40 years of the BMW 3 Series

Four decades and five models later, the compact executive still thrills, says Geraldine Herbert Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to lead a British political party, Charles Haughey returned from the political wilderness and Jaws was the film everyone was talking about; the year was 1975. It was also the year that motorists were driving the first-ever BMW 3-Series from car showroom forecourts. Known internally as the E21, the...