Donovan Brockway—owner, builder, and driver of this 1,000hp BMW E30 Formula DRIFT machine—is a lot like that young Kirk. Except for the girl. Don Brockway always gets the girl.

Taking a chassis from an older 1987 BMW E30 325i and fitting it with a Nissan RB25DET inline-six might sound like blasphemy, but we certainly approve ...

So what would it take to transform a regular BMW into the tire-slaying battleship you see here? Well, the GSR M3 started life as a humble 2005 325i, but was converted to M3 spec.

American Tuned Believe it or not, this is a street-legal 1,200bhp E36 BMW drift machine It started out life as a humble 325i. It is now a very, very different car: watch new American Tuned here ...

Street racing, as well as street drifting, seems to be rather popular over in Sweden, with this E30 BMW being the most recent example of this ...

The E30 actually placed third in this test, also falling behind another unlikely competitor, the rarely remembered Sterling 827S.