How to make the perfect M3

摘要

A new BMW M3 is set to arrive in 2014, but what should it be like? Steve Sutcliffe puts three of its predecessors through their paces at Brands Hatch to find the perfect ingredients. Replacing the BMW M3 is "the biggest challenge of them all", according to the president of BMW's M division, Dr Friedrich Nitschke. "The M3 is our core," he says, "so the new version must be outstanding if it is to better the current model." But as anyone who has driven the latest car, with its thumping V8 engine, will attest, achieving this will be no simple task.