Mustang went bonkers. All it had to sell was a badge.
Chevy and Ford used metal posts to make cars.
Mercedes quality dropped a 1000 points.
Lancias were made out of cheese.
British Leyland was making cars to compete with their other cars and not other factories!
Lamborghini was getting inspiration from airplane wings to make their cars.
Datsun decided to change their name; wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't pick a worst name.. Nissan!! Reliant Robbin was one of the fastest selling cars in Northern Europe..
and every factory around the world just simply gave up on health and safety.
Then all of the sudden, a new BMW came out. For the first time, car magazines sold more copies than playboy. The exciting design, the clever interior, the proper use of electronics, sharp upgradable suspension, and best of all the straight v6 engine made the E30 a proper
masterpiece.
The first years of production was very successful; then the BMW CEO was introduced to acid, Chinese sex swing, and electronic music. As a result, he decided to hold up a meeting to combine their Formula 1 Motorsport with their production 3 series. The result was the BMW E30 M3, a production car capable of producing over 250 break horsepower and over 170 miles per hour top speed..
By today's standard, that kind of power is something you can get in a Volvo; but back in the 80's 400bhp was enough for the ideal racing formula car.
E30 was an all around performance masterpiece that was actually a very safe car. E30 redefined what automotive engineering was all about.
Heaven to me is doing laps around the Nurburgring in the E30 M3 with racing blue and red Motorsport colors listening to "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen over and over again.
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