The glorious days of the German tour car championship are long gone. Nevertheless, it is always worth taking a moment to remember. This M3 comes from the gold era of the E30 in DTM, completely with a Gurney flap. It performed spectacularly at the weekend at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed. The racing machine sounds absolutely wonderful free of emissions and noise regulations that strangle today’s street cars.
If you followed DTM at the time, you will probably know the story of this car. The Venezuelan racing driver Johnny Cecotto drove this M3, who was wearing the number 7 race strength and showed a fina paint. In honor of his achievements, BMW started a special M3 E30 edition with its name. With the impacts of M3 Evolution II, only 480 units and the 2.3-liter S14 engine were tuned to 215 hp. Entertaining fact: The four-banger was supplied with body-colored valve covers and intake manifold.
This racing car is downright DTM kings and a suitable way to celebrate 50 years of the 3 Series. BMW brought all seven generations of his legendary sports sedan to Goodwood, but this could simply be the most sounding of everyone. Wealthy enthusiasts would like to pay an obscene amount for an internal Restomod based on an original E30, but BMW has not yet had this niche, at least not yet. Nevertheless, it completely redesigned an M1 for the Kith founder Ronnie Fieg, so never say it. If there is a market for A 750,000 M4 €, we are confident that deep people would pay A similar amount for a “new” M3 E30.
In 2025 what you can buy is not the M4 GT4 or the more expensive GT3, but the new M2 race. Like the DTM-Spec M3, it has a four-cylinder engine and relatively compact shares, but the iconic styling of the E30 is missing. It largely maintains the controversial design of the G87, and there is the possibility that it will not be revered in 30 years. Nevertheless, BMW M continues its decades of connection between motorsport and street cars.
Source: Goodwood Festival of Speed
