Buy it!!,
If I could only have one car in the game it would be the BMW M3, the GTR is a nice car and will get upto 570bhp modded by I find that the CSL version is a nicer car to drive once tuned and adjusted.
It's the one car I have to buy every time i see it and so far i have 35 M3's split between the 04 M3, CSL's and GTR's, probably only really use 7-8 for online racing but my favourite CSL has 502 bhp and has clocked up well over 500 laps of the Nurburgring already.
Get the setup right and the handling is just awesome and can outdrive quite a few cars it really shouldn't be able to keep up with.
It's also very versatile, the CSL can be reduced to a BHP limit of 211 all the way back upto 500bhp so makes it good to use for online street races.
It's the only manufacturer that I actively wanted to own every car in the game which I now do even though I'd traded for a 4.5 million V12 LMP car as one came up in my UCD, so i ended up buying that one too lol.
MY GOD!
I was feeling BMW guilty of having 8 of them plus the race car...
You guys made me feel like a damn rookie
Need to get MOAR! MOAR! MY PRECIOUS! BIMMER!
Yeah, having multiple ones its a good Idea... haven't tried the GTR road version yet, but in GT4 I could really tell the difference between the CSL and the GTR... the GTR have more grunt of course, but its a bit front heavy... can't wait to see how it is on GT5.
The CSL was my favorite car on GT4, and looks like it's on GT5 too... last night just clocked a 6:53 on the ring in racing softs... with room to improve... the car simply do what my mind wants... its a damn extension of my hands and mind... its... amazing... best of all, its very "safe". LOTS of grip when you need it and when it drifts its very controlable and mild... It's really a blast...
I've got 3 regular M3s, one 370hp Lagunaseca blau, one with 450hp specially painted in the Dakargelb (my favorite E36 color, but as we don't have it... the E46 will do its place) and one in matte black fully tuned @ 475hp (looks FABULOUS!).
Then there's the 5 CSLs:
1 with 380hp in silver chrome (looks kinda cool, better then I expected.)
1 completelly stock, with 4.000km in the silbergrau mettalic (the stock, collectable one)
1 white for "street racing" with around 400hp
1 420hp, "lapis lazulli" painted (its the color from the LF-A, and it looks STUNNING!)
And my online racing project one, with 500hp, fully tuned in white + wing. It'll be my new streetcar battle champion, replacing my good and old Evora wich was starting to show its age, not being able to keep up with a friend's Scuderia... The CSL will have to do it!
Can't wait to get my first GTR. If any of you guys got one to spare, please think about this poor M3 freak that can't find one in the UCD! We can make a nice deal