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We’ve been eulogizing a lot of cars lately and while it’s painful for us to look at these wrecked machines – let alone write about them – we just can’t help ourselves. A car crash, especially of the supercar variety, is about as big a news to us as space exploration is to NASA.

That being said, this latest car crash we’ve unearthed involves a mint green – and finely-tuned up – BMW E36 M3 that was the pride and joy of the owner (his name is Paul, so we’ve been told). In fact, Paul loved it so much that he spent nearly four years working on it and making it look like as attention-grabbing as any BMW E36 we’ve seen in recent times.

But as is the case with most car crashes, Paul’s BMW E36 ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time after a distracted driver lost control of his car and plowed into the back of the E36, leaving the car’s rear end in a total state of shambles.

We feel really bad for Paul. We really do. But if there’s any consolation, we really give you a ton of props for what you did with your car – that is until someone decided to give it a facelift it never needed.

Distracted driver crashes into souped-up BMW E36 M3 originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 26 February 2010 12:30 EST.

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A series of BMWs recently took to the Salzburgring racetrack in Austria to run a few laps in the circuit. Now, normally this wouldn’t come off as groundbreaking news but these Beamers are not your ordinary BMWs; they all come from the prestigious M lineage of BMWs.

Running down the list of those present, it looks like the M fleet was well-accounted for, including the new X6 M, the M3, the M5, and even the M3 GT4.

Now, we can all sit on our chairs and daydream about the day when we can call ourselves ‘owners’ of one of these mouth-watering vehicles, or we can sit back and enjoy the video. It’s your call,

Video: BMW M fleet laps Salzburgring track in Austria originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 28 October 2009 08:00 EST.

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BMW is keeping its cards close to its vest as far as the next-generation M5 is concerned, but it doesn’t mean that the creative types out there won’t have a jolly good time in giving their own visual interpretations of what the new M5 would look like.

From what we know, though, the new M5 is expected to have a 4.4-liter V8 twin-turbo engine that can churn out as much as 580 horsepower.

In addition to that, BMW has given the new M5 some pretty nifty features including a dual-clutch transmission, side air vents, a carbon fiber roof, and a more aggressive aerodynamic package that should make the new M5 even more imposing and intimidating than it’s predecessors.

Artist renders next-generation BMW M5 originally appeared on topspeed.com on Monday, 8 February 2010 09:00 EST.

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If you’re riding shotgun on a car whose driver is performing a donut, you might want to be prudent enough to fasten your seatbelt. If you’re the daring and bold type who thinks that seatbelts reduce the element of ‘fun’, then, at the very least, try making sure that your doors are closed.

Apparently, the passenger of this donut-performing E36 BMW M3 didn’t read those memos. In fact, he probably thought that he could get away without wearing his seatbelts AND opening the door as the car was spinning both at the same time.

Turns out, he was wrong on both counts.

Continued after the jump.

Video: Seatbelts are a good idea when riding shotgun on a donut-performing M3 originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:00 EST.

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