They keep popping up like mushrooms after rain and there’s plenty of them that have mucked up the E30 BMW 3 Series along the way.

These guys however seem to be coming up with a puzzler. They are the Hungarians at TMCars and they came up with a project that’s all CG.

Maybe the showcase is not the best of choices but the project itself looks great. It really does look like a modernized version of the E30 that’s not stupid.

It’s not made out of cardboard and even though it is technically going to be a wide body kit, it still looks pretty good.

The only thing that’s annoying about the design is the rather low key version of the radiator grille. Forget the kidney grilles, it looks like the front of a Lancia in the 90s.

That’s not a lovable look and it’s certainly not worthy of a E30. Everything else seems like it though. TMCars speak nothing about the interior but they praise the engineering of their kit.

According to the Hungarian tuner (that’s a set of words that don’t come together often) they’ve designed it in such a way that you can fit any racing suspension components you may want.

After all, the popularity of the E30 comes from the M3 version being the most successful saloon car racer in history.

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If the BMW M5 got a makeover, why wouldn’t one of the company’s more exciting products get a similar makeover with the equation.

Enter the Manhart MH1 S-Biturbo; a special conversion for the BMW 1 Series M Coupe. This is where things get a little more interesting.

Before we get to the new look let’s consider the amount of people who claim the original car doesn’t get enough of a power boost from BMW.

If the 1 Series would be faster than the M3, things would be seriously problematic. Manhart racing doesn’t have enough time to consider corporate dilemmas so they came up with the Stage 3 idea.

Fiddle is not the word we should use. Let’s say Manhart racing went on to monster the mods on the 3.0 liter turbocharged straight six cylinder.

That’s why the same engine now produces a total of 465 horsepower and 442 ft-lb torque. I wonder if Stage 3 is what they call the boss level.

You get a carbon fiber air box, sports exhaust system with downpipes and stainless steel mufflers. This is where they mixed in the enormous turbocharger.

Further more, the German tuner made sure to upgrade the whole of the cooling system so that all your hooning needs are met without any steam appearing in the equation.

The final bit of the equation was a carbon fiber body kit. This one is painted black and looks seriously evil even while it’s standing still.

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During the process, all sorts of interesting things can happen. There’s police chases, trials and in some cases weird deaths.

We can be thankful that in this case the story isn’t so Hollywood. An Egyptian simply wanted a fast BMW 1 Series without being forced to pay retail on the M Coupe.

Apparently, in Egypt, the star player in BMW’s fun loving sedans costs as much as US $150.000. This is why he bought a 120d Coupe and set about the tuning process.

That four cylinder turbocharged diesel was taken out of the equation and replaced with the BMW M3’s naturally aspirated 4.0 liter V8.

Along side the 420 horsepower engine he threw in the BMW 1 Series M Coupe, brakes, suspension kit and alloy wheels and in the end it ended up costing him just 45.000 dollars.

Once you factor in the original car, the added costs he probably came out on top by a little money on purchase costs but might end up winning a lot more on early taxes.

Since the car is more powerful now and it might not have gained any weight it could actually be just as fun and balanced as the original.

It’s another 1addicts forum success and though his nickname might not suggest it “hatembmw” seems like quite the Bavarian company’s fan.

Also might be fun to know that proper tuning could be done without some sort of organisation that’s been at it since the beginning of time.

Passion is still there.

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