BMW Z3 M COUPE
’98 TO ’02
RIGHT NOW, you can order more than 30 different BMW models with an M badge on them. Back in 1998 it was a different story. The Garching plant found the cupboard surprisingly bare. With no M5 model on the market, and the M-built 850CSi similarly deceased, focus instead switched to the ageing E36 M3 and the new Z3 based M Roadster being assembled at BMW’s Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, neither of which were, at the time, particularly lauded iterations of the M-car lineage.
The M Roadster
