So what does 400 Kilowatts mean to you? Well how about 850 lb-ft of torque? It means a Bimmer M3 that eats trannies alive and is not adversely affected by the altitude at Pikes Peak. This is no Leaf! Matt Farah of the Drive checks it out after the jump!

This photo comes to us from photographer, and Ford designer, Jonathan Szczupak’s website: Between the White Lines. We don’t know too much about the classic BMW except that it’s a 2002 shot at the Nurburgring last year.  Regardless, we love the shot and wanted to share it with you. Enjoy!

That’s right, on May 11th, BMW broke the previous Guiness World Record for Longest Drift, almost seven miles, by 44 miles! The new record, set by an M5, now stands at 51.3 miles! That’s like the time you drifted straight from Manhattan to your folk’s posh pad in Fairfield, CT. I say, well done, Chauncey. [...]

BMW accidentally posted official images of the facelifted 2014 M5 on its website, when the configurator was updated ahead of schedule. The current M5, which initially went on sale in 2011, receives very mild updates. The grille is modified to incorporate double vertical slats (like on the M6), rather than single ones; the headlights are [...]

“It’s a good job,” says Sabine Schmitz, without a hint of understatement. In case you’ve been on Mars for the last twenty years and returned this morning, Ms. Schmitz is employed as the Nurburgring’s “taxi” driver and ferries people around the ‘Ring in a BMW M5. In the video, she discusses growing up in her [...]

This car is a rolling example of why high quality detail work is worth it. Normal people might be okay with just washing their car and (maybe) slapping a coat of wax on it. That alone will bring your car’s look above the riff-raff of daily drivers, but if you want it to look like [...]

Seems like E30 mania has hit fever pitch, and clearly the E30 M3 is the pinnacle of that generation. Values of these cars are starting to get out of control. So is the E30 M3 really all that? Mike Spinelli decided to find out, and rounded up a bunch of E30 experts to discuss this [...]