The E46 M3 is overpriced and you already know it — change my mind. Everyone treats the E46 like it's the holy grail of M cars while the E92 sits there with a screaming 4.0L S65 V8 that revs to 8,300 rpm and nobody bats an eye. You're paying a nostalgia premium on the E46 to deal with subframe cracking AND rod bearing anxiety, when the E92 only has one of those problems. The S54 inline-6 is legendary, sure, but the S65 is literally a detuned F1-derived V8 shoved into a daily-drivable chassis and somehow that's the "lesser" M3? The E46 crowd will come for me on this, and honestly the E46 does win on steering feel and raw analog simplicity — I'm not delusional. But when clean E46 M3s are commanding $25-35K and you can grab a solid E92 for similar or less money with more power, a more rigid chassis, and better crash safety, the math stops making sense. You're buying a poster car, not a driver's car. Do rod bearing preventive maintenance on either platform, budget $1,500-2K for the job, ...