{"id":2098532,"date":"2026-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2098532"},"modified":"2026-08-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:00:00","slug":"is-the-new-electric-bmw-m3-a-surefire-hit-or-a-miss-have-your-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2098532","title":{"rendered":"Is the new electric BMW M3 a surefire hit… or a miss? Have your say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ollie Kew: \u201cThis is the right side of innovative. Handsome, even\u201d<\/h3>\n

I might have to join BMW\u2019s designers in their witness protection programme for this, but I like it. Could\u2019ve been a whole Luce<\/a> worse. Cover the badges and it looks like a BMW<\/a>. There\u2019s a tasteful amount of historic nods without going retro or pastiche. And all the while, the haters can be pacified by the fact there\u2019s still going to be a similar looking version with a straight six behind that shark snout.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Compared to some of the utter horrors perpetrated by the BMW design haus this decade (iX, XM, 2 Series Gran Coupe, M4, 7 Series, X7…) this is the right side of innovative. Handsome, even. And more interesting \u2013 more experimental \u2013 than the Taycans and EQEs of the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Greg Potts: \u201cI can\u2019t say I\u2019m spying many links to the neat little E30\u201d<\/h3>\n

BMW\u2019s M department has thrown the clean, Bauhaus-spec Neue Klasse design book in the bin and gone all in with, well… everything<\/em> for its first electric M3. I\u2019ve seen London buses narrower than that diffuser, and I can\u2019t say I\u2019m spying many links to the neat little E30<\/a>. Still, at least the interior will appeal to those who used to wrap the slats of their kidney grilles in M Sport colours.<\/p>\n

On that note, presumably the combustion-engined car will get a reworked front end for cooling purposes, and hopefully BMW sees fit to stick on a normal set of wheels at the same time. It\u2019s that version that everyone will buy too, even if the production EV does get 1,000bhp.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ollie Kew: \u201cThis is the right side of innovative. Handsome, even\u201d I might have to join BMW\u2019s designers in their witness protection programme for this, but I like it. Could\u2019ve been a whole Luce worse. Cover the badges and it looks like a BMW. There\u2019s a tasteful amount of historic nods without going retro or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2098532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2098532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2098532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2098532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2098532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}