M3 (E46) technical data
Performance
Max speed
155 miles/h (250 km/h)
0-100 km/h
4.8 seconds
0-160 km/h
11.0 seconds
0-200 km/h
16.8 seconds
0-300 km/h
-
Quarter mile
13.2 seconds
0-100-0 mph
-
Engine
Power
252 kw (338hp / 343 ps)
Torque
365 Nm (269 Lb-Ft)
Displacement
3.2 liters
Engine type
R6
Engine location
front
General data
Gearbox
6 speed
Drive
rear
Mass
1565 kilograms (3443 lbs)
Weight distribution
49.9 / 50.1
Year of introduction
2000
Home country
Germany
Calculations
Power to Weight ratio
216.17 hp/tonne
Power per liter
79 kw/liter
Fastestlaps.com stats
FL Rank
Position - 121/1312, 11 points
Page views
6622
Car submitted by
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Community comments (11)
Georg 12/05/07, 12:39:12
linksy 16/02/08, 01:21:32
that 0-200km/h time is wrong, its for the E92 M3!
Georg 17/02/08, 14:20:46
Georg3 26/03/08, 04:00:37
Please delete Tsukuba lap time - 1:05.439. There is no indication what spec it
is running on. The lap time was set during competition and this may be a
modified M3.
Driftkikker 09/05/08, 09:54:58
0-100 is 5.2 sec (BMW SPECS).
Maybe this is us spec or 0-60 'mph'?
Georg 09/05/08, 10:03:27
Driftkikker 09/05/08, 10:10:11
Ok! I thought only official figures are used here :)
Hope you know what i mean with the 5,2 sec.
BMW 09/05/08, 12:49:43
The 5,2 figure is right.
That's the official 0-100 time according to the books.
However the M3 engine name is not R6 but S54.
FastestLaps 09/05/08, 16:27:40
BMW 09/05/08, 17:18:11
Ok, i was confused because there's also an BMW engine that's named R6.
But i get the point haha.
Thanks for clearify.
Georg 14/07/08, 11:45:47
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0-200km/h 16.8s auto motor und sport 1/2003
In fastestlaps.com we don't have a seperate field for engine names/codenames.
What we have is a field titled "Engine type" and "R6" is type of engine - not a
name. R6 stands for 6 cylinders in a (R)ow or you can also call it "inline 6".
