There's a new M3 CS imminent - time to remember the best of the breed.
While BMW did itself no favours with the spec of the launch car, and though it costs an enormous amount of money,ought to be a spectacular sports saloon. With more power and a sharper chassis than the already mighty xDrive, the CS promises an awful lot. This is to say nothing of the last CS saloon that was launched in green - the M5. It’s hard to imagine another M car that improves on the Competition model like that CS did, but let’s see - the M3 could be another icon. Just an odd looking one.
When a storied badge returns to a bootlid, it’s inevitable to browse the back catalogue to recall the greatest hits. The last M3 and M4 CS were the best models of that generation - if very expensive - with just enough extra edge to feel a proper step up from the Comp. And they looked brilliant. The M3 before that didn’t get a CS, but its Competition Pack definitely brought out the best in the package.
The same brilliant thing, it should be said, and still part of the reason why the ‘CS’ badge generates such excitement. The E46 M3 was already the small sports coupe par excellence, but the CS really unlocked the magic, sprinkled with some CSL fairy dust for a modest premium to create - you’ve guessed it - the best M3 of its generation. Launched in 2005 , the CS got that car’s faster steering rack, bigger brakes, new springs and the half-way-house M mode for the stability control.
The five-star reviews came flooding in, the manual cars getting lots of predictable love as that transmission was denied to the CSL. The E46 M3 was already great; the CS was even better, and not much more money. Win-win. It’s thought around 241 were sold in the UK, presumably as coming towards the end of production run meant not that many could be made.
The asking price is £27,000; bear in mind that standard, lower mileage M3s are on offer at even more and a CSL could be in excess of £100k, and it looks like decent value. There’s no way you’re going to drive a £100k CSL how it’s meant to be, similarly a 20,000-mile standard car. No such worries in this one; 10 minutes behind that recently retrimmed wheel is all you’ll need to understand why the CS earns so much devotion.
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