Which is the better " Drivers " car do you think ?

I remember Sean Bicknell having his and then him saying how it taught him how to be a quicker driver as he had to make up for a lack of power , as there are quite a few E36 owners here which would make the better car to learn how to " Drive "

Taking a quick look on the Trader #

Cheapest E30 is 6K and on Vcar ......... Cheapest E36 3K and that is for what appears to be a looked after example but with High miles .

Is the E30 really worth double albeit with its Cult status ?

 

E30 is legend, but IMo the car doesnt justify the price. Id atke the E36 everyday.............hence the search has been on for a fair few months to find a good un.

 

if you can put up with lhd I would personally take the e30...

far too many replica e36s.

never driven either, but just love the e30 m3s

 

I used to have an E30 M3 years ago!

Great looks and even better handling BUT if you buy a standard example beware that this is a car from the eighties so relatively speaking it has quite a bit of bodyroll, the brakes aren't that good and it doesn't have that much power.

Having said that I'd have another everyday!

 

I've heard an awful lot of people say that the E30 M3 isn't massive fun as it doesn't have enough power mate!

May even have been Porkie that said this as didn't Sean Bicknell have one?

 

Here's the review of the E30 M3 from 5th Gear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaK7KhQADSs

Interesting to see how they compare to modern cars but then it's more about the driving experience rather than raw speed in the E30 M3

 

I think Lee also said that driving the M3 for a year helped him become a better driver , as to make up for the lack of power he developed better corner speed and was better on the brakes

 

an e30 m3 is seriously underpowered and doesnt have the go to match the show imo. 195 or 215 bhp evo models dont cut it these days although they do look better than the e36 and even though i have an e30 if i was buying an m3 id go for the e36.handles better with much more power.thats progress id considered cossie ing an e30 m3 but i wouldnt have been able to leave the house for the bmw purist lynchmobs

 

Proper old skool classic! Love them mate, and can imagine they are would be a riot on track to learn to drive in. As you said Deneo it isnt all abut raw power as most people think .

Been in one but never driven one and seemed like a right laugh.

 

id considered cossie ing an e30 m3 but i wouldnt have been able to leave the house for the bmw purist lynchmobs [/quote]




my brother has an e36 m3evo and he says the same about the purists on the bm forums,,they dont like anything done to them other than a polish!


he has ignored them and bought a carbon filter,stainless exhaust and just bought bbs lm's on thursday(i would have thought copy's but not seen them yet)

 

some of the bmw purists on the site im on are truly blinkered and look on their cars as motoring perfection and unimprovable.if bmw designed it like that it must be the perfect way. they forget the cars are sometimes 20 years old and built to compromise budgets and things move on

 

driven both e30 and e36


e30 anyday!

 

fuzzy, e30zone have a fair share of twats on there, remember gug? was my old car

anyway e30 is track ready but the e36 is more livable everyday

depends on what you want, hard choice i rekon

 

wasnt that the 2.7 ? owned by karan at one point?or is that you? the new owner is asking about the head atm on the zone as its just blown the headgasket a day after he bought it

 

yeah that one

i sold it after i got it off him, to some nice bloke from ireland and he now sold it on

 

Ive batterd Seans old E30 round Donny,many a time,and i can honestley say,for a old car,its one of the BEST ive EVER drove!!!!

Pete..

 

e30 m3 is more fun, if it has the power

 

E30 all day long..not realy a fan of the E36

 

E30 M3 for me my dad has one love it alot.

From what i've read E30 handles much better and has better thrills. E36 may have more power but it is quite a bit heavier there for decent power to weight ratio.

And fuzzy the E36 would not come close to handling aswell with out suspension work.

Dovboy could you tell me where he got the BBS LMS from my dad is looking for a set at the moment.

Stuff what the purists say its your decision.

 

If you're buying one, have a go in both and see which you like the feel of. There was an article in Autocar comparing an Evo Sports E30 to an E36 M3 - 2 guys, both preferred different. Steve Soper preferred the E36 as he said if he wanted to get up early for a drive he'd be wanting to go fast

 

Buy the E30 M3 and let me turbo convert it!

Last one made a reliable 330 bhp on stock internals

Latest S14 build in my workshop runs a GT30 and should be good for 450 bhp.

 

Was that martins car estoril blue?

I know of someone aiming for 450hp with his M3.

 

Thats right. We share a workshop and i map his cars.

Who else is aiming for 450 bhp then?

 

Cool shame he wrote it off tho

His names dave i think he dropped a valve at brands hatch.

 

have owned both and E30 is better drivers car, but for a day to day driver, performance included the E36 is miles ahead inspite of what the so called experts all say.

I reckon the E30 M3 is one of the most over hyped cars, buy one and make up your own mind, I did and I sold it soon after.... my e36 would kick its arse in every respect apart from feedback from the steering but I can live with that.

 

Could well have done mate, seems logical!

 

Did you get your Merc 190 2.5-16 in the end?

 

unfortunately it never came in so still looking for a 190 Cossie

 

Did you see the article I posted for you?