Category: Affordable Sports 
Price Range: £50,935 to £50,935
Performance, handling, quality, styling, practicality, value retention
Pricey, not quite as much fun as the original 1986 M3, slightly too vulgar for some. CSL very expensive; SMG transmission flawed; Convertible has less rear room and smaller boot
One of the great performance cars, and so easy to live with
The M3 is not cheap to buy - for a 3-Series at least, if not a supercar - but it should prove easy to sell on. It has retained two-thirds of its original new price (which did, after all, include upgrades in almost every area, from brakes to bodywork to seats) after three years, a very strong residual value, and it should still continue to be desirable as it ages further.
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wrote on 21 09 2007