Tales of the unexpected

Tuned cars are never exactly what people expect them to be at first glance, especially to people who aren’t into modified cars. But this car, Scott Smith’s awesome E36 BMW coupé, takes the usual clichéd expression of ‘with a twist’ and seriously maxes it out, as almost nothing is like you’d expect.

It’s a very fast E36, but is it an M3? Nope, it’s a diesel. So a 330d engine? Nope, it’s not even a BMW engine; it’s a Mercedes. So it’s got the famous OM606 6cyl engine? No, the 5cyl OM605. It can’t be that powerful though, can it, it’s a diesel!? It’s 450bhp! But diesel’s don’t rev. Well this one pulls hard all the way to 6500rpm thanks to a big BorgWarner S366SX turbo. So it’s laggy then with that massive turbo? No, it spools up super fast. Okay, we think you get the idea now. This thing blows all the