The BMW M3 CSL is the closest incarnation to what is arguably the best performance car BMW ever produced both on the track and the road – the first generation M3. With only 1383 M3 CSLs ever produced, values can only go up.
As classic BMWs go, the 2002 is the one to have – it has the largest following the world over. Nick Coetzee has been restoring his 2002tii for the last ten years. It’s hard then to believe that Nick had no interest in BMWs till he bought this 2002 ten years ago.
So finally the day has come where we can measure up these legendary box-shaped beauties. This has to be one of the BMW showdowns of the century and who would have thought it would happen under African skies.
We step back forty years into the annals of history and take a look at the early days at the M Division and its ground-breaking Turbo then leap forward four decades to the first bona fide turbocharged M car.
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