M3 GRILLED TO PERFECTION?

he last M3 is always better than the new M3 – the new one has lost ‘something’. The last Porsche 911 was a better driver’s car, the new one is too big and has lost ‘something’. Strange, isn’t it, how the regeneration process for any performance icon always seems to result in the misplacement of an attribute so important it can’t actually be named specifically. Mostly, I don’t subscribe to this view. Car companies are clever organisations and they employ clever people who make the new thing better than the old thing – most of the time. But the M3 suffers from the curse of the rose-tinted-spectacle brigade more than any other car. Ever since the E36 M3 replaced the lovely E30 back in 1993, the new version has prompted an unedifying outpouring