MAY 2002 BMW M3-R

If owning a mega-scarce BMW was your ambition and handing over almost $80K to get it wasn’t an issue then this M3-R is perhaps still decorating your garage. Just 15 of these Aussie-only M3s were produced, under the guidance of the late Frank Gardner and in hope of giving the front-running Porsches and Mazda’s RX7 SPs some hurry-up in GT Production races. Anything non-essential went into the skip to save weight, while suspension and mechanical tweaks helped boost the asking price to almost $190,000. Whoever sold this car took a very big bath but recent sales have seen asking prices dragged even lower