Jeremy Clarkson: "This [The M3] is the best car, and always will be, and there's no point in ever thinking otherwise."

M3 GTS is a bit special and another winner from Henry Catchpole. The guy is even good at the voice over parts, slowly turning into the motoring equivalent of Sir David Attenborough!

M3 V8 and M5/M6 V10 are just the absolute best. Would love to see those engines come back in the new cars.

The E92 M3 was the last version with a true N/A Motorsport engine soul. After this you were left with turbo 6 cylinder motors with piped in sound which no longer were the core of the GT racing for BMW. If you can find a nice one right now I can’t imagine it won’t go up in value over the next 5-10 year.

Crazy how much effort BMW went through this, making a stroker version of the S65 V8 just for this car

The E9X M3 will go down as the greatest M3 of all time. I LOVE ALL M3S but the E9X is something special.

Can we have a series on the Black series Mercs next?

You should extend the scope of this series to every factory M3 models ever made and I am totally serious

Henry is like a perfect 50/50 Harry Potter and wolverine

E92 hits the sweet spot of M3s. Better transmission than the e46 in both manual and automatic guise oh and that high revving V8 helps! Forget the GTS, you can have 95% as much fun in a 'normal' e92 M3 for a fraction of the cost. These cars are on the endangered species list, experience them while you can, they're special.

Coming home after a day of failed exams, and finding the latest M3 Masterpieces video is just perfect. Thus, I thank you kindly Carfection...

Owning and tracking my E92 M3, loving everything about it, I was excited to watch this video. I love Henry and Carfection as I often attest to in comments. But guys come on, the power button adds 100hp? In an E60 M5 yes, in the M3 it only improves throttle response by making the peddle actuate earlier in its travel. This has the best engine and gearbox combo of any M3/M4. It’s a shame the review felt a tad flat missing key details. The car itself may not have been homologated, but the P65 group of engines based on the S65 where used extensively in motorsport. Still have loved the series so far.

Fantastic film, would love to see something like this for other cars

I drive the regular M3 E92, I smile everytime I look at it!

Now the E92 is where is its at. The engine makes loves to your ears and the chassis is a stroke of genius. Don't hesitate on buying because it will most definitely reward you as it did with me.

Still remember Vicki throwing around an identical specimen on Fifth Gear when this first came out. Don't know if it's the beautiful spec or the nostalgia of ripping around in this in NFS, but to me, this is the most beautiful M3 till date. Although the E30 is a very close competitor, with the history associated with it, I don't see many people actually pushing them on a track.

My favorite generation M3. Love this car.

I was driving this very car 48 hours ago. Special car, engine is a masterpiece.

This was the true pinnacle of bmw M engineering. After this, it all went same turbo engine everywhere, more led headlight design than true dynamic power delivery of a motor, more building "M" package lines with carbon bits than truly building 1 exemplary M car like the old days...

Having a 2012 E92 I can say this GTS is my dream car hands down.

The best m3 ever

My dream car. Too bad it costs about $200,000 in today’s money. But man, in almost every review of the e92 GTS I’ve seen, they always said the same thing, how much fucking fun it is. What an accomplishment this thing was.

RIP M3 V8.

This is what i was waiting for well sort of... reg E92?...... Love a loud shouty V8 and in 4K

One of my favourite sounding V8s until today!

Henry you forgot to mention , the eight individual throttle bodies , hydraulic steering and the same DCT box that is fitted to the 458 italia. 👍👍

The last great M3s. What a crackling car.

Fantastic Vid guys! Henry note the e90 CRT four door saloon also had this 4.4l V8!

Best M3

In this generation my favourite is the 4 door saloon CRT. 😍

Greatest Car Ever Produced

The current M4 GTS also has a apologetic rear wing, seems like a consistent modern BMW trend, we will see what the future holds.

Absolute favourite!!! Couldn't wait for this vid

Sat in this exact press car at the BMW training centre, instructor could help but show a cold start and blip the throttle a touch WOW!!

Best channel for production

So the power button in the GTS actually changes something with power? In the standard car its just sharpening throttle response. I ask because at 5:32 I cannot tell if you're just being cheeky

I've met an American chap that owned one about 7 years ago on the Cabot Trail. He was with a party of trackday enthousiasts with Lotus's, Ferraris and Porsches. He was definitely the leader of the group and I joined them on my GSX-R for a thrilling ride around the Island of Cape Breton. Good times.

I don't know what it is about British documentaries, but they are so well made that you truly feel you are there with the presenter. I would probably watch a whole documentary series about Victorian era kitchen pantry installation procedures if a Brit made a documentary about it, they probably have though. Nonetheless, great video and review of BMW's best! Thank you.

