16 Dec 2013, 09:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica // Back in the day, the BMW E36 Compact was the car you’d pick if you needed anything like what a 1 Series Coupe offers you today. It was small, cheap an easy ...

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 ...

Probably because few BMW aficionados fancied the three-door hatchback derivation of the storied 3 Series, its Compact version lived and died over just a couple of generations. Compare that with the ...

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 ...

When BMW was getting the E36 3 Series ready, it also wanted to have a smaller version to compete with the hot hatches of the day. Thus, the E36 Compact was born. The body style was primarily designed ...

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 ...

If you like living on the edge, you're going to love this car. It's an E36-generation 3 Series Compact that's had its original inline-four swapped out for a V-12 from an 8-Series. Equipped with ...