Which is the best M car (EVO magazine)

[Jeroen]

So EVO choose to make a line up of the great M cars throughout BMW's history:

...take 13 M cars and pick a winner.........

M1
E28 M5
E30 M3 sport evolution
E34 M5
E36 M3 evolution
M Coupe
E39 M5
E46 M3 CSL
E60 M5
M6 (new one)
E46 M3 CS
Z4 M Coupe
E92 M3

My best of 4 would be:
1. E30 M3
2. E28 M5
3. M coupé (Z3 M)
4. E46 M3 CSL

Their summary and results:

"How can the boxy, weedily-tyred, four cylinder E30 M3 - even in its
ultimate 238bhp Sport Evolution form - stand up to the finely resolved
savagery of the CSL, the effortless mumbo of the M5, the mid-engined
supercar chops of the M1 and the phenomenal pace, pose and polish of
the E92 M3?

Quite easily as it turns out. Let's make this simple: the original M3
is utterly brilliant. More pointedly, it's utterly brilliant in ways
that the people at M have either forgotten about or, these days, choose to ignore.
Something of the essence of the E30 is present in the CSL and the M1 -
a sense of integration, purity, connectedness and mechanical honesty -
but not in the E92 M3. For all its pace, grip and throttle
adjustability, the new car simply doesn't have the E30's dynamic
subtlety, its loose-limbed agility, its intimacy".

.....

"....it's the E30 that beats them all. It wins because it does more
with less and destroys the idea (apparently at the centre of BMW M
thinking these days) that if power is good, more power must be better."

Rankings:
1. E30 M3
2. E46 M3 CSL
3. E39 M5
4. M1

[7800rpm]

Well, tough question but...

1)M3 E30 for it's role in the history of sportscar and for it's handling
2)M3 E36 3.0 GT Beautyfull car, great upgrade, bad & fast
3)Z3 M Coupé aggressive classic-style always sideways
4)M3 E36 Cabriolet The Beauty
5)M3 E46 CSL One of the Best car ever for lapping the Nurburgring Nordschleife