Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 318Ti represents one of BMW's most infamous mullets—E36 upfront and E30 in back. Let's see if this M-sport spec'd car also comes with a hair-raising price. Have you ...

In the late 1990s, both BMW and Mercedes-Benz tried their luck at bringing a few of their more economical offerings over to our shores from the distant land of Europe. Both failed miserably—the BMW ...

The BMW 3 Series compact was never the best-loved model in the E36 line-up, despite being a bold move for BMW. A smaller hatchback variant of the 3 Series E36 was always part of the plan, but it would ...

While both the badge on the hatch and the description in the ad denote today's Nice Price or No Dice BMW compact as a four-cylinder car, a peek under the hood reveals it to rock six-cylinder M Power.

I thought I was a racer," young Marcus Gottschalk began. "One night I saw an M5 enter the canyons in front of me, so I chased him. I kept pushing my car harder and harder to catch up. Unfortunately, I ...

From the February 1995 issue of Car and Driver. Question: What do a practical hatch­back and a discotheque have in common? Answer: Most Ameri­cans won't go near them. Now, this riddle would not apply ...

Dan Clougher is an automotive journalist and former classic and sports car dealer with hands-on experience across luxury, performance, and collector vehicles. Before joining CarBuzz, he managed his ...

I’ve owned my 1997 BMW 318ti going on 11 years and I’ve taken the odometer past 215,000 miles on the original engine and transmission. I could not have come anywhere near that mile mark and length of ...

For a blend of performance, handling precision, comfort and refinement it’s hard to go past any of the BMWs of the last 20 years, and of course there’s the prestige that comes with the blue and white ...

While BMW is generally credited with inventing the compact prestige car segment with the original 3-Series of the '70s, the concept is in some ways a victim of its success. The fact that the 3-Series ...

Check out real-world situations relating to the BMW 318i 1995 here, particularly what our experts have to say about them. BMW 318i E36 oil and filter change The BMW service intervals are set by engine ...