Interestingly, for new cars, the massive rear wing was left in the boot ... In 2003, BMW Motorsport gave us the M3 CSL, of ...

Here was a car designed to rescue the M3’s track-evolved credibility following the disappointingly tubby E36 years. The CSL had a carbonfibre roof and rear diffuser, aluminium doors, a plastic ...

The M3 never changes but my impression of ... automated single-clutch manual elicits thumps from the rear on full-throttle upshifts. The CSL is also a reminder that it took BMW far too long ...

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