mid-1990s, American BMW enthusiasts had good reason to feel upset. They could look across the pond and see that European counterparts were getting a highly sophisticated six-cylinder engine for their E36-generation M3. Stateside, BMW was only offering a far simpler and much cheaper engine for the US M3, apparently to match its consumer research.