It's been 25 years back the BMW M3 aboriginal hit the scene. During that time, the car has acquired from a bantamweight fighter able of demography on abundant hitters of the sports car apple to the criterion that the blow of the articulation is measured. In the process, it has afford its bulging, steroid-riddled fenders for smoother sheetmetal and alone its four-cylinder agent for an out of this apple aluminum comminute with alert the pots, but its aspect as a composed sports auto remains.

The transformation wasn't easy. BMW beatific the car through innumerable trials on the advance and trails of the motorsports world, and the beggarly little 3 Series bound accustomed itself as a force to be reckoned with on the grid.

BMW has actual its abandoned child's altogether by account the account of the car's conception. Don't worry: it's a lot beneath abhorrent than alert to your parents yak on about how you came around. The account is abounding with the origins of the car's 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine, including area the engineers managed to antecedent genitalia and the like. It's able-bodied account your time if you've got a second. Check accomplished the jump for the abounding account and the high-res arcade beneath for for the M3's beauteous quarter-century as actual in photos.