EU Market Find: BMW Individual Glacier Green E36 M3 Cabriolet

What: 1996 BMW M3 Cabriolet
Color:  BMW Individual Glacier Green Metallic (metallic UNI; 335; BMW)
VIN: Unknown
Mileage: 18,500 km
Price: € 119,950
CarFax: N/A
Window Sticker: N/A
Location: Driving Passion, s’-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Dealer Listing: Link

Yes, you read that right. An E36 M3 Cabriolet is six figures, and not just six figure but six figures in Euros. Is it worth it? Well, like many cars of this nature, if you have to ask then you likely aren’t in the running for it. Even still, we think it might be and here’s why.

First, it’s a poster child for BMW Individual. On the outside is subtle yet different Glacier Green Metallic, an ever-so-slightly tinted silver. Inside, it’s got extended Hazelnut Nappa nappa leather that would have had to have been special ordered.

Beyond that, the car has many options for the period, including seat heating, dual climate control, electric exterior mirrors, automatically dimming interior mirror and multi-function display.

There’s one more thing. The car has just 18,500 km on the odometer (11,495 miles), and presents in the photos as if new.

Yes, as perhaps the most subtle of the M3 lineage, we know the E36 isn’t the most desirable M3. To our eye, that only makes it desirable in its understatement… in the way a 964 Carrera RS sort of looks like any other Carrera 2 of its time. This was the standard operating procedure in the 1990s, and this M3 Cabriolet pulls it all off beautifully.