CRT with a manual gearbox and 4.1 diff is pretty much my perfect M3.

🔥🔥🔥WHAT A SERIES!!!!!🔥🔥🔥

i already like this and it hasn't even started! LOL This channel gets better and better!

Akrapovic exhaust!!!!!💯💯💯

Henry, loving the series so far, gives me a reason to look forward to Monday’s 😊 In commenting on the homologation backstory, you may find that the e92 is most similar to the e36, where the e36 M3 GT and 318iS homologated an aero kit for the race cars in GT and Super Touring, the apologetic rear wing on the e92 M3 GTS looks to have appeared on the M3 GT4 for its second season out, though I can’t find the old GT4 catalog I had downloaded to indicate that at the moment. Keep up the great work!

Induction noise 💓

A man really enjoying his work!

Need a comparison between this and the CRT

The Noise it makes ❤

Power button only changed the throttle response in the E92 M3, didn’t add power nor did it change the exhaust note.

Always preferred the rarer 4dr CRT M3

Great film, love this series! Thank you. I'd love to see a similar series recounting the history of various particularly "special" Porsche cars.

For me, this might not be the more pure m3 but it’s definitely my favorite

No matter how exiting the cars are, this guy sure knows how to kill the edge of it!!!! Jesus, did someone did right before this vid?

Does anyone else cruise autotrader or something similar while watching these vids or is it just me, lol.

Really loving this series.

Not sure about the extra 100 bhp from the sport button. I know that on my e90 M3 it just sharpens up the throttle response. Mega vid Mr Catchpole :)

I assume that the "power button gives another 100hp" was tongue in cheek?

The last of naturally aspirated, the best.

This video makes my E92 328i coupe and I very happy

I love the way you talk about cars. It would be fun if you would do a show about Elizabeth Hurley. That would be fun...

Thank you for this great series!

What about the M3 CRT that you reviewed at EVO? I seem to remember that you said it was the ultimate e9x M3.

Now they just turn the boost up... there’s no passion in these cars anymore. The E92 was the best M3 hands down. F80 is very capable it’s just so boring in comparison

What a great series, hopefully this is one of many more series to come!!

Better than e46! And More Beautifull!

Spot on again Henry! Great work 👍

I beg you guys to do the M5's please!

This sounded like thunder going around the Nurburgring!

Great vid, thank you Henry!

Hope there will be a final épisode with laptimes just to understand progress between each gen

Love the M3 GTS,M3 CSL and R34 So sad that we can’t buy these cars in the states,gotta go to Europe :(

Another well detailed video. Can’t wait for you guys to complete this and jump on the ///M5s edition. That would be sick

Awesome driving 😂 going sideways in a very nice car, pretty ballzy

Will we see the E90 M3 CRT? The rarest of the rare!

Great video! Henry is excellent, too.

I still remembered this car being featured in NFS The Run

The m3 gets better as each one comes out.

Thanks for this nice vidéo ! Love the sound and filming, though I would have expected more sliding, especially under such a bad weather...M3s love this weather ! I have driven 3 M3 e30, e36 3L, z3m 3,2L, m3 csl and now owning a e92 M3 manual. I loved the CSL for the look, chassis and noise. But in my humble opinion the E92 M3 gather all the best of the previous generations. The chassis is amazing without modifications, the engine is awesome for its noise and throttle response, steering feel is by far better than e36 and e46. It is only a bit heavy and fuel consumption requires shares in a petrol station...

What's the next series like this going to be on? Love it

i remember seeing one of these parked at the bmw dealer in my town. it was beautiful. too bad it cost a stupid amount of money

My favorite car of all time from any manufactuer

This guy could save UK's top gear.

The flyby at 5:50 🤤

Remember being taken out in that gts with its owner, a true gentleman

Damn thats a good looking car

Brilliant work thank you...PLEASE do the same series for the M5 :)

This car wasn’t even close as a GT3 rival... but it is still a impressive car

Very nice but the the CSL is the undisputed King. That is all.

Looks like you have the M3 CS as the last special version. Why not just use the M4 GTS? Thats the true successor to this lineup even tho it's called 4 instead of 3.

Wish you’d picked an M3 CRT

Smile on Henry's face in the picture. Enough to make me wait for the video here

I wish Carfection will do a similar series but for the M5

Is he confused with the m5 v10 power button ? Pretty sure the m3s never gave additional power... 🤷🏼‍♂️

I'm just imagining telleing my son in the future about those masterpieces ...

Legend!

Omg its so clean only if i can ever afford one just one

Truly beautiful bruiser of a car, but that were stupidly expensive for what they were. I'd still have one in a heart beat though!!!

Ahh... Perfection...

Here we go boys

Very nice

Damn this series... 😍