Rare color combo 2008 BMW M3, Alpine white on Fox red interior with the 6 speed manual transmission.This car is in great condition. Fully serviced and ready for a new driver. Call today for a test drive. First Drive: 2008 BMW M3 Sedan From the February 2008 issue of Motor Trend BMW hasn't sold a four-door M3 in the US since the E36 version in the second half of the 1990s. Back then, purists whined that they'd sold out on the original M3 racing concept, not only by adding two extra doors, but two extra cylinders-going from the E30's legendary 2.3-liter four-cylinder to a new 3.0-liter inline-six. As you know by now, the all-new 2008 M3 has apparently "sold out" once again, annoying purists with not only a return to the sedan (and convertible) but by adding another two cylinders. To the cognoscenti, though, the M3 remains the leader of the pack, the example by which all other sport sedans are judged even if it throbs with a 4.0-liter V-8 heart. Not quite double the displacement of the original E30 M3, this new engine is definitely double the cylinders and more than double the power. Under the power-domed hood, the E90-series V-8 makes 414 horses and 295 lb-ft of torque. With an 8400-rpm redline and 103.5 horses per liter, this is one of the highest-revving and most powerful naturally aspirated V-8s on the planet. Feels like it, too. With the power button on, the M3 can buck like a bull on the streets and demands full attention for smooth shifting. Unlike the M-button on the M5, the discreet button on the M3's center console doesn't give you full power-you have that all the time-it just dramatically sharpens the throttle response. And it doesn't matter where you are; push it at steady throttle on the freeway, and you can feel the car tighten up-clench its glutes, if you will, as though poised to sprint. Ease off and switch off, and the M3 becomes a pretty good city car. In the base model, without the three-mode Electronic Damping Control (EDC) suspension system, the ride is touch tight and jouncy, but in no way of endangering a case of Trader Joe's 2 Buck Chuck and bags of blue corn tortilla chips stashed in the trunk. Different story if you start whomping the M3 on the twisties as we did on Monterey's famously winding Carmel Valley Road. In three turns, any wine and chips in the trunk rapidly become a purple slurry, the M3's monstrous grip launching airborne anything not tied down. This includes Blackberries and iPhones stashed in the M3's inconveniently shallow cubbies. Secure articles before taking off and the M3 is a scream, particularly fully loaded versions with EDC and the M-dynamic system. Double tapping the EDC button so that two lights come on puts the M3 in its stiffest, sportiest suspension mode: perfect for smooth country roads or racetracks, brutal on anything less than well-maintained pavement. I found myself accelerating through a flat squiggly section of three smooth left-rights in a row, so immersed in the experience that only when the road straightened again did I exhale, finally remembering to breathe.