There have been many superb BMW specials over the years ... ruins their appeal. The E46 M3 CSL is one of those icons, a car that was defined not just by its driving experience, but the irritating ...

the E46 CSL is a drum-taut, hard-muscled object lesson in understated aesthetic warfare. Depending on who you listened to at the time, it was either BMW’s honest attempt to fully restore the M3 ...

You figure after two different tuners had squeezed the M5's 500 HP V10 into an E92 BMW 3-series ... lineup would be the previous generation E46 M3. A CSL no less. Performing the swap is a feat ...

It seems BMW has figured out that people will pay more for increased agility that doesn't necessarily include monster horsepower. Now that we know the M3 CSL will always have a place in the Bimmer ...